So interesting! My husband's family had Crohn's everywhere, so now all three of my children do as well. One gets lupus from the medications (biologics, a whole slew of them but not the one you mention here)
Great work thanks for putting all this together.
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I'm so sorry about the Crohn's in your family. That's one my family seems to have escaped. It is true that lupus can be caused by some medicines--I'm not aware that biologics cause it, but extensive research has shown other substances and medicines can cause it. These include medicines to treat high blood pressure, and silicates. Twin studies show that genetics play a compelling role in lupus but that the environment also plays a very large role.
I hope your children are receiving good, effective treatment.
Regards, AG
"effective treatment" regarding anything gastrointestinal is an oxymoron. GI's push nothing but super expensive biologics for crohn's now. I recently heard from someone in the lyme community (those who are shunned by the standard medical community as lunatics and criminals) that lyme in combo with biologics causes lupus, and my daughter is now experiencing medically induced lupus for the third time. Good luck getting a GI to prescribe any thing else though. They've all gone brain dead from the kickbacks they get for prescribing biologics. It's likely my kids have lyme because it is rampant here. I just started treatment for lyme myself to see if it helps my knees.