How Does Heat Affect Someone with Lupus?

For many Lupus patients when their body has an increase in temperature, it causes their nerves to conduct electrical signals less efficiently. Message are slower to and from the brain. Heat further slows, and can stop the communication from the brain and spinal cord.

Does lupus get worse with heat?

Studies have found that “75 percent of patients with systemic lupus and 90 percent of discoid lupus patients will suffer flare-ups of symptoms from even brief exposures to sun or heat.”

Is lupus better in warm weather?

New research presented November 10 at the 2019 American College of Rheumatology–Association of Rheumatology Professionals Annual Meeting found evidence to back up what many patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have long-observed: Their symptoms can worsen or improve with changes in weather, such as ...