Lupus: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 2
Physiological stressors and mechanisms..............................................................................2
History....................................................................................................................... 4
Planning........................................................................................................................ 6
Intervention................................................................................................................. 7
Evaluation.................................................................................................................. 9
Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 9
References................................................................................................................... 11

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Introduction
An American writer named Flannery O'Connor was identified with Lupus illness when at
the age of 26 years. This was a similar illness that also killed her father when she was sixteen.
During the twentieth century, she was considered one of the best literature writers and devotes to
the Roman Catholicism. She was born and raised up in a Catholic family of Georgia in 1925,
(Gordon, 2018). She became seriously ill and nearly lost her life due to the Lupus which is an
incurable, autoimmune illness. The only management at that time was steroids drugs use to
reduce the inflammation. She was much focused towards her work and Even though she had
weakness and sufferings, she sustained to write different novels (Gordon, 2018).
Physiological stressors and mechanisms
Lupus disorder affects the complete body system, this disease Take place when the
patient's resistant system initiates to compete itself. The patient's immune system then attacks the
organs and tissues of the body. The existence of Over-reactive B cells results in the
autoantibodies creation, in combination with the abnormal removal of the apoptotic cellular
substances, leads to the immune complexes formation. These complexes trigger the
inflammatory responses in the microvasculature and lead to inflammation and impairment linked
with the illness (Maidhof and Hilas, 2012). This particular health condition impacts the joints,
blood cells, the brain, heart, lungs and entire skins of the patient.
Causes of this health condition are genetic and moderately activated by the surrounding
environment. The illness remains latent and is not revealed unless any triggering factor present in
the environment induces it, for example, the skin rash occurs due to the exposure to sunlight,
which triggers the internal reaction that exhibits similar to butterfly rash. Later, the rash covers

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some parts of the head such as cheek and patient's Nose Bridge; which looks like a butterfly.
The skin rash turns into poorer with recurrent sunlight exposure (Achtman & Werth, 2015).
Stress is another factor that triggers Reynaud's phenomenon, an illness in which the body's edges
that such as the toes, all fingers and the ear' colour changes to white or blue (Doaty, Agrawal,
Bauer, & Furst, 2016). Certain medicines can activate lupus, for example, Medicines prescribed
for BP, drugs used for antibiotics or anti-seizure is also responsible to trigger the lupus
symptoms. The symptoms commonly progress when the diseased person stops these drugs
(Anders & Rovin, 2016).
The clinical appearances or manifestations of this health condition impact multiple body
systems of the diseased person including the central nervous systems (CNS). The resistant
system of the individual attacks the brain, triggers headaches, visualization difficulties, faintness,
stroke or heart attack and/or even the seizures. As the disease attacks on the patient's brain, they
may also develop memory loss issues and difficulty in upholding their thoughts. Inflammation of
the chest cavity may take place due to the infection of the lungs, which could lead to the bleeding
inside the lungs (Alexander et al., 2015). As the disease impacts the lungs it may also cause
Pneumonia. This health issue causes fever, bone joint pain, skin rash and exhaustion. These sign
and signs occur occasionally, and they can outbreak for some period then enhances. The
diagnosis of Lupus is difficult; the symptoms of this disorder resemble the occurrence of
numerous other illnesses (Manjarrez-Orduño et al., 2017)
Lupus may also impact the affects the patient's blood and associated blood vessels. The
injury happens to the blood vessels leads to internal bleeding. Alternatively, this particular illness
may also source a blood-clot, which ultimately obstructs the blood containing ducts. Due to this
Rapture might happen, subsequent in inside bleeding. Lupus might similarly impact the heart.