Tag: lupus
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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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Anthera Pharmaceuticals Completes Interim B-Cell Analysis of PEARL-SC Study
Positive preliminary results for new lupus drug currently enrolling in Phase 3 clinical trial Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs to treat serious diseases associated with inflammation, today announced positive interim biomarker data from the PEARL-SC phase 2b clinical study in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Full story
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Lupus, Sex, and Relationships: How to Keep Intimacy Alive
WebMD discusses how chronic pain and fatigue associated with lupus can affect your sexual relationships — and what to do about it.
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Vitamin D Shows Early Promise Against Lupus
In the first study of its kind, high doses of vitamin D were safe and appeared to temper some of the destructive immune system responses believed to cause lupus.
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Lupus Fatigue: Causes and Treatment Tips
WebMD talks about ways to combat lupus-related fatigue and also discusses some possible causes of lupus fatigue.
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Lupus and Skin Care: Sun Protection, Beauty Treatments, Rash Treatments, and Makeup
WebMD discusses how to care for your skin and beauty with lupus.
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Parenting With Lupus
It’s hard to be a parent with lupus, but don’t feel inadequate. Your children can understand and help you better with these tips.