Guest guest Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I love to see this! Thank God, someone posted something about EN. Thank you for Sharing. Sending lots of love out. Anjanette "AJ" Vivianowww.thirstyperfectionist.comTwitter: @thelabeau Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 My 21-year-old granddaughter has been told she has erythema nodosum, which results in swollen joints, red lumps, and pain from walking.She also finds it hard to swallow. She has seen many doctors, but nothing seems to help. Can you offer any advice?Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2087502/Ask-doctor-Why-dont-asthma-drugs-work-more.html#ixzz1jjOREt2sMrs V. Fiford, Grays, Essex.How frustrating and worrying for you both; but the most important thing I can tell you is that erythema nodosum almost always resolves spontaneously. This condition causes inflammation around the body and is a reaction to some other event in the body — it is not a diagnosis in itself.Your granddaughter's doctors will have been attempting to identify the cause of the inflammation, which characteristically causes red tender nodules, usually found on the shins, accompanied by fever, joint pains and a general sense of being unwell. The red lumps may be few in number and as large as a saucer, or multiple and the size of a pound coin. They may be tender and last just a few days, or they may be painless and more persistent.CONTACT DR SCURRTo contact Dr Scurr with a health query, write to him at Good Health, Daily Mail, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT or email drmartin@... - including contact details.Dr Scurr cannot enter into personal correspondence.His replies cannot apply to individual cases and should be taken in a general context.Always consult your own GP with any health worries. In about a third of cases no cause is found, but the common causes are streptococcal infection (streptococci are the bacteria that commonly cause tonsillitis), sarcoidosis (where areas of inflammation appear on the body) and tuberculosis. Your granddaughter will have had these conditions excluded. She will certainly have had a chest X-ray.Others possible causes include various bacterial infections such as salmonella, mycoplasma and chlamydia, viral infections such as glandular fever, and many types of medicines — such as the contraceptive pill or penicillin.My suspicion is that all of the possibilities will have been looked for and excluded, and she is probably one of the patients in whom no cause has been identified. Maybe there was an initial viral infection that triggered the response and, by the time she was referred and investigated, it had disappeared and could not be identified. However, I assure you that erythema nodosum is a condition where full resolution can be expected — if not in weeks, then within months.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2087502/Ask-doctor-Why-dont-asthma-drugs-work-more.html#ixzz1jjO72bwH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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