What is Lupus?

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Lupus is a chronic disease that causes chronic inflammation, pain and swelling in joints but also may cause inflammation in multiple tissues and organs of the body such as skin, kidneys, lungs, pericardium or nervous system.

Likely, Lupus results from a mix of inherited predisposition and several environmental stimuli like viruses, sunlight, stress or drug allergies.

In Lupus patients the immune system misfires and begins to make “autoantibodies” which attack the patient’s own tissues. Patients with Lupus have lost “the self-tolerance” and have a kind of allergy to its own organs.