Kevin Jonas’ Wife Danielle Reveals ‘Traumatic’ Battle With Lyme Disease & Hair Loss: ‘I Just Wanted to Feel Like Myself’

Danielle Jonas, who is joined to Kevin Jonas, has been dealing with immoderate hard health challenges down the scenes.

The TV property revealed successful an interrogation with Parents published connected Thursday (Oct. 9) that she has been diagnosed with Lyme disease, a decision she says lone came aft her doctors primitively downplayed what she was going through. “They tried to archer maine it was anxiety,” Danielle told the publication.

“Finally, I had a biopsy that showed I really had Lyme disease,” she continued. “I besides had eczema connected my scalp, which was apt from the inflammation [caused by Lyme disease]. The hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment was precise traumatic.”

According to Mayo Clinic, Lyme illness is caused by borrelia bacteria, which humans typically declaration aft a bearer tick bites them. Longterm symptoms see assemblage pains, tegument conditions and immune-system issues.

In Danielle’s case, the hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment caused by her unwellness was truthful severe, she got extensions — but they lone irritated the eczema connected her scalp more. Eczema, oregon atopic dermatitis, is simply a tegument information that causes dryness, itchiness and inflammation, according to Mayo.

“I had to spell retired and bash things with Kevin,” Danielle recalled. “I conscionable wanted to consciousness similar myself.”

The Married to Jonas star and Kevin got joined successful 2009. They stock 2 daughters — 11-year-old Alena, 11 and 8-year-old Valentina.

“They saw everything I went through,” Danielle said of her children, who she says besides person eczema. “The main happening I archer them [when their eczema flares up] is, ‘This is going to pass.'”

Lyme illness is rather communal successful the United States. The CDC estimates that 476,000 radical are diagnosed with it each year. Danielle is conscionable 1 of many nationalist figures who person opened up astir their struggles with the illness, including Avril Lavigne, Justin Bieber and Shania Twain.

Earlier this year, Justin Timberlake shared that he’d besides been diagnosed with Lyme. “If you’ve experienced this illness oregon cognize idiosyncratic who has — past you’re aware: surviving with this tin beryllium relentlessly debilitating, some mentally and physically,” helium wrote connected Instagram astatine the time. “When I archetypal got the diagnosis I was shocked for sure. But, astatine slightest I could recognize wherefore I would beryllium onstage and successful a monolithic magnitude of nervus symptom or, conscionable feeling brainsick fatigue oregon sickness.”

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