Sonia Jones from The Haven Spa and Health Clinic
It is important to bear in mind there is no one supplement or treatment that will cure you of arthritis, it takes a collection of things, time and dedication.
The 3 point strategy (number one is paramount)
1) change your diet dramatically (tinkering with it will [...]
Sonia Jones from The Haven Spa and Health Clinic
ARACHIDONIC ACID from too much meat in the diet sets up a chain of events that encourages inflammation and suffering within the body.
BOWL OF FRUIT keep one well stock in sight and easy to reach [...]
Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic
The people most at risk of getting lupus are women of child bearing age. So how does lupus affect pregnancy?
If you have lupus and are considering getting pregnant, you will need very close supervision during your pregnancy, during the delivery and the [...]
Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic
They say there is no cure for systemic lupus.
Goal is to relieve suffering, reduce inflammation and protect the organs.
Many patients with mild symptoms may need no treatment or only intermittent courses of anti-inflammatory medications.
Conventional treatments for more serious illness involving damage to internal organ(s) may require [...]
The combination of symptoms can vary enormously from one patient to another depending on which organ/s are involved. Making it quite difficult to diagnose Lupus (one of many diseases that full under the arthritis banner/.
The American Rheumatism Association set out 11 criteria and if a person has 4 or more it is thought that [...]
Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and health Clinic
There are no hard and fast rules - systemic lupus erythematosus SLE can develop different combination of symptoms, with various part and organs involved.
The most common symptoms -
Fatigue
Low-grade fever
Loss of appetite
Aching muscles
Mouth ulcers
The butterfly rash
Hyper-sensitivity to sunlight
Inflammation of the mucus lining of the lungs
Pericarditis of the [...]
Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Health Clinic
It has been reported the their are dozens of medications that can trigger systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The drugs most lightly to cause “drug-induced lupus” -
Hydralazine for blood pressure
Quinidine and Procainamide used for abnormal heart rhythms
Phenytoin used for epilepsy
Isoniazid used for tuberculois
D-penicillamine used [...]
Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Health Clinic
Lupus is a condition that comes under the heading of Arthritis - it too is an inflammatory condition that are acute and chronic - an auto-immune disease.
Our immune system is a complex system - designed to protect us - to fight off any invading bacteria, virus [...]
Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Health Clinic
Hair loss – known as alopecia can occur in about 50 percent of people with lupus (a form of arthritis at some time during the course of the disease. For a woman this is extremely distressing, but the good news is, hair loss associated with [...]