- Educating the patient and discussing his illness.
- Reduce exposure to sunlight.
- Drug therapy is used in active periods of the disease because there is no evidence that the use of drugs in inactive periods changes the course and progression of the disease.
- Joint pain, inflammation and fever are treated with anti-inflammatory drugs NSAIDs.
Antimalarial drugs are used to treat mild skin conditions and arthritis that have not responded to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.
Corticosteroids by oral or intravenous doses and immunosuppressives such as azathioprine and cyclophosphamide are essential for more severe conditions such as kidney glomerulonephritis, vascular inflammation, blood disorders, neuropathies and brain diseases.
There are new drugs under clinical trials such as anti-CD40 Ligand Monoclonal Antibodies.
- Reduce exposure to sunlight.
- Drug therapy is used in active periods of the disease because there is no evidence that the use of drugs in inactive periods changes the course and progression of the disease.
- Joint pain, inflammation and fever are treated with anti-inflammatory drugs NSAIDs.
Antimalarial drugs are used to treat mild skin conditions and arthritis that have not responded to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.
Corticosteroids by oral or intravenous doses and immunosuppressives such as azathioprine and cyclophosphamide are essential for more severe conditions such as kidney glomerulonephritis, vascular inflammation, blood disorders, neuropathies and brain diseases.
There are new drugs under clinical trials such as anti-CD40 Ligand Monoclonal Antibodies.
