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Lupus anti body what are the symptoms?

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Lupus: Lupus it is an autoimune disease. Means you have antibodies attacking your own body structures. One of the downsize of this disease is that can affect adversely the pregnancy.If you are a woman, pregnant you should definetely should see a doctor.Typically it appears as a rash on your face in form of butterfly when you expose your face to sun. There is treatment to slow down the disease progression.

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Autoimmune: People with lupus develop auto antibodies - antibodies against self - thus auto immune. Our patients make antibodies against their own tissue. Thus we see antibodies against cells, cell particles both inside and outside the nucleus of the cell. This can initiate immune responses against the self tissue and depending on the mechanism we can see changes around the body.

Answered 3/26/2013

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