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Gennaro Gattuso He has always been a great fighter in his private life and as a footballer. The Napoli coach has been fighting for years against a very annoying disease, the immunological one, that affects the eyes: myasthenia. “I suffer from an autoimmune disease, myasthenia. I have not been myself for 10 days and I want to tell all the children who do not look good in the mirror.”
What is myasthenia?
Myasthenia is a condition in which everyone muscles volunteers get weak and tired quickly. For this type of problem, unfortunately for those affected, there is no definitive cure but an appropriate treatment that helps reduce symptoms. The causes of this autoimmune disease can be many but the triggering problem is the interruption of the correct communication between nerves and muscles, caused by the fact that the body begins to produce antibodies that inhibit the activity of the receptors for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which generally stimulates the muscles.
Ocular myasthenia, the one that affected Gattuso, is a form limited to the muscles of the eyes and eyelids that occurs because some autoantibodies inhibit the mechanism. nervous that allows the muscles belonging to the ocular compartment to contract. The typical symptoms of ocular myasthenia are two: diplopia (double vision as Gattuso also said) and ptosis, or drooping eyelid.
Ringhio’s message
“It’s not been me for 10 days and I want to tell all the kids that they are afraid when they have something strange and they don’t look good in the mirror: life is beautiful and you have to face it without fear, without hiding. And I’m still alive anyway. , because I have heard rumors that I have a month to live, but rest assured that I am not dying. I have had this disease for 10 years, this is the third time it has hit me and this time it has hit me hard, but don’t worry because the eye will return to its place and I will be more beautiful, we hope, as soon as possible. Now I’m not beautiful in sight, but this too will pass “, this is the comment as always never trivial by Gattuso.
The former player and coach of the Milan Then he concluded with a message of great maturity and dignity: “The boys were so close to me, although I hid it in the last few days I was struggling a lot: seeing double 24 hours a day is not easy, only a madman like me can stand up. And I don’t like to see people get excited. see me like this … But you have to accept it because life is worse, and I am lucky to do what I like in life ”.
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