WebMD's slideshow helps you understand the symptoms of lupus, an autoimmune disorder that can affect the skin, joints, and organs.
which is an advanced stage of discoid lupus. The advanced stage is when it has affected other parts of your body like your kidneys, lungs, nervous system, and heart. Approximately sixty percent of the patients who have any form of lupus are women over the age of twenty...
Individually, these spots are one to two mm in size. These are less than 0.5 cm even in the later stages of the disease. At any stage, they do not have a diameter of more than 3 mm. Petechiae Location These rashes usually arise on the surface of the legs. In the later stages howev...
People with weakened immune system due to medications or underlying disorders (such as HIV/AIDS) suffer from a form of Leukoplakia that is known as “Hairy Leukoplakia (HL)”. In such cases, the lesions appear as white, fuzzy patches and arise on the tongue. These are usually painless and ...
Neonatal lupus is a type of autoimmune disorder that starts to show up in the first few months of an infant's life. The signs of...
Just found out my girlfriend has lupus, but she's known she's had it for a long time... All of a sudden she's been sick for a month, having sore back and so forth, fatigue etc.. Goes to the doctor and he tells her she has to go to hospital immediately, in there she finds...
Just found out my girlfriend has lupus, but she's known she's had it for a long time... All of a sudden she's been sick for a month, having sore back and so forth, fatigue etc.. Goes to the doctor and he tells her she has to go to hospital immediately, in there she finds...
Neonatal lupus is another rare form of the illness. The condition occurs when women with systematic lupus transfer some of their auto-antibodies to their infant during the birth process. In many cases, this condition is temporary and the symptoms subside within a few months. Rarely, the illness...
of your immune system, an allergic reaction, infection, or an autoimmune disorder. Another cause could be cancer, especially the ones that particularly affect your blood cells like lymphoma or leukemia. It could also be caused by chronic medical conditions that are long term like lupus or ...
We compared the characteristics of EEG in 14 men and 32 women, 18 to 21 years old, in the course of viewing neutral and emotionally (negatively, positively, and erotically) colored pictures from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS); women were tested during various phases of the ...