WHAT ARE COMMON TRIGGERS FOR A LUPUS FLARE? A REVIEW BY DOCTORS
Expert opinion from Marcelle Freire
Doctor of Medicine · 3 years of experience · Brazil
Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the body produces autoantibodies and immune reactions that are responsible for attacking its own tissues. It is a disease that develops more commonly in young women and in Afro-descendants. It usually affects multiple systems and has a large and variable spectrum of presentation that may be different for each patient. In patients known to have Lupus, it is known that psychological or physical stress, such as infections, pregnancy, trauma/accidents, exposure to ultraviolet light, some medications, among others, can act as triggers that trigger disease crises/activity, episodes also known as flare.
Expert opinion from Ilya Aleksandrovskiy
M.D., MBA · 5 years of experience · USA
Lupus flare refers to the significant increase in diseases activity in one or more organ systems resulting in severe clinical symptoms. Flares usually come and go. It might so happen that the patient could experience pain in the first week with intense itchy rashes and experience no symptoms in the next week.
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Expert opinion from Alex T. Thomas
MD · 40 years of experience · USA
The triggering factors of lupus flares can be stress, emotional breakdown, overwork, fluorescence or UV exposure, and anxiety. These factors when get mixed with restlessness, make the environment hazy for the patient and he/she can feel lupus flares.
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