5 Natural Remedies to Soothe A Lupus Flare Up

Living with any type of disease can be extremely challenging for the person going through it and living with lupus is no different. According to the Bruskin-Goldring survey, an estimated 1.5 million Americans live with lupus and five million people in the world overall. This rare illness can’t be that rare with these types of statistics, right? It’s easy to see it that way but this is still a rare, multisystemic, genetic autoimmune disease that disrupts many people’s lives, but with research and education, it doesn’t have to.  How Lupus Affects the Body There are 4 different types of lupus, systemic, cutaneous, drug-induced and neonatal.  Systemic lupus is where most of the world’s lupus cases fall under. An estimated 70 percent of lupus cases are systemic. Systemic lupus is when the immune system attacks its own healthy tissue causing inflammation and damaging the body’s tissue in the process. A person’s heart, lung, brain and or kidneys will mostly be affected by systemic lupus.  Cutaneous lupus makes up an estimated 10% of lupus cases. This type of lupus is when the immune system attacks one’s skin causing rashes or sores. The areas that are most affected by this skin disease are...