Lupus:Causes, Symptoms and Research

Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue.  This results in symptoms such as inflammation, swelling, and damage to joints, skin, kidneys, blood, the heart and lungs.

Lupus makes the immune system unable to differentiate between antigens (a substance capable of inducing a specific immune response) and healthy tissue.  This leads the immune system to direct antibodies against the healthy tissue – not just antigens – causing swelling, pain and tissue damage.

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