Stung by a hornet, an intractable disease is found … Chunichi draft 6th place Mikiya Tanaka’s fate facing and expectations for ‘Ninja’ to change the bottom team of the main force release-Draft meeting | Professional baseball-Number Web

There are 338 designated intractable diseases by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. The 97th disease is ulcerative colitis. According to the website of the Intractable Diseases Information Center, “ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory disease of the large intestine in which erosions and ulcers occur in the mucous membrane (innermost layer) of the large intestine,” and the symptoms are “diarrhea with or without bloody stools, which often occurs. Abdominal pain.” The number of patients is estimated to be about 100 per 100,000 population.

Wasp sting reveals intractable disease

A baseball player who battled the disease joins the Dragons. This is Mikiya Tanaka (Asia University), who was drafted 6th. He was diagnosed in the summer of his junior year.

“I was at a training camp in Obihiro, Hokkaido. I was stung on my left arm by a hornet and went to the hospital. When I took a blood test, the numbers unrelated to bees were bad.”

The doctor asked Tanaka. “Do you have blood in your stool?” It was a figure star. Since the spring of that year he had been suffering from bloody stools and diarrhea. When he told the doctor, he was told to return to Tokyo immediately for a thorough examination.

The pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis is still unclear. Tanaka tried drug treatment, but the recovery was unsatisfactory, and in October he underwent a total colonectomy. He was hospitalized for three months and lost 11 kg of weight, but in the spring of his fourth year, he returned to action.

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