Medical Matters: What You Need to Know About Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

and welcome back thank you sir much appreciated stephen johnson's syndrome what is that why is it called that it sounds like a very expensive handbag yeah sure so usually most of the diseases are named after the founders so albert stevens and Frank Johnson are the pediatricians, meaning the doctor for the children, who discovered this syndrome in 1922.

So it's actually fairly new that it was discovered.

I've

heard the word syndrome for many, many years.

And I'm really glad that I have a professional to explain.

What is a syndrome?

So a syndrome is a word which comes from a Greek, run together.

So it's a group of symptoms, signs and symptoms, which happen or occur at the same time.

And then they give you a certain outcome or a diagnosis.

Meaning, like you have a Down syndrome, it has got traits or... symptoms or signs which actually as you look at them at the end of the day you say this is Down syndrome so a syndrome is just a group of symptoms signs and symptoms which run together at the same time and then calm it into a

You remember the political storm we had a couple of years ago when we were talking about is AIDS a disease or a syndrome and so forth.

So when we're speaking about Stephen Johnson syndrome, why is it a

syndrome? That's very good.

So you see, there's a first phase of it, the Stephen Jones syndrome.

So the first phase of it, and that's what is tricky to diagnose it.

It comes as a flu, like flu-like symptoms.

So that person will have like your chills, like fever, and then they have fatigue, they cough, you know, and they feel tired, and they come maybe and see you, Maybe they had seen another doctor, as I will explain the causes of the syndrome.

And then for you, at the beginning, probably you might think just the flu.

Yes.

Until then, they go into the second phase, which is the serious phase.

where now the body starts forming these skin rashes, and then the skin rashes grow into blisters.

The blisters, they erupt and then expose your skin, which now becomes very dangerous because it looks like now you have got fire from inside that is burning you and exposing, get exposed from outside.

And then you, because it affects both your skin and your mucosa.

Your mucosa is the lining that covers the inside of your body, especially on the exit of your body.

So you can imagine all the exits in your body that you can think of, even the inside of your body, which is mucosa, it gets affected.