Articles for tag: Lupus, Lupus Symptoms

Lupus- Symptoms and Risk Factors

Lupus is a disease of the immune system, where the cells in the immune system attack healthy body tissue, including the skin and major organs (heart, kidneys, liver, etc). Lupus is a lifelong disease and is incurable, however, medication can help manage the illness and make it less severe on the body. Joint pain in ...

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Symptoms of Lupus

Lupus is a strange and often baffling disease that affects approximately 2 million people in the U.S, of those, nearly 90% are women. Because no two people with lupus will present with the same set of symptoms, or will have the disease run the same course, it can be extremely difficult to diagnose. If you ...

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Types and Classifications of Childhood Lupus: An Overview

Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease attributed to an autoimmune response within the body. When this autoimmune response occurs, the body creates natural antibodies in response to healthy tissue, believing that healthy tissue is a foreign substance. For parents who care for a child who is suffering from lupus, it is important to understand not ...

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Herbal Remedies for Lupus

Because lupus is associated with the body’s destruction of its own cells, lupus is mainly thought of as an autoimmune disorder but lupus is also considered a rheumatic condition because it can also cause pain and stiffness in joints, muscles and bones. While the exact cause of lupus is still unknown, modern medicine has a ...

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Is it Lupus? Symptoms and Signs of Lupus

Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which your body attacks itself, causing chronic inflammation. Ninety percent of people with lupus are women, and those diagnosed with lupus are more likely to be of African or Asian descent. Lupus is especially terrifying because there is no cure and diagnosing lupus can be extremely difficult. Lupus affects ...

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Understanding Lupus: A Disease That Affects Mainly Women

Lupus is a chronic (long-lasting) autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation, pain, and tissue damage throughout the body. Autoimmune disease is caused by an immune response against the body’s own tissues. The immune system is designed to fight off foreign invaders by forming antibodies. The immune response is how the body recognizes and defends itself ...

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Herbs that Help Lupus, Herbs that Don’t

Lupus is a serous health condition affecting over 1.5 million people, according to Lupus.org. The chronic auto-immune disease affects most parts of the body, including skin, joints and organs.Traditional treatment is needed for controlling the painful condition. Adding certain herbs can compliment medication decreasing flares, but natural healing with a few plants must be treated ...

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Rebuttal to the Argument that Fat People are Destroying America

According to one content producer on Associated Content, obesity is destroying America, risking our national security, solely responsible for rising health care costs, and that fat people are just the single worst threat to society today. I have based this conclusion on this comment in the article: “The obesity epidemic is the single most important ...