Managing MS vs. Living with Lupus

Managing Multiple Sclerosis vs. Living with Lupus

Overview

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which your immune system attacks the protective sheath (myelin) that covers your nerves. Myelin damage disrupts communication between your brain and the rest of your body. Ultimately, the nerves themselves may deteriorate, a process that's currently irreversible.

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Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that occurs when your body's immune system attacks your own tissues and organs. Inflammation caused by lupus can affect many different body systems

• Various ethical implications regarding treatment of these diseases

• Why has the number of cases of lupus and MS increased? Why does it keep increasing?

Signs and Symptoms

Treatments

Causes

Managing Life with Lupus and Multiple Sclerosis

These diseases are incurable but are manageable through the following methods.

People with both diseases may experience

• Work and play limitations
• Emotional pain and frustration
• Strain on family relationships
• Social isolation
• Cognitive Dysfunction
• Doubts about the future

Ways to combat these

• Make exercising a priority
• Fight fatigue
• Behavioral techniques
• Educating themselves
• Medication and Treatment

How They Manifest Themselves

Both diseases cause

Lupus

Multiple Sclerosis

• The method and severity to which this disease manifests itself in the body varies greatly from person to person
• Usually begins with a tingling sensation or impaired vision

Most people experience limitations in

• vision
• coordination
• strength
• sensation
• In children, it may begin after neurological symptoms called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
• MS Hug

Lupus:

Hormones

• Relationship between Lupus and Estrogen
• Genetics
• No group of genes known to cause lupus
• African, Asian, Latinos, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders have a greater risk of developing lupus.
• Environment
• Virus or chemical can trigger the disease
• No specific environmental agent has been identified
• UV Lights, Infections, and Silica Dust
• Pregnancy, Injury, Exhaustion

• Five Different Types

-Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

-Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE)

-Drug-induced lupus

-Late-state lupus

-Antiphopholipid antibody syndrome

• Body creates antibodies against its own RBCs, neutrophils, platelets, lymphocytes, etc
• People tend to suffer from

-Constitutional symptoms

-Achy/ inflamed joints

-Skin rashes

-Anemia

-Kidney involvement (lupus nephritis)

-Hair loss

-Mouth, nose, or vaginal ulcers

• Visceral Systems That Can Be Affected:

-Central Nervous System

-Pulmonary System

-Cardiopulmonary/Cardiovascular System

Global Community

• The majority of people who are affected by lupus and multiple sclerosis are females.

• 90% of people with lupus are female and there are 3x more women with multiple sclerosis than men.
• Lupus affects more African, Asian, and Native Americans, while MS affects more Caucasian individuals.
• Genetics

Lupus

Multiple Sclerosis

• In both diseases the families and workplaces are affected by the disease.
• Both can be crippling, straining on the mind and body.
• Two out of three lupus patients reported to have lost their income because they are unable to work due to complication involving lupus. All members who come in contact with the person should be informed and understand how to care for the individual.
• Medications
• MS is more common than lupus

• Symptoms vary for every individual.
• Combination of medications
• Corticosteroids
• Antimalarial drugs
• Monoclonal antibody belimubab
• Aspirin
• Design treatment plans, specialists, etc

• Diagnosis
• Reduce disease activity
• Manage and maintain life
• Drugs help ease attacks and slow progression of disease
• Physical therapy help with symptoms
• Deep brain stimulation to control tremors
• Plasma Exchange
• Controlling muscle spasms and bladder complications
• Interferon Drugs
• Cytoxan Therapy

Multiple Sclerosis

Drugs to treat:

• Diuretics for fluid retention
• Antihypertensive drugs for high blood pressure
• Anticonvulsants for seizure disorders
• Antibiotics for infections
• Bone-strengthening drugs for osteoporosis

• Damage to the myelin sheaths in the CNS and the nerve fibres
• Cause remains unknown
• Multitude of factors trigger the disease
• Infectious Agents
• Occurs in areas farther away from the equator
• Vitamin D
• Smoking
• Exposure to viruses in childhood
• Genetics

Goal of Treatment Plan:

• Reduce inflammation caused by lupus
• Suppress your overactive immune system
• Prevent flares, and treat them when they occur
• Control symptoms like joint pain and fatigue
• Minimize damage to organs

Sources

QUIZ: SOCRATIVE

lupus.org

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS/Who-Gets-MS

mayoclinic.org