Autoimmune illness is often unrecognised

DO your joints chronically ache? Are you always tired for no real reason? Does your skin come out in mysterious rashes? 

There might, of course, be very simple explanations for all of these things. But there is also a chance that you could have lupus, an autoimmune disease — whereby the immune system attacks healthy cells, tissue and organs.

Despite the fact that lupus is much more common than more publicised diseases like leukaemia or multiple sclerosis, it remains relatively unrecognised by both the general public and medical professionals.