Diagnose 3 incurable diseases after getting teenage female kiss disease...What kind of disease is it?
Apr 03, 2025
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According to foreign media such as the Daily Mail, Devin Carr, 19, who lives in Michigan, the U.S., was diagnosed with 'kiss disease' last year.
Kiss disease is medically called 'infectious mononucleosis', 'monocytosis' and is caused by infection of Epstein-Barr virus (a type of Herpes virus) or giant cell virus or other pathogen. It is mainly infected with saliva such as saliva or body fluids such as semen.
Once infected, the virus remains in the body for life.
They are mainly infected in their 10s and 20s, and symptoms such as abdominal pain, eye pain, muscle pain, fever, sore throat, rash, and fatigue appear.
In most cases, symptoms naturally heal within 2 to 4 weeks, but Carr's symptoms did not disappear even after 6 months.
After contracting Keith's disease, she developed three autoimmune diseases: celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Celiac disease, a chronic digestive disorder, is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system overreacts to gluten, an insoluble protein in wheat, rye, and barley, and can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, fatigue, weight loss, anemia, and osteoporosis.
Inflammatory bowel disease is a disease in which intestinal inflammation improves and recurrences are chronically repeated. It is largely divided into 'Ugus colitis' and 'Cron's disease'.
Suspected symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease are abdominal pain and diarrhea that are repeated several times a day. In the case of ulcerative colitis, bloody excrement and fecal urgency are accompanied, and Crohn's disease may be accompanied by weight loss, lesions around the anus, and general helplessness.
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune and inflammatory disease that causes pain in certain areas of the body. It usually develops on the hands and feet, but if not treated, it progresses to chronicity, causing deformation and disability.
Medical staff have not been able to determine what caused her to suffer from autoimmune diseases.
In the midst of this, a recent study has suggested that the Epstein-Barr virus can generate genes that cause certain autoimmune diseases.
The researchers found that the protein produced by Epstein-Barr virus, 'EBNA2', may cause certain genes that make it more vulnerable to autoimmune diseases.
However, more research is needed because the association was found, not the direct cause, the researchers said.
Epstein-Barr virus is also known to increase the risk of infection such as HIV, rubella, heptatitis, and toxoplasma.
"If you're slow to recover from a kiss disease, get a further test for your autoimmune disease," Carr said in a TikTok video.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
