This is the surprise of this Koh-Lanta, the sacred fire. After finishing second in the orienteering event, Tania qualified Tuesday night for the final of TF1's flagship show. With 36 votes against her since the beginning of the adventure, a record in the history of the show, no one would have imagined the youngest of the show to reach the final.
Eliminated from the show and then returned following the forfeit of a candidate, the 22-year-old dietician fought against all odds throughout the adventure against the other candidates but also against a rare disease.
Tania has Raynaud's syndrome. A phenomenon that is characterized by a temporary cessation of blood circulation in the extremities and more particularly in the fingers. The website of the Health Insurance specifies that the latter then become "white and insensitive". "My hands and feet are constantly cold. Even in summer, even when it's 50 degrees, my hands and feet are frozen, "said the adventurer in early March in an Instagram live.
To mitigate this unpleasant phenomenon, it is recommended to protect yourself from triggers such as exposure to cold, tobacco or stress. The website of the Health Insurance adds that the treatment of Raynaud's phenomenon "always includes non-drug measures."
"Impression of dead fingers"
In 90% of cases, Raynaud's disease is idiopathic, that is, of unknown cause. In 10% of cases, it is related to another disease or an identified cause. It most often appears in adolescence or in a young, healthy woman, and 6% of women between the ages of 25 and 40 have it.
After exposure to cold or emotion, it reaches the fingers of both hands and eventually the toes, nose and ears.
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disease Thermal image showing a hand on the left of a healthy person and on the right of a person with Reynaud's disease.
The blood supply is longer because the blood vessels bring less blood to the hands and feet pic.twitter.com/f8eC20OrP1
— Medics.IMG (@MedicsImg) September 2, 2019
During a crisis, three phases can follow one another. A first where the fingers are white, cold and lose their sensitivity, hence an impression of "dead fingers". A second when the fingers turn blue and the person feels tingling often painful and a third where the fingers recolor, warm up and become swollen, red, sensitive or even painful, before quickly returning to their normal appearance.
If this disease is not serious, it has a considerable impact on quality of life. Under certain conditions, Raynaud's phenomenon can be recognized as an occupational disease.
