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Fatigue on the horizon!

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I am a student, I work at night for the town hall of my city, with kids in "school failure". In 2 weeks, Saturday, May 29, we have a party, a kind of carnival, where we are supposed to parade, dance, walk in the streets of the city, from 12h to 19h. Big problem: how am I going to do? How can I keep more than 1 hour to walk? From experience, I know it's useless to talk to my boss, because I work with one of my friends, who was supposed to know since 2002, when I told him about it, that I suffer from an LED. However, she "forgot" it, and when it was about a month ago she asked me what I had in the face (mask of the wolf), and that I replied that it was a lupus, she looked surprised that I did not speak to her before. Thank you for being my friend, it's great (pseudo) yupi friends! So talk to the superior, even if I get along well, so that he understands nothing: no thank you. People in general react to me as my father: According to him, I am in good health bec...

Not easy back to school

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Back to school after the holidays was not easy! I missed a lot of my blog, and also my facebook page. In fact, I'm pushing, suddenly, I'm sick H24. For 1 month, I did not stop coughing, coughing. Accompanied by fever (once a week, it's accurate lol) and cramps with or without fever. Currently, the cough is almost gone, the fever less rarely (once a month), but the pain is more present than ever. About once a week I am stuck with pain, I can not even move a finger! If I lie down, only I can not get up. If they help me up, I walk like a granny, step by step, back all bent and it's far from glamorous!  And it's a big vicious circle: I lie down to rest, but the more I rest, the more it gets worse. On the contrary, if I try to move, walk, it passes over the hours alone. But you have to have a lot of courage to get up and move while suffering martyrdom. And if no one sees that I am alone, in my room, in the vegetable state that does not move, well I can spend 24 hours wit...

Lupus And The Child

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Systemic lupus in children and adolescents in ten key points: Editor: Dr. B. Bader-Meunier, Reference Center "Juvenile Arthritis", Necker Hospital, Paris) Editors: Drs Quartier (Reference Center "Arthritis Juveniles", Paris), Dr. Ranchin (Pediatric Nephrology, Lyon) 1 What is Systemic Lupus? How is Lupus treated and supervised in children and adolescents? SLE is an autoimmune disease that can affect one or more organs, especially the skin, joints, blood cells and kidneys. SLE is a chronic disease which means it can last a long time. Autoimmune means that it is a disease of the immune system that will cause an attack on the patient's own organs. Systemic means that it can reach several organs of the body. The word lupus comes from the Latin word wolf because of the characteristic aspect of the cutaneous involvement of the face with a red plaque in the shape of the mask which is called "wolf". The management of pediatric lupus should be coordinated by a ...

Why women have more autoimmune diseases?

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Most of them are female, sometimes with a sex ratio of 9 women for 1 men, as in Lupus and Sjogren's Syndrome. Why this feminine predominance? For a long time, the only incirminated factor was female hormones (estrogens) but this explanation was insufficient because estrogens may even have, under certain circumstances, a protective anti-inflammatory role. In recent years, other interesting original explanations have been made. It is likely that the female X chromosome plays a major role because it carries many genes of immunity. The expression and regulation of these genes could be disrupted in major autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Other phenomena such as fetal-maternal microchimerism, which is the exchange of cells (especially lymphocytes) during pregnancy through the placenta, may also play a role. So, systemic autoimmune diseases, such as lupus or localized forms of an organ (such as thyroiditis), preferentially affect women. For example, lupus or Sjögren's syndrome are fe...