Symptoms And Prevention Filariasis

This is a chronic disease is spread by mosquitoes that suck the blood of someone who had been infected previously. Infected blood and contain larvae and would be transmitted to another person when an infected mosquito bite or blood menghipas person and the disease is quite commonly found in Indonesia. Read also about the "Know Filariasis".

This disease basically is not like malaria and dengue fever, filariasis can be transmitted by 23 species of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, Culex, Mansonia, Aedes & Armigeres. Because of this, filariasis can spread very quickly. If the filarial worm, the larvae are carried by mosquitoes microfilariae will clog vessels and lymph nodes that can not flow to all parts of the body smoothly. As a result, there was swelling of the body organs, such as the arms, legs or genitals.

Symptoms of Acute filariasis can be:

1. Repeated fever for 3-5 days, fever may be lost when a break and came back after working hard
2. Swollen lymph nodes (with no injuries) groin area, armpits (lymphadenitis), which looks red, hot and sick
3. Tract inflammation of lymph nodes that feel heat and pain radiating from the base of the foot or base of the arm towards the end (retrograde lymphangitis)
4. Filarial abscess due to frequent suffering from swollen lymph nodes, may rupture and ooze pus and blood
5. Enlargement of the legs, arms, breasts, testicles that look a bit flushed and feels hot (early lymphodema)
6. Clinical symptoms of chronic persistent enlargement (elephantiasis) in the legs, arms, breasts, scrotum (elephantiasis skroti).

Diagnosis of filariasis disease.

If someone suspects Filariasis signs and clinical symptoms, the diagnosis made by blood tests performed finger began at eight o'clock local time. Someone expressed as filariasis patients, if found microfilariae in the blood. Someone who had been infected with microfilariae larvae 10-14 days immersion are those most at risk as a machine-borne diseases elephantiasis. They still look normal and asymptomatic. So the only way to prevent transmission is to break the chain of spread of drug use. It will be easier than killing a mosquito carrying the larvae were of vast quantities.

At this early stage, usually the patient will experience a recurrent fever, painful lumps in the groin or armpit, and the palpable presence of rope-like veins that are red and sore from the groin or armpit. While at an advanced stage (chronic) will occur intermittent enlargement on the feet, hands, pockets testicles, breasts and female genitalia.

Prevention of disease filariasis.

Preventing is better than cure, here are some tips to prevent the disease filariasis:

1. Trying to avoid mosquito bites transmitting
2. Clean water plants in the marsh which is where the brood of mosquitoes, stockpiling, drying or draining standing water as a brood of mosquitoes
3. Cleaning the bushes around the house
4. Sleep using mosquito nets
5. Vent (ventilation) closed home fine wire gauze
6. Wearing mosquito repellent ointment
7. Spraying to kill adult mosquitoes
8. Checking himself into the clinic or doctor if a neighbor or family affected by filariasis.