Lupus

Lupus is when your immune system is attacking itself. Lupus is said to come about in a person's life between the ages of 15 and 45. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is said to be an orphan disease. This means that there are less than 200,000 people are affected. Also, Lupus is known as a woman's disease, being that 9 out of 10 people are affected are women. Lupus has been recorded in individuals as early as neonatal years, and as old as 89 years old. The onset of lupus after the age of 45 is very rare and after the age of 70 its extremely unusual. Lupus has been diagnosed in kidneys, skin, brain and many other organs in the body. Lupus is mainly caused by genetics and can be triggered by stress. This is usually call a flare in your lupus. Lupus may cause you to take many different medications. If you are in pain, have inflammation, swelling in your joints , or show weakness you should have your doctor test you for lupus.

I read in Article entitled "Black Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosis (SLE) Develop Cardiovascular Disease(CVD) at Early Age."

Being a Black Women with SLE this article caught my attention. The article stated that the youngest age for that a woman has had the disease and having Lupus was 53.9 years of age. This research was conducted by a researcher of medicine at Penn State College. Also, african american woman is the youngest that someone has died from the disease and been diagnosed with the disease. The researchers found out 3, 627 admissions for CVD with SLE among females had an average age of 60.8 and without SLE who were admitted had an average age of 71.3.

Research Proposal: Lupus

My research proposal topic is going to be: how Lupus comes and effects different individual lives? Lupus is a disease that affects the immune system. Many people don't know they have Lupus when they get it. The symptoms are similar to many other diseases known to man. Lupus is usually comes from a genetic trait and you may have or you may not. Lupus can affect your joints, skin, and almost every organ in your body, such as kidneys, lungs, brain, liver, etc.

Many things can trigger Lupus in the body, such as sunlight, stress or a slight infection. Anyone can be affected by Lupus even children, but most people have the trait in their genes. It is known that people of colored are more likely to be affected than Caucasians. Common symptoms of lupus include low-grade fever, extreme fatigue, and painful or swollen joints. There is a lupus rash, which often manifests as a butterfly-shaped reddish or purplish rash across the bridge of the nose and cheeks, is another common sign. This is called the butterfly affect. There are blood tests that a doctor can use to help diagnose lupus.

Lupus is a part of many individuals’ lives in this community, including mine. I was diagnosed with it when I was 15 and I know just in my father’s household; my dad’s girlfriend mother and I both have it, so I’m sure many other individuals do too.

As I keep studying Lupus I would like to learn how are doctors working to cure lupus and are they still taking the time to develop more treatments to reduce flare ups. Also, I would like to find out why are people of color more likely to be affected by Lupus. Is it something that is dated back in history, was it passed from Africa or was it developed here in America?

interview process

I have conducted my interview with my stepmother a native of Robeson County, NC. She was quite helpful, some questions were a little confusing being she wasn't an high school graduate, but I thought she was the good candidate to do this interview.

Response for the 9/6 class « mythoughtsgoneviral

Response for the 9/6 class « mythoughtsgoneviral:
I also notice that the when I was doing my research about the townships. I have lived in Scotland County 18 years and I didn't even know that. Scotland County has a wide range of different health care facilities. I was in a store in Robeson County and the clerk was pregnant, I her say to the other store clerk, " I'm not letting none of these doctors around here be my doctor," and that's when the other clerk replied, "welll Laurinburg got a very good OBGYN facility." Many natives other counties feel that Scotland County is doing well for itself, but residents of the county beg to differ.
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Place Matters! Community Health « brittanylavonne

Place Matters! Community Health « brittanylavonne: "I totally agree with you. I have lived in Scotland County for 18 years and all I see is children having babies and STDs arising in the area. Also, I work at Bojangles for 2 years and the most people came at 7 o clock. An older woman that used to work with me would get called in to night shift and she would say, " Don't these people know anything you eat after 7pm turns in to fat." Families are waiting to late at night to get their child something to eat, due to the laziness of not wanting to cook. When I took health in high school, we learned Scotland County was #31 in statistics of STDs in North Carolina. In highschool I began to believe getting pregnant was a fashion because everytime you turn around a pregnant female was walking pass you."

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Scotland County

For this entry I decided to study Scotland County since that where I'm from. As I research Scotland County I found out that white people make up about 48% of the population followed by African Americans. Also, it didn't surprise me to see that the main crime in Scotland County was burglary followed by murder from 2004-2009. I'm pretty sure at the end of the year, it will be murder due to the deaths that have been occurring every weekend. Also, I found out that people spend most of their household expenditures on health care and utilities.