What Causes Fever And Persistent Sweating When Diagnosed With Lupus?

Posted on Mon, 3 Apr 2017

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Question : My mother has lupus and leukemia cmml and gets a fever every morning and terrible sweats every day she is no longer on chemotherapy

Answered by Dr. Dr. Shruti Rijhwani (6 hours later)

Brief Answer:
She needs a review.

Detailed Answer:
Dear Madam,

Thank you for posting your query on HCM.

Well madam, it can either be because of Lupus or due to relapse of CMML . Night sweats are very common in blood malignancies . So I would recommend atleast getting a CBC with differential done and also get a peripheral smear done to look for abnormal cells .Also ESR and CRP , urine routine , RFT , LFT to look for disease activity of lupus. Unless we have some tests in hand it will be very difficult to comment on whats happening..

Take care.

Dr. Shruti

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