Living With Lupus

How to manage when your body attacks itself

- Samantha Rideout

! LATIN FOR “WOLF,” lupus allegedly takes its name from skin lesions that once reminded people of wolf bites. It’s a systemic autoimmune disease: “systemic” because it can aect any or all of the body and “autoimmune” because it’s caused by an overzealous immune system targeting normal, healthy tissues.