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What u recommend for lupus? my mom has it and she says she hurt all over from it and i wanted to know what medicine or what can be done to fight it?
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Complicated: Nothing you can buy over the counter, don't fool around with herbal drugs. Please have her see her physician who can, depending on his.Her exam refer your mom to a specialist. This illness is serious and treatment is varied and long.
Answered 9/29/2016
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See a rheumatologist: Lupus is a disease that can affect many organs in the body .The skin and joints are most common but many others can be involved.Vit is impossible to define the extent of your moms disease she needs to see a rheumatologist to be fully evaluated forvextentvandcseverityvofcdiseasecandcsppropriatectjerapycstarted.
Answered 3/7/2015
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