Chapter 267 - Perverted disease! (1/2)

Chapter 267: Perverted disease!

The rheumatology department was a rather strange department. It wasn’t that the doctors or nurses in this department were strange, but rather that the department’s diseases were strange. It wouldn’t be possible to understand rheumatism without having a doctorate degree or equivalent. However, you would only need an undergraduate degree in order to treat rheumatism. That was because the majority of rheumatism patients would only have their symptoms treated. Treating the foundational problem was far too much to ask for.

Most rheumatology diseases were autoimmune diseases. Basically, the primary reason for rheumatism and its causes were still unclear! Regardless, your environment, lifestyle habits, and emotions might all be factors in getting rheumatism. The majority of rheumatism cases were difficult to cure!

Older farmers, especially older women, had worked hard for their entire lives. Now that they were older and in better financial condition, they no longer needed to perform heavy work. It was time for them to enjoy their lives. Yet, when they got up in the morning, they would feel sore all over, with fingers as stiff as iron bars. Those who weren’t in much pain had probably done much good in their previous life!

Even if they went to the hospital for treatment, the doctor would at most be able to give them some pain medicine. That would then result in stomach pain after taking the medication for a few days. When they were in too much pain, they would search all over for scorpions, centipedes, and other so-called home remedies. Every year, there were countless Chinese people who would accidentally poison themselves to death while trying to cure their own rheumatism. However, what could really even be done about this? The hospitals couldn’t cure the rheumatism!

There were also young and beautiful women who might go on vacation to a beach and comfortably enjoy sunbathing on the sand for several days. However, they might then suddenly have butterfly-shaped or round red spots start appearing on their face. Upon getting checked at a hospital, they would then learn that they had lupus erythematosus, commonly referred to as simply lupus! The medical field would refer to lupus as the precursor to cancer!

Maybe lupus was a pervert among diseases because it really favored young women! Lupus was also fond of visiting women who had already given birth to children! When women became pregnant, as well as after giving birth, their immune system would undergo massive internal changes. Maybe such massive changes would cause an opening for lupus to invade! Please treat your woman well if she was willing to give birth to a child for you! She was truly risking her life in order to do so!

Receiving too much sunshine on your skin would cause your skin to peel off. Skin was the first layer of protection for the human body. Once the skin became peeled off, the surface blood vessels would become exposed. Maybe that was how lupus would manage to invade the body.

When under the sun, please remember to wear sunscreen! This wouldn’t be about vanity. This was about self-protection!

Maybe some people would say, “But my grandfather never used sunscreen in his life, and went out every day to work in the fields with no problem!”

Don’t be stubborn! It would be best if you didn’t get lupus, but lupus would be incurable if you got it. The majority of lupus patients would end up dying of kidney failure! So, if it was hot outside, please put on some sunscreen when going outside! It would be good for your health, and you can even be vain with it, so why not!

During the time of the Opium War when China was under Europe’s and America’s control, a certain rather special event occurred. Many of the newbie soldiers at a certain scouting outpost kept getting lupus. The medical experts kept investigating this matter and finally arrived at the theory that too much exposure to sunlight might lead to lupus.

The new soldiers were unaccustomed to the UV rays in the plains. They would have to remain standing for long periods of time under the sun. In just two short days, large patches of skin on their necks and faces would start to peel off. The unfortunate soldiers would then get lupus right afterwards!

Still, overall speaking, women, especially young women, would more commonly get lupus. As for all rheumatic diseases, apart from gout, most rheumatic diseases would affect women more commonly than men.

Rheumatic diseases were quite common as well. These diseases were quite ridiculous and incredibly cruel. After getting a rheumatic disease, it wouldn’t kill you very quickly. Instead, it would torture you slowly with many years of chronic pain, making you gradually lose your ability to move and become crippled before it would finally kill you!