I read this week and interesting article from Health News Digest that made a plea to physicians to increase efforts to convince lupus patients to protect themselves from the sun. The plea came from Gerlinde Obermoser, MD, and Bernhard Zelger, MD, of Innsbruck Medical University in Austria.
"Patients with lupus have a triple need for photoprotection," they say. Lupus patients are more photosensitive than others, and medical treatments like immunosuppresants, can further increase the risk of non-melanoma skin cancer.
The doctor's have a point, and the need to recognize the greater dangers of photosensitivity is something we champion at About Lupus.
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