Elephantitis
by
tommysharpe
Last updated 6 years ago
Discipline:
Health & Fitness Subject:
Health
Grade:
12


Elephantiasis is a condition where the skin thickens and hardens after excessive swelling associated with lymph accumulation (lymphedema). It is most marked in the lower limbs but also commonly affects the scrotum in males, and may also affect the breasts and arms.
General treatment includes bed rest, elevation of affected limbs and wrapping the limbs in compression bandages.The skin should be washed carefully and dried. Nails are clipped and cleaned to avoid injury and inadvertent infection. Antibiotics include Diethylcarbamazine or DEC, which kills the microfilariae and also some adult worms. For areas outside of the United States, a combination of Albendazole and Ivermectin is generally used.
Disea e
Treatment
What is it?
The disease is caused by the filarial worm, which is transmitted form human to human via the female mosquito when it takes a blood meal. The parasite grows into an adult worm that lives in the lymphatic system of humans
Causes
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Symptoms
Prevalence in the U.S.
Some symptoms include fever, pain in testicles, pain above testicles, enlarged groin lymphnodes, massive swelling in the legs, arms, genitalia and breasts, white urinary discharge, swollen liver, and swollen spleen.
In the United states this diseased is mostly caused by fliarial worms and tropical mosquitos. This disease prevales in the U.S. mainly because of the fliarial worms that you can only prevent by staying as clean as possible.
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