Recommendations for improving general health to avoid flares include decreasing sun exposure, getting sufficient sleep, eating a healthy diet, decreasing stress, and exercising regularly. Some people believe that noticing and responding to these warning signs will allow a patient with SLE to prevent a flare, or at least to decrease its severity. A disorder in which the body's antibodies mistake the body's own tissues for foreign invaders. The immune system then attacks and causes damage to these tissues. Chromosomes contain genes, structures that direct the growth and functioning of all the cells and systems in the body.
Chromosomes are responsible for passing on hereditary traits from parents to child.
Further Reading Books Aaseng, Nathan. Hahn, Bevra Hannahs. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. In Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed., edited by Anthony S. Fauci, et al. Long, James W. The Essential Guide to Chronic Illness.