There is still no cure for lupus at present, but it can be effectively treated with drugs, and nowadays, people with this disease can still lead active and healthy lives. Lupus is characterized by periods of illness, or flares, and periods of wellness, or remission and determining how to prevent these flares and treat them when they occur helps people with lupus maintain better health.
These are the necessary steps in fighting the disease.
Diagnosing Lupus
Diagnosing lupus is difficult and can take months or even years for doctors to piece together the symptoms and diagnose this complex disease accurately. It requires the right knowledge and awareness on the doctor’s part and good, proactive communication on the side of the patient to make the correct diagnosis. Providing a complete and accurate medical history (health problems you’ve had and for how long) is crucial to the process. This information, together with a physical examination and the results of laboratory tests, will help the doctor check against other diseases that may be mimicking lupus, or determine if the patient really has the disease.
