Smoking cigarettes causes many adverse effects on the body. Tobacco use increases the risk for many types of cancers along with an increase of risk with many chronic conditions. If you have a chronic condition, smoking not only increases your risk of developing them but can also make them significantly worse. Many people who smoke are …
It’s been a wives’ tale for years. Grandmothers across the world have predicted the rain when their joints swell and ache. There have been many studies on the effect of rain on joints, but the weather undeniably affects our bodies. The changes in the weather have been known to impact the human body in both …
Many autoimmune diseases are more common among women than men. In fact, nine out of ten patients with lupus are women, and physicians and researchers currently do not understand why. Clinical research is playing a vital role in discovering why conditions like lupus affect more women than men. Read on to find out more. What …
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body. The symptoms can mimic other common conditions, making the path to diagnosis a challenging one. With around 1 in every 2,000 people diagnosed in the United States, lupus shows no discrimination. What is Lupus? Autoimmune diseases turn your body’s immune defense …
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and lupus are in the top ten of the most common autoimmune diseases, but how are they different from each other? Read on to find out. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus Defined Both RA and lupus are autoimmune disease meaning that the body’s immune system attacks itself. A normal immune system attacks foreign …
Lupus Triggers If you have been diagnosed with Lupus, you understand that even the diagnosis process of this disease is complicated. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of your body such as your skin, joints, and organs. Lupus is more difficult to diagnose due to the symptoms mimicking so many …
Lupus can affect just about any part of the body. It affects different people in different ways, which is something that can make lupus hard to diagnose. Technically speaking, lupus is an inflammatory disease that causes the immune system to attack its own tissues. Often times, those suffering with the disease don’t have any visible …
Being diagnosed with Lupus was shocking, to say the least. I had no idea that getting the flu so many times would be because my own body was attacking itself. My doctor told me that lupus is an autoimmune disease, meaning my immune system couldn’t tell the difference between my healthy tissue and any germs or …
Arthritis can be a pain…literally. From trouble walking or opening jars to joint pain in general, symptoms can greatly affect daily life in a big way. And with 1 in 5 adults and 300,000 kids – yes, kids! – struggling with some type of arthritis, it has quickly become the nation’s number 1 cause of …
Lupus is often times referred to as an “invisible illness” because many of the symptoms can’t be “seen.” This however does not make lupus any less real or painful for those affected. Just because those suffering from lupus may not “look” sick, they may in fact feel very sick. Lupus is associated with symptoms like …
