Feb
24
What Causes My Red Face?
Author: Bart Nieuwenhuijsen
There are many things that can cause a face to become red temporarily, such as consumption of alcohol or spicy food, being embarrassed in social situations or having a sensitivity to niacin or mono-sodium glutamate (MSG). However, there are many conditions that can be the cause of more chronic facial redness. This article describes a few of them.
- Cushing's Syndrome
Cushing's syndrome is a hormone disorder that is caused by the exposure of the body to too much cortisol (a stress hormone). Cushing's syndrome is relatively rare, and in addition to redness of the face, includes the following symptoms: high blood pressure, high blood glucose levels, fatigue, irritability, depression and anxiety. Women with Cushing's syndrome often show signs of increased hair growth on the face, neck, abdomen, chest and thighs. - Lupus (SLE, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)
Lupus is an autoimmune disease affecting multiple organs and tissues, including the skin, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, joints, brain and blood. The facial redness that is sometimes associated with lupus is a rash across the cheeks and nose. The facial redness with lupus exists in a butterfly pattern (butterfly rash) and does not involve the forehead. Lupus patients can also have skin rashes on other parts of their body, which often develop or get worse after sun exposure. Lupus is frequently diagnosed by antibody testing. - Rosacea
The facial redness of rosacea involves the cheeks, nose and the forehead and develops gradually. It starts out as a redness of the face that resembles facial flushing that does not to go away and in many cases looks like sunburn. However, while the initial facial redness may vary from day to day, rosacea symptoms progressively get worse: in addition to the initial facial redness, small papules and pustules appear on the face, which may burst and ooze. The face often feels itchy and painful. In progressive rosacea, capillaries become permanently widened (telangiectasias). These telangiectasias do not respond well to topical treatments and cause the face to have a "residual" redness. Telangiectasias can be effectively treated with intense pulsed light. - Scarlet fever
Scarlet fever is caused by an exotoxin from the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes. Clinical signs include a high fever and a sore throat followed by a rough (sandpaper-like) rash over the body lasting for 3-4 days. The skin will start to peel after the rash is gone. Other classic signs of scarlet fever are a bright red tongue with a strawberry appearance and a facial redness on the cheeks (the nose and areas surrounding the mouth are usually not red). - Rubella
Rubella (also called German measles) is a disease caused by the rubella virus. It has an incubation period of 2-3 weeks and symptoms are a rash that first develops on the face, which spreads to the trunk, arms and legs. Complications due to rubella are rare, but rubella can cause complications during pregnancy if the infection occurs within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Tags: facial redness, lupus, pictures of lupus disease, red face
The hair loss in lupus can be either “non scarring” or “scarring”. In the scarring type, there is usually a red, scaly atrophic patch of skin in the area of the baldness, and I don’t see that in the pix. The nonscarring type is usually more generalized than yours is. In fact, your clinical appearance is more of a genetic male pattern baldness. Your dermatologist can obviously make a better assessment than I can from a couple of pix, though.
just diagnosed systemic lupus?
i was just diagnosed with systemic lupus.i am devastated and scared and in a lot of pain.came home from docs and told husband-his reply “not my problem”.told mom- her reply “look at my pictures from my cruise,can you petsit for me next week?” told sis-her reply “can you babysit?” told mom in law i would need her help with kids and ride to docs-she lives 10 minute drive away-her reply-she forgot to show up to take me to docs.told dad-his reply ‘ isn’t that a deadly disease” havent heard from him since,a month ago.told kids-2 teens-their reply-I wish it would kill you.you are a terrible mother cause youre too sick to drive me here and there.i have no one at all to talk to.no one cares.don’t know what to do.
i have had my blood tested i am positive for antinuclear antibodies.i do not have lupus because of anything that i ate or drank.that kind of lupus is called drug induced lupus.once you quit the drug of offense the lupus symptoms go away.you never show antibodies in your blood.you just have lupus-like symptoms.i have true medical lupus conformed by blood test.
I understand the doctor told you that you have lupus. You might have an excitotoxin poisoning, instead. It is caused by ingesting msg and artificial sweeteners.
“There are 92 documented symptoms of Aspartame Poisoning leading to coma and death. The majority of these symptoms are neurological, because the Aspartame attacks and destroys the nervous system. Some of the symptoms of Aspartame Poisoning are covered below.”
“One of these symptoms is Lupus, which has become almost as rampant as Multiple Sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.”
