Category: How Do You Get Lupus
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How Do You Get Lupus from Medications?
You can’t get lupus from medications, but taking a new medication or stopping a a lupus medication can cause you to have lupus flares. A lupus flare is when you are experiencing lupus symptoms that come for a brief period of time and then go away. Some doctors like to use the term remission, but…
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Do you Get Lupus Symptoms During Birth?
If you already have the lupus disease, the extra stress and increased production of hormones during pregnancy can cause lupus symptoms to flare, possibly causing complications while giving birth. Risks to the Baby The risks to the child caused by a mother’s lupus disease are minimal. Chances of passing lupus to a child by genetics…
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How Do You Get Healthy with Lupus?
When you get lupus, the last thing on your mind may be strenuous exercise. You’re tired, your joints ache and overall your body feels worn out. When you get lupus, you lose the energy you once had and you just want to rest. But research shows that people who get lupus that exercise frequently avoid…
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How Does the Environment Affect Lupus?
Your genes may increase the chances that you get lupus, but an environmental trigger is required to put the disease in action. Meaning, there are circumstances when the environment around you causes a “dormant” lupus disease to arise. There is no proof that you get lupus from the environment directly, only that the environment triggers…
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How Do You Get Lupus from Genetics?
Many researchers agree that in fact you can get lupus from genetics or at least there is a greater chance that you will get lupus. How you get lupus from genetics has not been answered. Review your family’s medical history. If there is someone in your immediate family that has lupus, you may want to…
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Lupus Flares
A lupus flare is a time when your lupus symptoms worsen from the lupus disease becoming more active. These flares will come and go. Lupus flares can cause different symptoms. You may experience rashes and swelling one week and no symptoms of lupus the next. Flares can occur without you even knowing it. The lupus…