“I will have to remove her eyes in order to save her life” told by a eye specialist.
He inserted the tube inside her nose in order to remove the tissue affected by mucormycosis, deadly fungus which affect eyes, brain, nose, jaw, face etc.
Doctor operated for 3 hours to remove her eyes to save her life.
Even people are suffering from second wave of corona now their is another ravage of deadly fungus known as black fungus.
It is a very rare infection which is caused due to exposure to mucor mould which is found in soil, green vegetable, plants, decaying fruits and vegetables and even in the nose of healthy person.
It affects the sinuses, brain, lungs and life threatening to diabetes patients. It is also affecting the HIV/AIDS patients.
Mucormycosis has a mortality rate of 50 % can be caused due to overdose of steroids while treating the corona patients to protect them from Covid 19 virus.
When you inject the steroid in the body of Covid patients, these steroids reduces the inflammation in lungs but increases the blood sugar in the diabetes and non diabetes patients this reduce in immunity could be the reason behind attack of black fungus.
Diabetes in itself lowers the immunity of patients, corona virus affects your immunity more severely and during such situation if you inject these life saving steroids against corona virus act as a fuel to the fire said by the doctor.
The mechanical engineer from Thane, subarb of Mumbai caught a fungul infection called mucormycosis while battling with deadly corona virus.
In a span of month the fast growing fungus had eaten into a large portion of facial tissue, left eyes and the palate. He has gone through three major surgeries lost vision from left eye permanently and due to removal of palate he is unable to eat.. Its all so devastating.
According to some doctors in 25 years of practice they would get only 1 patient in a week before this Covid 19 pandemic but now 25 cases in a week.. So you can see the difference.
So far 2000 cases have been recorded till now and health minister has decided to start a separate ward for the treatment of mucormycosis patients.
There is a antifungal drug named Amphoterician - B. Which is crucial in treatment of mucormycosis.
The treatment of mucormycosis is costly. The overall treatment cost including surgeries go up to 40 lakh to 50 lakh.
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