Leprosy is a disease, the name of which is enough to instil fear into the hearts of the patients. Even a few years back, it was as regarded with apprehension, as was cancer. This is because, leprosy is a highly lethal disease and a very nasty one too. Even though it is not highly contagious, contrary to popular disease, it still ranks high enough on the deadly-scale of diseases.
Leprosy is also named Hansen’s disease after the person who discovered it. The disease acts by means of infections and they may range from 5 years to 20 years in duration to activate. The main symptoms of leprosy are the granulomas of nerve cells and tissues, of our eyes, skin and even the respiratory tract. Eventually the patients can no longer feel any pain, and even when their extremities of their bodies fall off due to repeated injuries and infections, they cannot feel a thing. Physical weakness and poor eyesight are additional symptoms. However, leprosy is curable too, with the correct medications. For the case of paucibacillary disease, daily dapsone and monthly rifampicin is to be given for 6 months. However, for multibacillary forms of the disease, daily dapsone and clofazimine accompanied by monthly rifampicin is to be provided for tweleve consecutive months.
Nowadays, MDT or Multi – Drug Therapy is highly effective for curing leprosy and thus patients are no longer conatgious after the first one-month dose. Very safe and also easy to use and apply in field conditions, because of its present representation in calendar blister packs it is highly effective. The relapse rates of leprosy also have remained quite low, and no side effects or internal resistance to this combined drug therapy has been observed, thus making it a very suitable treatment for leprosy and also making sure that in the years to come, the people of the earth will be able to lead leprosy-free times. By- Rounak Bose
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