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Symptoms and Diagnosis
Epidemiology
Treatments
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A chronic inflammatory disease that occurs when your body's immune system attacks your own tissues and organs.
What is Lupus?
100
List some of the most common symptoms of lupus.
What is the butterfly rash(which is a butterfly shaped rash across cheeks and nose), extreme fatigue, headaches, painful and swollen joints, anemia, mouth and nose ulcers, hair loss, sun and light sensitivity?
100
The gender mostly affected by lupus.
What are females?
100
Main way of dealing with lupus.
What is medication?
200
The number of people worldwide who have lupus.
What is 5 million?
200
A common misdiagnosis of lupus.
What is Guillain-Barré Syndrome? (Guillain-Barré syndrome is a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system)
200
The age group most likely to have lupus.
What is 15-44 years old?
200
Type of medication used in treating lupus.
What is steroid medication? Specifically corticosteroids, prednisone, and hydrocortisone.
300
The medical name of lupus.
What is Lupus Erythematosus?
300
Ways lupus affects patient.
What is depression, memory loss, confusion, and be prone to infection?
300
This race is 2-3 times more likely to develop lupus.
What are African Americans?
300
There is no cure for lupus. However, there are a number of future goals for treatments. List them.
What are clinical trials. There are many ongoing clinical trials that are looking to find ways to decreases the symptoms that lupus patients have.
400
Thirteenth century physician who founded term lupus(Latin for wolf) by using it to describe erosive facial lesions that were reminiscent of a wolf's bite.
Who is Rogerus?
400
The way lupus is diagnosed.
What is they'll test your immune system and if they find something wrong a doctor who is considering the possibility of lupus will look for signs of inflammation. The signs of inflammation are pain, heat, redness, swelling, and loss of function at a particular place in the body.
400
Lupus is transmitted in this way.
What is it is not transmitted disease; however, it is a recessive gene that runs in the family?
400
Non-medical ways of dealing with lupus.
What is therapy, diet, and exercise?
500
The year lupus was discovered.
What is 1988?
500
Name the types of lupus.
What is Cutaneous lupus, systematic lupus, drug induced lupus, and neonatal lupus?
500
The number recorded cases of lupus occur each year.
What is 16,000?
500
Describe a day in the life of a lupus patient.
Daily Double!