SLE is a complex systemic immune disease that causes damage to many organs of patients, including the skin, kidneys and heart, and active outbreaks of the disease may cause acute renal failure and lupus encephalitis, which are life-threatening. This disease is not curable and requires long-term medication and regular follow-up examinations to control the development of the disease. What are the precautions to be taken by lupus patients during follow-up examinations? Regular checkups are very important for patients with lupus erythematosus. 1. Immunosuppressive drugs and hormones are used to treat the disease, and the types and doses of drugs vary among patients, so regular follow-up examinations are needed to observe the effects and adjust the treatment plan in time. 2. If the disease control is stable, the doctor will also consider reducing the drug dosage. Patients with lupus who visit the doctor for the first time need to bring all previous examinations, such as routine blood and urine tests, immunological tests, hepatitis and tuberculosis tests, etc. If all kinds of examinations have been recently checked in a tertiary care hospital, there is no need to repeat the tests. During the consultation, the doctor will pay attention to the patient’s clinical symptoms, such as hair loss and joint swelling, etc. Whether spontaneous miscarriage or fetal abortion has occurred is also of great concern to the doctor to determine whether the lupus patient also has antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. The doctor will make a judgment on the condition based on the patient’s description and previous examination indicators. At the beginning of treatment, patients need to come for a follow-up visit in two weeks to observe whether there are side effects in the drug regimen; 2. After that, patients can have a follow-up visit once a month, and each time they need to do routine urine and blood tests to check whether the drugs damage the liver, kidneys and hematopoietic system, and the routine urine tests can also monitor whether patients have lupus nephritis; 3. Every 3-6 months, patients need to do immune system tests, such as immune 7, autoantibody tests, etc., to monitor red blood cells. If the ds-DNA antibody titer decreases and the complement C3 value increases, it means that the disease tends to improve. However, patients do not need to be overly obsessed with the immune indexes. There are times when the immune indexes are abnormal, but the patient does not have any symptoms or organ involvement, so we do not need special treatment and just pay close attention.