“When someone develops Lupus as a result of using Aspartame, they usually do not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. They then continue to use Aspartame, which aggravates the Lupus to such a degree that it sometimes becomes life threatening.”
“When people finally get off the Aspartame, the severity of the Lupus decreases.”
“It is generally believed that once you develop Lupus, you will have it for the rest of your life, but this is not so. Lupus can be defeated with some very special treatment.”
The video has a lot of information on aspartame poisoning.
Antibodies and Immune system help?
Anyone know what the antibodies and immune system does in Lupus Disease?
I’m doing a project and I can’t find a clear answer.
Also, where can I get good pictures of antibodies?
Help, Please!
Thanks
Should I get tested for Lupus?
Hi, I’m 16 years old. I’ve been suffering from bumps and redness on my face (cheeks, mostly), and it’s been something which I cannot get rid of. I thought it was just acne. My mom, however, is currently studying to be a nurse, and in her textbook she stumbled upon a picture of the butterfly rash often associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (known as Lupus/SLE). I didn’t think much of it, until my mom and I researched the symptoms.
These are the symptoms I’m currently experiencing:
*Rash?
*Extreme fatigue
*Depression
*Joint pain (mostly in my knees and ankles)
*Migraine-like headaches almost every day for the past month
*Difficulty concentrating
*Psychosis
*Inflamation of organs-last year I was diagnosed with gastreoenteritis.
*Also, about a week and a half ago my back (around the kidney area) started hurting
*I thought it was my period, but I have dried up blood that comes out everytime I wipe after urinating.
*I have virtually no appetite.
*My vision has been blurred the past few days.
*The “flares” started about 2 weeks after the fatigue.
What do you think about it?
Thank you in advance.
P.S- The symptoms listed started before I found out about the disease…less chance of psychosomatic diagnosis
Yes, you should probably get tested!
Lupus is an Autoimmune disease, which is caused by both genetic and environmental factors, so, if you have a family history of auto immune diseases (Such as Crohns Disease, Scleroderma, Rheumatoid Arthritis ect…) You are at an increased risk, also if you are female and between 15 to 45.
It takes awhile to diagnose Lupus, but your doctor will (most likely) refer you to an Internal Medicine Doctor, or may order the test themselves (Blood test! Urine test!) And depending on what the doctor thinks, the blood test will include an ANA (Antinuclear Antibody) test (Very important test!!! if this comes out positive, it could mean Lupus, or another auto-immune disorder!!!)
Some other blood tests may also include tests for Hep. C, and Hep D, along with a Creatinine test, Bilrubin and Albumin test (Too much to type- Google it!) and ALT test (To see how epic your liver is doing!)
So YES. Get tested; because like I said, it takes awhile to diagnose because the symptoms mimic so many other diseases; it could take months.
Good Luck!
I’m 17 and had Lupus symptoms too; test results come back in January (Next month!) Hope 4 the best!
Kidney Disease Campaign?
Hi, I’m doing some work for a non-profit organization benefiting those living with kidney diseases and I was asked to come up with a campaign leading up to one of our big events. The campaign is to be through facebook and I’ve thought of a couple of options:
1. We ask facebook fans to write something on their arm in support of kidney disease survivors (options for the words to be written: hope, faith, stand up)
take a picture of the temporary tattoo and post it as their profile picture
2. An art competition to come up with either a new logo or symbol for kidney disease. Lupus, for example, has the symbol of a purple butterfly representing a hope for a cure from the disease. Kidney diseases, as far as I am aware, do not have a similar symbol.
I was just wondering what you thought of these ideas:
Would you participate?
What other words do you think could be used?
How would you show your support for the cause?
Any other ideas for campaigns?
Oxford’s minority, I realize this. We already have a facebook group with thousands of members and we have been receiving emails and messages asking of ways that they can easily volunteer and show support without donating money (we don’t like to encourage not donating but raising awareness is one of our main goals).
That is why we are creating a little contest/campaign to add to our already large facebook group in order to promote awareness as well as lead up to one of our events.
Hi i’m 44years old.I went to my primarily doc cause i was in so much pain all my joints were really hurting me, so we did blood work, and he told me that i don’t have LUPUS but he puts me on Prednisone5MG i found that kind of weird.Prednisone5MG is for lupus patients, but any ways i went to see a bone doc wish is a rheumatologists and he did blood work as well and he said yes that i have lupus.So now i’m on hydroxychloroquine200MH and on Prednisone5MG OK so now what? Now i’m going for a 3rd doc….yes i’m worried, but i’m in GOD HANDS! Auriey <3