Section Head Section Head Eradication of Communicable Diseases (P2M), Public Health Service, Lebak, Dr. Alwan Amirudin, Friday, said today elephantiasis disease patients carrying 17 people and six of them and 11 people were taken clinical samples (blood samples) to be researched at the Laboratory of the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Jakarta.
In fact, a patient with elephantiasis, reportedly died from complications with comorbidities. They are people with elephantiasis, spread across four districts namely Warunggunung, Maja, Lebak Cipanas and Gedong.
"The four districts that are endemic elephantiasis of disease transmission is also thought to spread more widely because until now has not been studied," he said.
Therefore, this year it has provided medical services in the District Warunggunung. This treatment is one of the efforts to prevent transmission of the elephant so as not to spread foot and attacked residents Lebak.
He mentioned, mass treatment was done at night because is transmitted through mosquito bites all kinds. To turn off the virus that filarial worms, Alwan said, patients can take medicine Dethyl Carbamazine (DEC) for repeated for worms die and no body menggeroti
Although the disease does not kill an elephant foot, patients often bear the social burden in society. According to him, the elephant foot is an infectious disease caused by infection of filarial worms that live in the channels and lymph nodes (lymph nodes) that cause acute and chronic symptoms.
Clinically, according to him, the disease is in addition to causing inflammation in the lymph glands and channels, especially in the groin area and underarms, but can also occur in other parts of the body.
According to him, elephantiasis patients experiencing disability on the part of the body such as hands and feet to swell permanently.
"If positive stricken elephant foot, the victim can not be treated again," said Alwan Amirudin. He added that currently Lebak District Health Department continues to conduct counseling about the eradication of mosquito breeding in the area of environmental health is also endemic disease elephantiasis
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