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Whipple’s Disease
Written by Jay on March 9, 2010 – -Whipple’s Disease – It looks like people are searching for Whipple’s Disease because if you happen to watch the show House last night then you’d be interested to see if it’s a real disease or if they just made it up for the show. Well, it is in fact a real disease. I looked it up!
Based on the show, Whipple’s Disease was kind of explained as the body not getting the vitamins it needs and it, um, “poops” out. House was explaining it like if your poop is hard then you’re good, if it’s not then you’re not really good. So, I decided to look it up…
According to Wikipedia, Whipple’s disease is a “rare, systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei.”
It seems as though most of the people affected by this is men and this disease can be treated. Though, if not treated it can be deadly. And yes, the show was right about that one too!
I don’t know about you guys but you can actually learn a thing or two from television! Who says not to believe everything you watch on TV, huh?
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