Suspected symptoms of leprosy?

summary

Leprosy treatment has specific drugs, such as dapsone and rifampicin, should be comprehensive treatment, generally cured in three to five years. If early detection, early treatment, half of the lesions disappeared, leaving no traces. Under the condition of light, there is no patient with infectious diseases, and the general family medication does not need to be hospitalized. Severe infectious patients need to be hospitalized.

Suspected symptoms of leprosy?

A variety of leprosy symptoms, mainly in the skin and peripheral nerves. If the following symptoms of leprosy, should consider the possibility: skin numbness, not itchy, not sweating erythema or light spots; Facial ants walk feeling, edge is not clear, drunk such as erythema or facial redness, long pimple, earlobe hypertrophy, sensory disorders.

The muscles of forearm and leg atrophy; Hands or feet are easy to blister, palms and plantar ulcers do not heal for a long time. Big ear, superficial common peroneal nerve enlargement. To reach the clinical cure standard, the treatment of tumor type should continue to consolidate for no less than 5 years, and that of tuberculous type should continue to consolidate for no less than 3 years.

From the perspective of personal protection, the key to the prevention and control of leprosy is to avoid contact with infectious leprosy patients. Families of patients and close contacts, especially children with negative leprosy test, can be vaccinated with BCG.

matters needing attention

Leprosy reaction is a kind of mixed reaction, which involves both cellular immune reaction and humoral reaction. It mainly occurs in borderline leprosy. The clinical manifestations of these two types of symptoms. From the perspective of personal protection, the key to the prevention and control of leprosy is to avoid contact with infectious leprosy patients.