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Kids get diseases like lupus, too. As researchers hunt better treatments, this camp brings joy
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Kids get diseases like lupus, too. As researchers hunt better treatments, this camp brings joy

[html]Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, plays a game of Gaga Ball with fellow campers at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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A doctor advising ... sleepaway camp? That’s how a 12-year-old         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/autoimmune-disease-lupus-diagnosis-symptoms-b1f2ba32883c63fff1af689a45281305">diagnosed with lupus found himself laughing on a high-ropes course as fellow campers hoisted him into the air.

“It’s really fun,” said Dylan Aristy Mota, thrilled that he got a chance at the rite of childhood — thanks to doctors reassuring his mom that they’d be at         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="http://www.apnews.com/3ec5d635104e6f9afe5d4c2ad45aca40">this upstate New York camp, too. Dylan felt good knowing if “anything else pops up, they can catch it faster than if we had to wait til we got home.”

It may sound surprising but diseases like lupus, myositis and some forms of arthritis —         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/autoimmune-symptoms-rheumatology-diagnosis-steps-ecc5981788b598fe08d2c19a0fa1523b">when your immune system attacks your body instead of protecting it — don’t just         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/photo-essay/autoimmune-disease-lupus-diagnosis-symptoms-c4d3ba32ccd0e0be779e712f4d8bf4d9">strike adults. With the exception of Type 1 diabetes, these autoimmune diseases are more rare in kids but they do happen.

People often ask, “Can kids have arthritis? Can kids have         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/video/inside-job-when-the-body-the-body-attacks-itself-6dfdac3e5fcb4f69ba94e64d47bd361c">lupus?” said Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares, a pediatric rheumatologist at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, which partnered with Frost Valley YMCA last summer so some of those youngsters could try a traditional sleepaway camp despite a strict medicine schedule and nervous parents.

“Imagine for an adult, it’s difficult. If you have that disease since you’re young, it’s very difficult to, you know, cope with,” she said.


   
       
   

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Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, plays a game of Gaga Ball with fellow campers at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)    >



       

       
       
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Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, plays a game of Gaga Ball with fellow campers at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)


               
           
       
       
   

   
   
   


               
           
       

The younger that someone is when certain illnesses hit, especially before puberty, the more severe symptoms may be. And while genes can make people of any age more vulnerable to autoimmune conditions, usually it takes other factors that stress the immune system,         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/multiple-sclerosis-epstein-barr-study-b325dceb5612e4ec7f22c8f25901e5eb">such as infections, to cause the disease to develop.


   
   
       
           
               
   
   


   
   


       
   



           
       
   
   

But genes are more to blame when disease strikes early in life, said Dr. Laura Lewandowski of the National Institutes of Health who helps lead international research into genetic changes that fuel childhood lupus.

Symptoms among children can be sneaky and hard to pinpoint. Rather than expressing joint pain, a very young child might walk with a limp or regress to crawling, Vasquez-Canizares said.


   
       
   

“Before, I looked like everybody else, like normal,” Dylan said. Then, “my face turned like the bright pink, and it started to like get more and more red.”

His family thought it must be allergies, and Dylan recalled many doctor appointments before being diagnosed with lupus last January.

Treatment has unique challenges, too. Medicines that tamp down symptoms do so by suppressing young immune systems — just as they’re learning to fend off germs. They can also can affect whether kids build strong bones.

Research underway to help kids


           
               
                   

   

       
   


       

       
     
   

   
   
       

   

   
       

   

   
       

   

   
       

   

   
       

   

   
       

   

   
       

   

   
       

   
Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, center right, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, plays a game of paint tag at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)    >



       

       
       
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Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, center right, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, plays a game of paint tag at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)