Elephant Feet

Elephant Feet disease or filariasis is a disease caused by Filaria worms that are transmitted through various types of mosquitoes.

This disease is chronic (chronic) and if not receiving treatment, can cause permanent disability in the form of enlarged legs, arms and genitals both women and men. The disease is quite common in Indonesia.

Modes of Transmission
The disease is transmitted by mosquitoes which suck the blood of someone who had been infected previously. Infected blood and contain larvae and would be transmitted to someone else at the time an infected mosquito bite or blood menghipas person.

Not like malaria and dengue fever, filariasis transmitted by mosquitoes from 23 species of the genus Anopheles, Culex, Mansonia, Aedes & Armigeres. Because of this, filariasis can be transmitted very quickly.

Clinical symptoms

Filariais Acute symptoms may include:

Repeated fever for 3-5 days, fever may be lost if the break and came back after working hard
Swollen lymph nodes (with no injuries) groin area, armpits (lymphadenitis), which appear red, hot and sick
Inflammation of lymph node channels the hot and radiating pain from the base of the foot or the base of the arm towards the end (retrograde lymphangitis)
Filarial abscesses often suffer from swollen lymph nodes, may rupture and ooze pus and blood
Enlargement legs, arms, breasts, testicles are looking a little flushed and feels hot (early lymphodema)
The clinical symptoms of chronic persistent enlargement (elephantiasis) in the legs, arms, breasts, testicles (skroti elephantiasis).

Diagnosis
If someone suspects filariasis in the signs and clinical symptoms, diagnosis is done by finger blood tests done beginning at 20:00 local time tonight. Someone expressed as filariasis patients, if the blood found mikrofilaria.

Prevention

Prevention can be done by:
Trying to avoid infection from mosquito bites
Cleaning the water plants in the swamp that is where the brood of mosquitoes, stockpiling, drying or stream water as a brood of mosquitoes
Cleaning the bushes around the house

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