Lupus symptoms medications
Neuropsychiatric syndromes can result when SLE affects the central or peripheral nervous systems. The American College of Rheumatology defines 19 neuropsychiatric syndromes in systemic lupus symptoms. The diagnosis of neuropsychiatric syndromes concurrent with SLE is one of the most difficult challenges in medicine, because it can involve so many different patterns of symptoms, some of which may be mistaken for signs of infectious disease or stroke.
Certain medications may rarely precipitate lupus in predisposed individuals. Generally symptoms take some months to develop. Drug-induced lupus does not usually affect the skin. The most frequent drugs to be implicated are: Hydralazine, Carbamazepine, Lithium, Phenytoin, Sulphonamides, Minocycline.