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| What you should know for SLE treatment | 
After being diagnosed with SLE, you should not only rely on the doctors for 
treatment. Just as Dr.Hou said, the treatment effects depend on the medicine and 
treatment, but it more depends on yourselves.
  Yes, patients are the subjects of the treatment, the understanding, 
cooperation and confidence of patients to great extent decide the treatment 
effects. In order to achieve better effects, there are something patients should know 
for SLE treatment.
  1. Correct and scientific learning about this disease. Up to now, just like 
diabetes and other types of chronic disease, there is no certain complete cure 
for SLE, but it is possible for the patients to control illness condition, 
improve life quality with proper treatment. So after being diagnosed, patients 
should not be intimidated by it and lose their confidence.
  2. No blindly trying everything without any scientific basis. The anxiety 
of patients can be understood. However, patients must not blindly believe the so 
called cure. No matter where you are, patients need to go to professional 
rheumatologists for regular treatment and follow-up.
  3. Self-protection and daily care. In daily life, patients of SLE should 
take proper self-protection measures, such as avoiding direct sunshine by long 
sleeves, umbrella, avoiding cold stimulation avoiding muddy air.
  4. Reasonable application of hormone and DMARDs. As we all know, SLE is a 
refractory disease, so most patients have to accept the hormone and DMARDs 
treatment. At the same time, these medicines have certain side-effects. For this 
condition, patients should have a reasonable understanding. If the side-effects 
can be controlled in certain degree, the treatment still can be applied.
  5.
 Combined treatment of TCM and western medicine for SLE is better then 
single medicine. Don’t be superstitious to any one medicine, neither traditional 
Chinese medicine nor western medicine. Some medicines have good effects for some 
patients, but there is no medicine which is suitable for all patients. So 
patients need to find the most suitable treatment according to the illness 
condition. According to decades of clinical observation, only the combined 
treatment of TCM and western medicine for SLE can achieve better effects on 
controlling illness progress and improving life quality, which is the main 
treatment propose.