Black Fungus also known as Mucormicosis has started spreading all over Uttar Pradesh. The state concerned as dozens of patients in the state are showing symptoms of the disease every day.
The Yogi government has issued an advisory on black fungus. The advisory reads stating that after COVID-19 infection, the black fungus or mucormycosis spreads to the face, nose, sinus, eye and brain and destroys it.
Some cases that are reporting the black fungus infection:
- Those on steroid medication given during Covid - Dexamethasone, Methylprednisolone etc.
- COVID-19 patients dependent on medical oxygen or kept in ICU.
- People with diabetes issues or the ones who are taking medication for cancer, kidney transplant etc.
SYMPTOMS
- Fever, headache, cough, breathlessness.
- Nasal congestion, bleeding in the nose with mucus.
- Pain in the eye or swollen eye, two is visible or stops appearing.
- There is pain, swelling or numbness on one side of the face
- Toothache, teeth begin to move. Chewing is a pain.
- Mucus bleeds in vomit or coughing.
Precautions to be taken:
1. Do not start steroid medicine at the behest of yourself neither on the suggest of a non-specialist doctor, friend, friend or relative. Steroid medicines like - Dexona, Medrol etc.
2. Do not start steroids as soon as the disease starts, this increases the disease.
3. Stay in regular contact with a specialist doctor when steroids are introduced.
Still if you have any kind of symptoms, then immediately go to a government hospital or any other specialist doctor. Get a nose, ear, throat, eye, medicine, chest or plastic surgery specialist immediately and start treatment.
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