[slowhandluke]

my husband got hemolytic anemia in his 20s and was just recently diagnosed wiht lupus over 20 years later.

I don't know anything about hemolytic anemia, but for the lupus you should read my other posts on this thread starting with 13 and 21. There is an underlying infection for lupus, and there is a way to kill the bugs. The bugs were just very hard to find, and are hard to kill, but it looks like it can be done.

[pollyannaish]

Thanks!

[riri]

I agree with that theory.

Take for instance MS, another AI disease. It is not fully uncommon to find clusters of MS. Family members, neighbors, childhood friends, etc. To me that in itself supports that it must be environmental in nature or a particular bug that infected these people and they, for whatever reason, were suseptible.

[riri]

Interesting. I think it is important to remember HIV and Hep C. Both diseases took quite some time to isolate the bug, if I am correct. In fact, in certain circles there are still arguments regarding the HIV bug.

But certainly, Hep C took years before they found the actual virus and gave it the name of Hepatitis C.