- Mucormycosis | Awareness and its Prevention.
Today we all know that the whole world is living its life with an unimaginable pandemic called Covid-19. During this time, along with Covid-19, another disease called Mucormycosis has come in India.
Today we are talking about this disease called Mucormycosis. What is it? How does it spread? How does it affect the human body? What is the remedy to eradicate this disease? How this disease can be avoided. Through this article, this is an attempt to make people aware of all this information.
What is Mucormycosis and how does it affect the human body?
Mucormycosis is a type of fungal infection; it is also called black fungus. In Mucormycosis disease, there is an infection in the eye or jaw; the black fungus can attack the patient's brain, lungs or even the skin. In this disease, many patients lose their eyesight, while some patients lose their jaw and nose bone. If it is not controlled in time, it can even lead to the death of the patient. The initial symptoms of Mucormycosis are redness and pain near the eyes and nose. There may also be fever and vomiting of blood.
Cause of Mucormycosis (Black Fungus):
In the treatment of corona patient, mostly due to the drug containing steroids, there is a change in the immunity of the body. And most of the patients who have sugar disease, due to high sugar level, their immunity is more reduced due to covid-19 infection, due to such important reasons diseases like Mucormycosis are found in large quantities in India.
Black fungus treatment is done in three steps. Regarding the treatment of Mucormycosis (Black Fungus), the doctor believes that its treatment is possible in this way. Find out the cause of Mucormycosis (Black Fungus) and stop steroid use, check sugar level immediately, check for acidosis.
Patients infected with Mucormycosis (Black Fungus) have surgery to aggressively remove dead tissue, which may require several specialists. And it is also necessary to ensure that the fungus does not spread further.
The best medicines should be used to control the disease of a patient infected with Mucormycosis(black fungus). In which complete stock of injected and tabulated medicines should be available in the country. Due to its production is less, which is a major reason for its shortage at present.
Measures to avoid Mucormycosis (Black Fungus):
To avoid Mucormycosis (Black Fungus), patients with diabetes and every man and woman should control sugar. Keep checking the blood sugar level even after being treated for Covid and discharged from the hospital. Carefully use antibiotics and antifungal medicines in regular remedy, if possible, ignore drugs like steroids.
Do not take the closed nose of a Covid infected person lightly as just a cold, if you see any fungal infection, get the test done immediately, whenever you go out according to the information of the government, maintain social distance, especially in dusty places, wear masks.
