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Doctors Explain 12 Things That Help if You Live With Lupus
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that causes skin, joints, kidneys, brain, blood cells, heart, and lungs inflammation. Like other autoimmune diseases, your immune system attacks your body’s tissues. Lupus means “wolf” in Latin. A 13th-century doctor first used this word to describe the facial lesions he found on a patient because they reminded him of…