How is the disease Lupus spread?!
Question: Hi, lupus is not "spread" or "caught". Like the others said, there are many factors in determining a lupus diagnosis...enviornmental, drug-induced, genetics, stress, hormones, etc.
Nine out of 10 times it is women that are affected and Asians, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, and Native Americans are disporportionately more affected. There is no know reason why.
If you suspect you have lupus because of suspicious blood test results, connective tissue conditions or because you think you meet certain critieria, please check with a Rheumatologist immediately.
It can take an average of 4-7 years for an average person to get diagnosed going through different doctors and running through different tests.
Go to the source.
Good luck.
Answers: Hi, lupus is not "spread" or "caught". Like the others said, there are many factors in determining a lupus diagnosis...enviornmental, drug-induced, genetics, stress, hormones, etc.
Nine out of 10 times it is women that are affected and Asians, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, and Native Americans are disporportionately more affected. There is no know reason why.
If you suspect you have lupus because of suspicious blood test results, connective tissue conditions or because you think you meet certain critieria, please check with a Rheumatologist immediately.
It can take an average of 4-7 years for an average person to get diagnosed going through different doctors and running through different tests.
Go to the source.
Good luck.
its not spread person to person...its an autoimmune disease that causes the body to pretty much attack itself......
Lupus is not contagious; doctors do not know exactly what causes lupus; it's an auto-immune disease that causes the body to attack itself. While it is known there is a genetic predisposition to the disease; environmental factors also
play a role. Some of these factors are: infections, extreme stress, certain drugs, and hormones (which may explain why lupus occurs more frequently in females than in males).