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Dr Guedes:

--- Quote from: Yaxya on July 06, 2008, 05:10:45 AM ---welcome to ur forum  Dr Paulo Guedes we can share and discuss informations and topics about tropical diseases.
one topic every week,every member can participate in this discussion.
let us start with leprosy..?!


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This is a good idea. We can share our experience in diagnosis and treatment. I live in a region of my country that have a high index of new cases. I work in a public office specialized in queratinization diseases like psoriasis, acne, ichtyosis, Darier's , but we see patients with leprosy too. It is a great problem in public health here.

Diagnostic:
Welcome dr.guedes to SomaliDoc with open hands

Yaxya:
Leprosy:

Medical Examination of Leprosy Leprosy is often called "a living death" because of the many horrifying effects on the human body. Without the cure, it can leave people deformed and hopeless for the rest of their lives.

Leprosy effects several bodyparts as:
eyes,face,hands and feet
 
 
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an acid-fast, rod-shaped bacillus. The disease mainly affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, mucosa of the upper respiratory tract and also the eyes, apart from some other structures. Leprosy has afflicted humanity since time immemorial. It once affected every continent and it has left behind a terrifying image in history and human memory - of mutilation, rejection and exclusion from society. A cumulative total of the number of individuals who, over the millennia, have suffered its chronic course of incurable disfigurement and physical disabilities can never be calculated. Since ancient times, leprosy has been regarded by the community as a contagious, mutilating and incurable disease. There are many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with a significant number of leprosy cases. When M.leprae was discovered by G.A. Hansen in 1873, it was the first bacterium to be identified as causing disease in man. However, treatment for leprosy only appeared in the late 1940s with the introduction of dapsone, and its derivatives. Leprosy bacilli resistant to dapsone gradually appeared and became widespread. In 1997, there were an estimated 1.2 million cases in the world, most of them concentrated in South-East Asia, Africa and the Americas. The number of new cases detected worldwide each year is about half a million.

Last year there was a leprosy survey in Somalia and quite a lot of new cases got detected. Leprosy has still a social stigma in Somalia. The people think that leppers are dangerous and that they will eat little children, because to get cured, they believe you have to eat the liver of a human being. Before the civil war all the leprosy patients got collected and the police brought them to Labadaad, a leprosy island in the South of Somalia.
 

Dr.Tulip:
Welcome  :DDr. guedes
To Somali Medical Forums
I hope you enjoy and benefitand to take
advantage of this great forum
You can receive any information needed
Gratis ;)

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