The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) wants to help you learn your family’s AQ. AQ stands for Autoimmune Quotient. It’s about knowing how likely you or a loved one is to develop an autoimmune disease, based on the prevalence of these diseases and your family history. AQ is a play on IQ.
AARDA offers […]
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Complete Care Community Health Center in Monterey Park Teams Up With NFL Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw And The American College Of Rheumatology To Tackle Rheumatic Disease
With one in four Americans currently suffering from rheumatic diseases—including an estimated 5,719,000 people in CA alone— Complete […]
How to Diagnose an Autoimmune Disease?
Do your own family medical history.
Take an inventory of your family’s health problems, expanding your research beyond your immediate family to cousins, aunts, uncles, and other relatives. Since current research points to a genetic component in most autoimmune diseases, you should know the health histories of your first-degree relatives, […]
Arthritis is an umbrella term used to describe over 100 diseases and conditions, including inflammatory rheumatic diseases (like rheumatoid arthritis, gout, and lupus). When considering the severity of these diseases, it becomes clear that they are much more than aches and pains. Rheumatic diseases –whether lumped under the term ‘arthritis’ or not — can […]
Question By Patient: My first sign of a lupus flare is always dizziness with fatigue. My brain MRI was normal. Why do you think I am getting dizzy spells during flares?
Answer By Dr. Srinivasan
Dizziness with lupus can be due to several reasons. It could be due to inner ear inflammation, small vessel inflammation in brain, […]
Question By Patient: I was told previous blood work showed I have Lupus, but now am in remission. I’ve had severe body aches and mouth sores again. Am I having a flare up?
Answer By Dr. Srinivasan
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune systemic disorder and can have quiet periods with acute intermittent flares. Mouth sores with severe […]
Question By Patient: Can lupus cause pancreatitis since lupus is an autoimmune disease?
Answer By Dr. Srinivasan
Lupus induced pancreatitis happens in a small percentage of lupus patients. Lupus vasculitis can cause pancreatitis. Other causes of pancreatitis in lupus include virus induced, perforated peptic ulcer disease, common duct stone from biliary tract, alcohol and or drug induced. […]
Question By Patient: If I have lupus will I pass it on to my baby?
Answer By Dr. Srinivasan
Chances of a baby developing lupus are very small. Neonatal lupus is a condition in which mothers ant-Ro or anti-La antibodies temporarily pass through the placenta to the baby and can cause a rash or rarely heart […]
Question By Patient: What is lupus?
Answer By Dr. Srinivasan
Lupus is an autoimmune disease and affects skin, joints, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain, blood and blood vessels. In lupus immune system makes antibodies to healthy cells causing inflammation leading to damage to organ or body system .lupus is not contagious. It is not cancer or related […]
Question By Patient: Is lupus an autoimmune disease?
Answer By Dr. Srinivasan:
Lupus is a classic autoimmune disease that attacks cells, tissues and organs. It is a systemic autoimmune disease that attacks skin, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, blood vessels and nervous system. Antibody production by B cells are to DNA, SM antigen, histones and other proteins of the cell nucleus. […]
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