JUSTIN BIEBER CANCELED A TWO OR
FROM PERFORMING SAY HE’S
SUFFERING FROM A RARE DISORDER
CALLED RAMSEY SYNDROME, HE TOOK
TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO EXPLAIN IT.
>> JUSTIN HERE.
YOU CAN SEE THIS I IS NOT
BLINKEN, I CAN’T SMILE ON THIS
SIDE OF MY FACE.
THIS NOSTRIL WILL NOT MOVE.
FULL PARALYSIS ON THE SIDE OF MY
FACE.
>> DOCTOR MARC SIEGEL JOINS US,
PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AT NYU
LANGONE, WELCOME.
>> THAT IS YOU.
>> IF JUSTIN BIEBER FOR YOUR
PATIENT, WHAT WOULD YOU TELL HIM
ABOUT HIS LIKELY PROGNOSIS?
>> FIRST OF ALL, TALK ABOUT WHAT
IT IS.
THIS OCCURS BECAUSE THE
CHICKENPOX VIRUS GOES TO YOUR
NURSE AND DOESN’T GO AWAY
COMPLETELY AND IT CAN REACT AND
WHAT’S FASCINATING IS THAT IN
CANADA THEY DIDN’T GET THE
CHICKENPOX VACCINE ROUTINELY
INTO THE 2000.
HE WAS BORN IN ONTARIO IN 1984,
CHANCES ARE HE HAD CHICKENPOX.
THIS IS A MESSAGE TO PEOPLE THAT
VACCINES WORK BECAUSE THE
CHICKENPOX VACCINE PRETTY MUCH
PREVENTS THIS FROM OCCURRING.
YOU GET A RASH ON YOUR EAR OR
ONE SIDE OF YOUR FACE, PROBABLY
HE HAD ON HIS RIGHT HERE TO GET
PARALYSIS ON YOUR FACE, IF YOU
GET REALLY EARLY AND YOU SEE THE
RASH, YOU CAN GET A DRUG THAT’S
AN ANTIVIRAL AND A STEROID AND
THEN YOU DO REHABILITATION OF
THE FACIAL MUSCLES, YOUR CHANCES
OF A FULL RECOVERY AND EVERYONE
WANTS TO HEAR THIS, 70% OF A
FULL RECOVERY IF IT WAS DONE
RIGHT AND I’M SURE HE GOT
TREMENDOUS CARE SO I AM
OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THIS.
THE VACCINE PRETTY MUCH PREVENTS
>> HOPEFUL NEWS THERE.
IF IT COMES FROM THE CHICKENPOX
VACCINE WHICH MANY OF US HAVE A
CERTAIN AGE HAD, DOES IT MEAN
THOSE OF US WHO HAVE HAD
CHICKENPOX ARE ALL AT RISK?
>> IT DOESN’T COME FROM THE
VACCINE -- THOSE OF US WHO HAVE
HAD CHICKENPOX ARE AT RISK AND
WE ARE AT RISK IF WE HAVE IT
AGAIN BEFORE THE VACCINE CAME
OUT IN 1995 BUT HERE’S THE GOOD
NEWS ON THAT, WERE OVER THE
YEARS OF AGE, WE MAKE A TERRIFIC
VACCINE LIKE THE NOVA VAX
VACCINE, IT PREVENTS THIS FROM
OCCURRING AND WELL OVER 90% OF
THE TIME, A PHENOMENAL VACCINE
IF YOU HAD CHICKENPOX LIKE YOU
AND I HAD WITHOUT WE WERE DONE
WITH IT, WE CAN GET THIS VACCINE
OVER THE AGE OF 50 AND FOR SURE
OVER THE AGE OF 60 TO PREVENT
THIS, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE
TIME.
>> THANK YOU FOR CATCHING MY
MISTAKE, MY BAD.
COMPLICATIONS RELATED TO THIS
SYNDROME, BLISTERING RASH,
DURING LOSS, FACIAL WEAKNESS, I
DAMAGE, PAIN, NEURALGIA
ACCORDING TO THE MAYO CLINIC.
YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT?
>> THIS RASH IS PRETTY
CHARACTERISTIC, IF YOU HAD, YOU CAN SEE IT, IT’S THE RED AND
ANGRY AND PAINFUL IT IS GOT THE
BLISTERS, WE CALL THEM
PHYSICALS.
YOU COULD HAVE THIS WITHOUT THE
RASH, VAST MAJORITY OF THE TIME,
IF YOU DON’T HAVE IT, YOU MIGHT
THINK IT’S BILLS POLICY POLICY
OR LYME DISEASE OR ANOTHER VIRUS
BUT SINCE HE SAYS HE HAS RAMSEY
HUNT WHICH IS ONLY A COUPLE
THOUSAND CASES A YEAR OF A VERY
RARE, SINCE HE SAYS HE HAS IT,
SOMEBODY PROBABLY SAW THE RASH.
I RUSHED TO THE ANTIVIRAL, I
WOULD GIVE STEROIDS, TOO, IT HAS
A PREDOMINANT EFFECT.
OPTIMISTIC AND I CAN SEE SIGNS
OF RECOVERY IN THE VIDEO YOU
SHOWED, I’M NOT HIS PHYSICIAN
AND NEVER EXAMINE MAYBE I COULD
RETIRE THEN BUT HE HAD RETURN OF
FUNCTION TO THE RIGHT I THERE, I
SAW IT SO IT LOOKS LIKE THE
REHAB MAY BE HAVING AN EFFECT.
>> THAT’S GREAT NEWS THERE.
HOW RARE IS THIS AND YOUNG
PEOPLE?
>> IT’S VERY RARE AND YOUNG
PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE VACCINE.
IT’S INTERESTING THE VACCINE
CAME OUT IN 1995 PRETTY MUCH PREVENTS THIS.
WE ARE NOT SEEING IT IN YOUNG
PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE VACCINE
PREVENTING IT BUT IF YOU HAD
CHICKENPOX, IT’S COMMON WHEN
YOU’RE OLDER BECAUSE YOUR IMMUNE
SYSTEM IS BREAKING DOWN AS YOU
GET OLDER AND THE VIRUSES TO
SURFACE AS YOU GET OLDER.
YOU KNOW WHAT BRINGS IT ON?
STRESS.
WHEN YOU ARE UNDER STRESS AND A
SINGER LIKE HIM UNDER TREMENDOUS
STRESS, IT ALLOWS THE VIRUS TO
OVERCOME THE IMMUNE DEFENSES
KEEPING IT DOWN.
OVER 60 IS MUCH MORE COMMON.
>> WE WISH JUSTIN BIEBER OF FULL