Lupus Awareness Month

Sample Blurbs Lupus Awareness Month May is Lupus Awareness Month and you can take action in the fight against this cruel and mysterious disease. Lupus is an autoimmune illness that strikes without warning, has unpredictable, sometimes fatal effects, lasts a lifetime, and has no known cause and no known cure. It is pervasive and affects millions of people in the United States. Despite its prevalence, nearly two thirds of the public know little or nothing about it. Learn what you can do to help and take action by visiting lupus.org/awareness.

Put on Purple Show your support for the millions of Americans whose lives are affected by lupus and Put on Purple™ Friday, May 19th. Despite the prevalence of lupus, nearly two thirds of the public know little or nothing about it. Getting your purple on is an easy way to help the Lupus Foundation of America raise awareness of this cruel and mysterious disease. Learn more and get the tools you need to help spread the word at [LINK].

Sample Blog Post 1 Easy as 1, 2, 3 Source: The Lupus Foundation of America This Lupus Awareness Month, take action in the fight to solve the cruel mystery of lupus. You can join the Lupus Foundation of America in supporting those living with the disease with three easy steps:

1. Educate yourself with these facts about lupus.  Lupus is a complex disease that is hard to define. It strikes without warning, affects each person differently, and has no known causes or cure.  Lupus symptoms can be severe and highly unpredictable and can damage any organ or tissue, from the skin or joints to the heart or kidneys.  Despite the widespread prevalence of lupus, research on the disease has remained underfunded, relative to its scope and devastation.  Only one drug has ever been developed specifically to treat lupus and approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

2. On May 19th, Put on Purple™ raise awareness and funds to show your support for people affected by lupus. Learn more by visiting [LINK] and tag the Lupus Foundation of America in your Put on Purple Day photos on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Be sure to use the hashtag #POP.

3. Take the KNOW LUPUS challenge at lupus.org/know and challenge your friends so that together we can create a future without lupus. Sample Blog Post 2 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Lupus Source: The Lupus Foundation of America Lupus is a mysterious and complicated illness that is difficult to diagnose and challenging to treat. Despite its widespread prevalence, about two thirds of the public have little or no knowledge of its effects. This Lupus Awareness Month, you can help spread knowledge and bring us closer to a future free from lupus.

1. Lupus is an unpredictable autoimmune disease that can affect the heart, lungs, skin or kidneys. 2. A lupus patient’s average medical and loss of productivity costs are roughly $20,000 per year, and can increase to $63,000 per year if he or she has kidney complications. 3. No special diet has been found to cure lupus or cause it to go into remission. 4. In certain cases, people with lupus are treated with cyclophosphamide, a chemotherapy drug commonly used to treat cancer that suppresses the immune system. 5. The steroids used to treat people with lupus are the same ones that body builders and some professional athletes have been known to use. 6. While lupus affects people of all races and ethnicities, African Americans — as well as Hispanics/Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders and Native Americans — are diagnosed with lupus 2-3 times more often than Caucasians. 7. Lupus is not contagious. It cannot be “caught” or “passed on” to anyone, no matter what symptoms are showing. 8. Sensitivity to UV light (present in both sunlight and artificial light) affects as many as two thirds of individuals with lupus. This is known to cause fever, debilitating fatigue, joint pain, and rashes. 9. Lupus is not a form of arthritis, but many people with lupus do suffer from joint and/or muscle pain. 10. It is estimated that more than 5 million people throughout the world have a form of lupus.

Visit [LINK] to learn more about how you can take action this Lupus Awareness Month.