Can lupus be sexually transmitted, also if I have sex with a girl with lupus, what can happen to her? In terms of complications, or would that depend on what type she has? Lupus is not a contagious disease. It is a disease that can affect any major organ (i.e. lungs, heart) If your girlfriend has lupus should would be advised by her doctor on what to do. My brother has had lupus for years. In remission now. No. It is an autoimmune disease. i just googled lupus and sex
What about my sex life?
There is no doubt that your appearance and behaviour may change with lupus. You may feel more sensitive to these changes and feel that your partner doesn't understand. It goes without saying that some relationships do end but this is a fact of life and happens even without an illness. You need to be able to communicate what you are feeling, what anxieties you or your partner have and if you can't solve these alone perhaps it is time to seek professional help.
Lupus can certainly affect your sex life and the closeness of your relationship. There may be psychological and physical reasons for your sex life to become affected. Physically you may be experiencing muscle and joint pains and not feel able or want to move around. Pain can restrict the activity of love making, therefore, it is important to try and find ways to relax muscles and reduce pain. Massage, warm baths and relaxation may help. You may need to try different positions to put less strain on joints. Learn to talk to your partner about what is comfortable for both of you. Take into consideration the time of day you make love. If you experience early morning loss of mobility you might want to restrict your love making to afternoons or evenings. Fatigue as previously mentioned can affect 90% of Lupus sufferers. Therefore, if you are tired you will not enjoy lovemaking. However, talk to your partner and let them know why you don't want to make love. Being close to someone in their arms can also be a loving experience. Other problems that may be encountered are:
Drugs may be painkillers that make you feel drowsy. As with coping with the pain, find time when you have adequate pain relief without feeling drowsy. Some drugs, eg beta blockers, can diminish sex drive. It may be possible, on advice from your doctor, to change the brand of drug being used to one which does not have this effect. If this is not possible you should explain to your partner that your medication is responsible for your lack of libido and that you are not just 'cooling off' your relationship! With Raynaud's, the circulation of blood being restricted may also cause you to feel pain and uncomfortable during love making. Warm baths and a warm atmosphere can help.
Dryness - just as some people develop sore eyes and mouth you can also develop a sore and even sometimes ulcerated vagina. Ulcers should not necessarily inhibit lovemaking. Soreness and dryness may be overcome with longer foreplay to increase lubrication or by using lubricants such as KY jelly. If this soreness and dryness persist it may be necessary to seek medical advice. Don't be embarrassed, you will not be the first person to consult your doctor about this problem. Go to any major health care provider site. I use the mayo clinic (they once saved my life). Lupus is a serious, debilitating disease. You will find all the info you need there, from licensed professionals. Lupus is an immune system malady nothing to do with sex, cannot be transferred. Its really a "women's disease" mostly. nothing can happen either to you or her. You cannot "catch" lupus, or give it to another person.
Systemic lupus erythematosus, or lupus as it is more commonly known, is a chronic inflammatory disease that involves the immune system. The immune system is supposed to protect the body against foreign agents such as bacteria or viruses, but in lupus the immune system becomes confused and turns against itself, attacking and destroying healthy tissue. Lupus can affect virtually any organ in the body, such as the kidneys, heart, lungs, brain, blood, skin, etc.
When only the skin is involved, the disease is called discoid lupus erythematosus. But when internal systems are involved the term systemic lupus erythematosus is used. In systemic lupus the skin may be involved, also. Lupus is an auto-immune disease, which means it is the self attacking the self, not other outside agents causing or exacerbating the disease usually. I have read ZERO information about it being sexually transmitted, or sexually affected in any way, shape or form, other than the women I know w/ lupus are sometimes too tired and too achy/uncomfortable to even think about sex. Your question is at least very interesting and shows some thinking, awareness and concern for the both of you. There are cases of women being extremely allergic to their mate's sperm, so like I said, it is an INTERESTING question you bring up. I would STRONGLY recommend that you and she seek out the services of an excellent practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM), as Western medicine can do and does NOTHING for the treatment of auto-immune diseases other than suppress or "manage" the symptoms. The picture is unfortunately pretty dismal with Western allopathic medicine in this regard. Seek alternatives. I have a theory that auto-immune diseases are an exaggerated allergic response, and that stress is the absolute worst possible agent to interfere with the course of the disease. Almost every woman I know w/ Lupus also has issues around fibromyalgia, joint inflammation and destruction issues, food allergies and extreme chronic fatigue. There are also huge clues that lupus may be virally involved or virally transmitted as well. No Lupus is not transmitted through Sex, There are many factor that come into play for you to get Lupus if you have ever had the Epstein-Barr virus, A Family History, Age and more Women get it then men.
