Sylvana Simons wears gloves at the table at Pauw & De Wit. Tina Nijkamp has a suspicion as to why, but emphasizes that it is an assumption. “I think it’s rheumatism.”
Viewers noticed this during her Tuesday performance Pauw & De Wit: Sylvana Simons is sitting at the table wearing gloves. Not a fashion choice, TV authority Tina Nijkamp suspects, but a health issue. “I think — I don’t know, I haven’t asked — that it has to do with the fact that she suffers from rheumatism, also osteoarthritis.”
Rheumatism or osteoarthritis
Is it true that you wear gloves if you have rheumatism or osteoarthritis? That is indeed a well-known method. Special compression gloves are used by rheumatism patients to keep the joints warm, reduce swelling and relieve pain, especially in the fingers and hands, where rheumatism and osteoarthritis often hit hardest.
How Tina knows that Sylvana has rheumatism or osteoarthritis? “That was then released in a press release. This is an assumption, a suggestion, I don’t know anything else.”
Health situation
According to Tina, it’s really not a fashion thing. “I do think it has something to do with her health situation, although this is of course just a suggestion. I don’t know why.”
Sylvana indeed admitted to having rheumatism three years ago. “The pain is sometimes unbearable. I have once left a debate that lasted until two o’clock in the morning because it gets freezing in the plenary hall at night. That is to keep us awake, but it strains my joints,” she said in the LINDA.