The mayor lost 15 pounds: Suffering from rare disease

- of Course, feared that it could be cancer. But study of symptoms was not now to it.

Vardes mayor Erik Buhl got something of a fright, as he recently was called by a doctor from Sydvestjysk Hospital in the middle of a meeting. The doctor asked Erik Buhl to come into the hospital immediately. He may not even run in the car. Instead, he was shortly after picked up by an ambulance and hospitalized.

the Doctors had found an alarmingly high content of lime in the blood. Also nyretallene was elevated.

Earlier, Erik Buhl involuntarily lost around 15 kilos in a few months.

- It will look beautiful with the weight loss, sounds the laconic from the mayor of Buhl.

Now the doctors after prolonged periods of clearing come forward to Erik Buhl suffer from the relatively rare and benign disease sarkodiose.

- the Disease can be treated, and of course it has been nice to get a diagnosis. It is not nice to walk around in the dark about what you fail. I am now partially begun to work again, says Erik Buhl to Ekstra Bladet.

the Mayor tells that he the next year, through a treatment with binyrebarkhormonet Prednisone.

Diet can completely cure the disease. But it can, however, lead to I rises again in importance, and that my head is becoming more round. But I expect then to drop a few pounds again, when the cure is over, says the mayor, who, by his own admission has it good.

- I have never felt really sick, and the mood is now, as it should be. The whole process has gone still and quiet, and I've got a perfect treatment by the doctors. The disease can be a little hard to diagnose. It is not such a type of disease, you just pull down from the shelf, tells the Erik Buhl.

Sarcoidosis is not a malignant disease. You perceive the disease as a disturbance of the body's immune system. This disturbance triggers an inflammatory condition, which allows changes in the tissue.

Changes are called granulomas, which means small round fortætninger. You do not know, however, what triggers this immune response. Possibly it can be something you have breathed, because the lungs are the organ most frequently attacked.

It will be seen, that there are more cases of sarcoidosis in some families (weak hereditary predisposition).

often in the form of "Löfgrens syndrome", which consists of:

Fever, muscle aches, weight loss, fatigue and shortness of breath that has come in the course of some ugerHævelse of joints and joint pain, especially in the ankle joint and in føddernePå the skin you can see knuderosen, there is a painful, red and round rash on the front of my calves (often over the shin)An x-ray of lungs shows enlarged lymph glands in the chest in the area between the lungerneVed acute sarcoidosis you get some times "the Herfords syndrome", which consists of:eye Irritation with tågesyn due to inflammation on the regnbuehinden (iridocyklitis)Inflammation of the spytkirtlerForstørrede the lymph nodes between the lungs

Many are without symptoms. The diagnosis is therefore often made on the grounds of an x-ray of the lungs, which has been taken by another årsagAndre has had increasing shortness of breath through some weeks, cough and træthedSygdommen can also show up because of symptoms from skin, eyes, nerves, liver, kidneys, or hjertePå the basis of the x-ray image of the lungs can sarcoidosis be divided into different stages, from stage I (least said) to stage IV (the most pronounced)

SOURCE: HEALTH.DK