Tips for daily life in SLE patients

As a patient with SLE, how should you face it in your daily life and embark on the road to recovery? The following suggestions may be helpful to you: 1. Accept the reality and face life with optimism.  Accept the reality that lupus is a chronic disease; talk to your family and friends more often; encourage and help each other with your friends; and make your daily life more fulfilling and meaningful.  Seek ways to relieve stress.  Patients should reduce the stress caused by the disease through different means, such as actively participating in cultural and sports activities that are beneficial to the body and mind, expanding social circles, taking the initiative to interact with trusted friends and relatives, seeking appropriate help, etc. Third, improve the body’s wakefulness.  Patients should be aware of changes in various parts of their body, such as sudden loss of vision, skin rashes, fever, fatigue, etc.  Avoid the triggers of the disease.  The causes of lupus vary from person to person, so patients should pay more attention to them, such as overexertion, exposure to sunlight, taking drugs indiscriminately, and cloudy air environment, etc.  V. Balanced nutritional diet.  Patients are generally weak due to the influence of diseases and drugs, so in daily life, they should absorb balanced nutrition from different foods and should not eat partially.  Sixth, proper exercise and rest.  Adequate sleep and suitable exercises (such as swimming in indoor pools, tai chi, etc.) can strengthen patients’ resistance and eliminate anxiety.  Seven, know the drugs taken.  Know the name, dosage and time of medication, and take the medication according to the doctor’s order, do not add or subtract medication without permission.  Follow up on time.  So that your health care provider can follow up your progress regularly.  Open communication and cooperation with your doctor.  In the process of follow-up, you should express your condition in detail to the doctor, do not hide your condition, if you do not understand the doctor’s expression, you should also take the initiative to ask, so that both doctors and patients can work together to overcome the disease.