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vallee
03-09-09, 12:52
can anybody tell me what this means please thanks
Trish@Somerset
03-09-09, 13:00
Don't know about the rheumatism but nephritis is kidney failure

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/nephritis1.shtml
vallee
03-09-09, 13:04
is it oh dear he was only 20 years of age too thanks Trish
Sweetpea
03-09-09, 13:05
Ascitesmight be cancer of something in the stomach area .... presumably the first word which has me foxed at the moment

http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Resourcessupport/Symptomssideeffects/Othersymptomssideeffects/Ascites

he wasn't a well chap for 20 poor thing
Trish@Somerset
03-09-09, 13:08
Anasarca

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anasarca
vallee
03-09-09, 13:09
firs word is Anasarca
Stella
03-09-09, 13:09
Ascites is the accumulation of fluid in the abdominal area - no doubt caused by the nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys) - nephritis causing his kidneys to malfunction and not get rid of his bodily fluids. Anasarca is swelling.
vallee
03-09-09, 13:11
hi Stella would the rheumatism have contributed to his death then?
Stella
03-09-09, 13:12
No Val, not rheumatism alone. Nephritis, leading to kidney failure though definitely would.
vallee
03-09-09, 13:13
I wonder if they moved from Shoreditch to Portsea for his health ??? they used to suggest sea air didnt they for illnesses
Sweetpea
03-09-09, 13:14
Sounds to me as though he was sickly from birth

Poor chap
Stella
03-09-09, 13:16
This moving to the coast for health reasons Val was usually for tuberculosis. We had a huge TB hospital here years ago right on the seafront. Demolished now though - St Lukes' hospital.
vallee
03-09-09, 13:18
yes Tricia thats what I thought too his mother was quite old when she had him maybe that didnt help ??
Thanks Stella.
Olde Crone
03-09-09, 19:02
My mother developed severe rheumatoid arthritis, literally overnight, when she was 52.

She had previously suffered from and continued to suffer from, nephritis. I hadn't ever considered the two conditions were linked, but this has made me wonder now.

OC
vallee
03-09-09, 19:23
I have found out a lot today OC
HarrysMum
03-09-09, 19:48
I have an auto-immune inflamatory illness which used to be one of a group of illnesses generally called rheumatism. Mine often has kidney disease as one of it's symtoms.

Perhaps it was something similar.