Zygomycosis( fikomycosis)
Description
Zygomycosis is an unpleasant and very dangerous fungal disease. The face, a skin of a head strikes more often. Less often - the internal organs of man. Penetrates infection due to a weakened immune system or the presence of any serious disease. The body can not recognize the presence of the fungus in a timely manner. Infections with patients with diabetes( acidotic) diabetes, significant burns of the skin, leukemia, and lymphoma are suspected. It is often found in chemotherapy, exhaustion and heartburn, stem cell transplantation, intravenous injection of narcotic drugs.
Reasons for
Zygomycetes are common in air, soil, stems of rotting plants, fruits. Penetration of spores into the body occurs when contact with injured tissues of the intestinal tract or skin, as well as during breathing. Get into the body with food and drinks.
Through the skin, the fungus can penetrate when drawing tattoos, insect bites, at the jabs of addicts.
In cancer patients, spores can easily penetrate contaminated instruments.
Symptoms of
There are several forms of zygomycosis and each has its own symptoms:
- Cutaneous: the appearance of fever, painful ulcers with a site of necrosis of black color.
- Gastrointestinal: perforation of the stomach or intestines, admixture of blood in the stool, vomiting with blood, abdominal pain, flatulence.
- Pulmonary: shortness of breath, fever, coughing with sputum, pain in breathing, darkening of a part of the lung and sealing its tissue.
- Nasocerebral: headache, blood discharge from the nasal sinuses, fever. With the passage of time - defeat of the orbit.
- Disseminated: affects two or more organs. Usually it's light.
Diagnosis
With zygomycosis, the diagnosis should be made as soon as possible, since this disease has a high lethal percentage.
Diagnostic methods:
- computer or radiography of the lung;
- obtaining material for research from lesions;
- MRI;
- X-ray of the paranasal sinuses;
- histological examination of a biopsy;
- microscopy and sowing of material from the affected foci.
Treatment of
Treatment of zygomycosis should be intense and rapid, as tissue damage is usually irreversible. Most cases require medical and surgical treatment.
Indications for therapy:
- of an unknown etiology fever lasting from 5-6 days and not amenable to treatment with antibacterial agents of a wide spectrum of action;
- common localization( from two foci).
Antifungal medications are prescribed to slow the development of the fungus, the intravenous drug Amphotericin B is popular. The therapy lasts a long period of time depending on the severity of the disease. Patients with diabetes mellitus are under the constant continuous attention of specialists.
The greatest effect shows complex treatment, including surgical treatment, antifungal therapy and treatment of concomitant chronic diseases.
Folk remedies
It is impossible to cure zygomitosis with folk remedies. Means can only add a nutrient medium for fungi and increase their multiplication several times.
Complications of
Complications of zygomycosis are serious. Typically, during surgery, extensive areas of organs are affected and can even be completely destroyed. Some of the healthy tissue is also removed.
When one eye is damaged, both are often removed. In addition to blindness, meningitis, pulmonary hemorrhage, osteomyelitis, sepsis, hemorrhage in the intestinal tract may occur. Do not be ruled out and death.
Prevention
The nature of the treatment of zygomycosis is directly related to the level of damage and the stage of the disease. With a timely appeal to a specialist, you can limit the course of antifungal therapy.
We must also not forget that personal and household hygiene, the right way of life will prevent the emergence of zygomitosis. There should be no contact with sick animals.
Ask for help with signs of a fungal infection to an infectious disease specialist.
