lupus facts #7

5 percent of all cases of lupus are in children. About 20% of systemic lupus patients are diagnosed before 20 years of age. In the majority of these individuals, the illness begins around the time of puberty, or 12 to 14 years of age.

children get lupus too!lupus is that it does not discriminate, there are even stories of children being born with it.

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