 [ Symptoms ] can hiv cause throat inflammation as a presenting symptom [ Disease ] lupus is an autoimmune aw toe ih myoon disease your body is immune system is like an army with hundreds of soldiers the immune system is job is to fight foreign substances in the body like germs and viruses but in autoimmune diseases the immune system is out of control it attacks healthy tissues not germs you can not catch lupus from another person it is not cancer and it is not related to aids lupus is a disease that can affect many parts of the body everyone reacts differently one person with lupus may have swollen knees and fever another person may be tired all the time or have kidney trouble someone else may have rashes lupus can involve the joints the skin the kidneys the lungs the heart andor the brain if you have lupus it may affect two or three parts of your body usually one person does not have all the possible symptoms there are three main types of lupus systemic lupus erythematosus eh rith eh muh toe sus is the most common form it is sometimes called sle or just lupus the word systemic means that the disease can involve many parts of the body such as the heart lungs kidneys and brain sle symptoms can be mild or serious discoid lupus erythematosus mainly affects the skin a red rash may appear or the skin on the face scalp or elsewhere may change color drug induced lupus is triggered by a few medicines it is like sle but symptoms are usually milder most of the time the disease goes away when the medicine is stopped more men develop drug induced lupus because the drugs that cause it hydralazine and procainamide are used to treat heart conditions that are more common in men