There have been no prov-en studies that Lupus is openly transmitted through sex. But in any event you should always consult a Doctor should you have worries about this!
Best Regards! Lupus is not a transmittable disease, it occurs when some normal function of the immune system fails. It can occur for various reasons but seems to need a genetic predisposition.
So, if you have sex with someone with lupus nothing will happen to you but you may be helping to sicken or kill them. Normal sex between normal , healthy people exposes everybody to some usually minor and insignifcant degree, just holding hands can spread colds. A normal immune system makes this a no risk passtime.
A failing immune system makes the risk higher. Use a condom, use common sense. LUPUS literal translation is "Wolf" and it is one of over 80 identified auto immune diseases so far and rising. It is not a contagious disease.
Auto immune means what it sounds like. Its when the immune system is on auto pilot and attacking its own cells.
The symptoms of lupus are redness around the face that resembles a mask that looks like a wolfs mask.
It is a connective tissue disease in which your own immune cells cause inflammatory conditions on organs or skin (i.e. Schleroderma) attack your own organ cells or skin cells.
How does this occur? Its our modern food chain that is deficient, so we are lacking the proper cell food for proper immune function and cell communication. For example, in 1951, we used to get enough natural beta carotine in 2 peaches, now it takes 53 peaches in 2007.
In fact, the World Health Organization had to update the American FDA that our foods are so deficient, that we have to supplement.
How an autoimmune disease is triggered:
Cells have walls made out of lipids (fats) and protein structures made out of enzymes, and on top of those protein structures are the 8 known sugars that are the antenna or braille cells use to vibrate thousands of messages per second.
Cells must get these molecules from our diet, but we are deficient. So, when a cell surface sugar goes missing on that cell... The protein structure becomes mal-formed. Kind of like a broken tea cup handle attached to a tea cup, the protein structure is broken against the cell.
Then, the immune system sends a blue print to the entire immune system to attack any cell that looks like that cell. So, the body attacks itself and eventually the symptoms appear and the disease is diagnosed.
The only known medical treatment are steroids. Which, are enzyme inhibitors and only mask the symptoms but don't cure it. These drugs prevent cells from regenerating brand new tissues properly.
Most people don't know this information because their doctors not only don't practice biological nutrition (they only offer an optional course for an hour), the medical texts are sponsored by the meat and dairy industry, so a doctor has no problem telling their patient to go to McDonald's after a chemotherapy treatment.
Chemotherapy is modifiend mustard gas from World War 2 and that supresses the immune system. It kills every fast dividing cell in the body and the out come for cancer hasn't changed since 1934 with chemo treatments... However, chemotherapy is used for Lupus patients and then they go into renal failure (kidney failure) and there are 9 different ways to die on dialysis.
So, which would you rather have. A cellular restoration program with scientifically proven food molecules to feed your cells or the road down hill on a train with no breaks?
Cells need the proper nutritional tools for the body to correct itself. When provided with these food molecules, the sugar structures for all 8 sugars called glycoproteins become normal. The protein structure no longer looks like a broken tea cup handle and the immune system sends a blue print to the entire immune system to heal and correct itself.
Most people think this is too good to be true because our Western culture is ruled by big pharmaceutical giants who spend billions to keep us in the dark about how simple curing oneself really is... So, in the state of Texas, they won't allow anyone to see science related to a cure with a non toxic scientifically validated supplement.
Its all about greed and money. |
