The old “rabbit eyes”, beware of a thousand-year bone disease – ankylosing spondylitis “When I was in college, iritis came up, the eyes bleeding again, red and red. Classmates say I’m like a rabbit – white skin, good character, but also red eyes …… but more unexpectedly, I recurring red eyes of this old problem is caused by bone disease …… “In a hospital rheumatology department, just found out suffering from ankylosing spondylitis Li Bin (a pseudonym) said helplessly. The 27-year-old Li Bing had an iritis in high school, when it was the height of summer, coincidentally, and after swimming, and thought he had caught red-eye disease, I did not expect to cure, and then recurring episodes of red-eye when he went to college twice. But in the past six months, he found that the number of his red eyes increased, so he rushed to a hospital ophthalmology, but was told that the eye disease is only a symptom, the root of the disease is actually in the bone. Later in the rheumatology department of the hospital was diagnosed as suffering from ankylosing spondylitis. How did this happen? It turns out that the doctor asked in detail that Li Bing loves sports, but his knees and heels are often inexplicably red and swollen, and sometimes heel pain after a few steps, and his grandmother also suffered from hunchback. These seemingly unrelated eye problems are the “big clue” to ankylosing spondylitis. After the allopathic treatment in the hospital’s rheumatology department, Li Bing’s condition was effectively controlled, “rabbit eyes” no longer occur, and those knee and heel “minor problems” did not recur. A hospital rheumatologist introduced ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic progressive inflammatory disease that mainly affects the spine and can involve the sacroiliac and peripheral joints to varying degrees. It is an ancient disease, from thousands of years ago in the ancient Egyptian bones found evidence of it; 2000 years ago, the originator of Western medicine Hippocrates also described this type of sacral, spinal, cervical pain disease; it is also a chronic disease of Chinese medicine, “Huangdi Neijing” on ankylosing spondylitis is also related to the record. Then open the magazine, many ancient and modern celebrities, such as Columbus, Ostrovsky, Jay Chou, Tsai Shaofen, etc. are also patients with ankylosing spondylitis. A hospital rheumatology department has seen four or five cases of the disease this year. Although ankylosing spondylitis is a skeletal disease, it is also an autoimmune disease that occurs in young men between the ages of 16 and 30. Inflammation and ossification occur primarily in the lumbar, cervical and thoracic segments of the spinal joints and ligaments and sacroiliac joints, often involving the hip joint. However, its onset is not obvious and progresses slowly, mostly occurs when studying, working, developing career, it is not as high as the cardiovascular incidence, but the onset is extremely painful and torturous, even if lying down to rest and not moving, it is also exceptionally painful, and the disability rate is also very high. A hospital rheumatologist reminded that early ankylosing spondylitis will have back pain and morning stiffness but reduced after activity, some patients will also have asymmetric peripheral arthritis, such as knee pain, heel pain, etc. Some patients also have eye pain, lacrimation, photophobia and other manifestations of eye disease. The disease starts with intermittent pain, which gradually develops into persistent. When the inflammatory pain disappears, the spine will straighten from the bottom up and develop into a hunchback deformity, or even become disabled and unable to walk upright. It is important to note that ankylosing spondylitis also invades several systems and is associated with a variety of diseases, such as heart disease, neurological lesions, eye and ear lesions, etc. In particular, one quarter of patients with ankylosing spondylitis have a complication of iritis, which lasts about 4-8 weeks per episode and tends to recur. In some patients, iritis may also precede the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis. The iritis involves immune function and is difficult to prevent, but patients with ankylosing spondylitis should be careful not to overuse their eyes and stay away from radiation, get enough sleep, and seek medical attention in the event of eye discomfort, not self-medication. A hospital rheumatologist stressed that the cause of ankylosing spondylitis is closely related to genetics, infection, and immune environmental factors. The relevant research shows that 90% of patients with ankylosing spondylitis have genetic factors, which are closely related to genetic inheritance, especially the HLA-B27 gene. More than 90% of patients with the disease are positive for the HLA-B27 gene. More interestingly, most people who have ankylosing spondylitis are more intelligent. Smart people, who use their brains excessively, are also prone to the disease. At the same time, ankylosing spondylitis is extremely harmful to the human body and requires vigilance and attention to any abnormal symptoms that appear, and early and accurate diagnosis and active treatment of the disease is very important. The current level of science is not too difficult to diagnose ankylosing spondylitis, which can be detected by X-rays, CT films of the sacroiliac joints, etc. It can also be determined from an immunological point of view, by blood tests for the HLB27 gene.