Lupus

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DO you know what Lupus is? Or do you know anyone with Lupus? You’ll be surprised to know that over 1.5 million people are affected by Lupus and of every 170 people 9 out of 10 of them are women. Even though that Lupus can be dated back to the Greek physician Hippocrates many people are still blind to this disease. Lupus can affect you, your love ones and the people around you because, like many other autoimmune diseases Lupus does not discriminate. I’m surprised that not many people know what Lupus is, especially when someone is diagnosed with lupus every 30 minutes. When I was diagnosed I was relieved to finally know I was not going crazy and there was actually something wrong, but at the same time scared out of my mind because there is no cure. (Rupavate, 2014)
Every individual with lupus has distinctive side effects that can run from gentle to extreme and may go back and forth over the long haul. New symptoms may keep on manifesting years after the initial detection, and distinctive indications can happen at diverse times. In some individuals with lupus the skin or joints are influenced. Other individuals experience indications in numerous parts of their body. Exactly how fully a person’s body is influenced by Lupus changes from individual to individual. (Encyclopedia.com, 2014)
Lupus influences an alternate group of individuals; however, it is more commonly diagnosed in women. Women are nine times more vulnerable to Lupus than men are. Normally lupus happens in individuals who are between 15 to 45 years of age. While lupus does influence women more, Caucasian women are less inclined to advance lupus than Asian, Hispanic, and Native American women. There is not a definite explanation for why Lupus develops; even so, there are...

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...ected by this disease. It is vital to support those with lupus because they go through an enormous deal. A support system is important, even if you’re just there to listen because a shoulder to cry on could mean the world.

Works Cited

Encyclopedia.com. (2014). Lupus facts, information, pictures | encyclopedia.com articles about lupus. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/lupus.aspx [Accessed: 31 Jan 2014].
Greenlaw, E. (2014). Lupus and depression: coping tips. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.webmd.com/lupus/community-tv-lupus-11/lupus-depression [Accessed: 31 Jan 2014].
Lupus.org. (2014). What is lupus?. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.lupus.org/answers/entry/what-is-lupus [Accessed: 30 Jan 2014].
Rupavate, S. (2014). What is lupus?. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.lupus.org/answers/entry/what-is-lupus [Accessed: 31 Jan 2014].

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