Jörg Pilawa talks about rheumatic disease of his four year old daughter – t-online.de

Rheumatism knows no age limits – this experience had to make family Pilawa: In the four year-old daughter of television presenter Jörg Pilawa chronic arthritis was diagnosed two years ago. In an interview with the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag” he says now, as the family is dealing with the incurable disease

Symptoms occurred when his daughter was two years old. “Your knee, Hand and ankle joints were swollen, she did not get out of bed. ” The diagnosis rheumatism was a shock, so Pilawa (50). “You do not know if there will be new episodes, take the pain, other joints affected?”

“Friday Splash Day”

At that time could the little ones be helped with cortisone injections. Meanwhile include the rheumatoid syringes to their daily lives. Pilawa and his wife Irina could be show in a special clinic on how to set this yourself professionally in the thigh. “You get a basic drug which has a regulating effect on the immune system. Friday Splash Day,” said the presenter.

Before her daughter they had the disease focuses not large, told Pilawa. “In their view, it is not sick. Sometimes you do stop to hurt anything. We do not want that it sees itself as chronically ill and feels as if not a little fine. Otherwise, we try normally go on living.”

“Rheumatism knows no age limits”

He wanted to draw attention to the subject, explains Pilawa. “We always experience again that people do not know that Rheumatism knows no age limits.”

According to the Bundesverband eV Children rheumatism suffer in Germany about 15,000 children and young people on inflammatory rheumatic diseases, at about ten to 20 percent, the disease becomes chronic.