Black Fungus Mucormycosis; General and Homoeopathic management
Black Fungus Mucormycosis; General and Homoeopathic management
Mucormycosis
Mucormycosis (previously called zygomycosis) is a serious
but rare fungal infection caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes. These
molds live throughout the environment. Mucormycosis mainly affects people who
have health problems or take medicines that lower the body’s ability to fight
germs and sickness. (CDC)
Causes of Black Fungus or Mucormycosis
How does someone
get mucormycosis?
People
get mucormycosis through contact with fungal spores in the environment. For
example, the lung or sinus forms of the infection can occur after someone
inhales the spores from the air. A skin infection can occur after the fungus
enters the skin through a scrape, burn, or other type of skin injury. (CDC)
Is mucormycosis
contagious?
No.
Mucormycosis can’t spread between people or between people and animals. (CDC)
Types of mucormycosis
- Rhinocerebral (sinus and brain) mucormycosis infection
in the sinuses that can spread to the brain. Most common in uncontrolled
diabetes and in kidney transplant.
- Pulmonary (lung) mucormycosis most
common type people with cancer and an organ transplant or a stem cell
transplant.
- Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is
more common among young children than adults, especially premature and low
birth weight infants less than 1 month of age, who have had antibiotics,
surgery, or medications that lower the body’s ability to fight germs and
sickness. 9-10
- Cutaneous (skin) mucormycosis:
occurs after the fungi enter the body through a break in the skin (for
example, after surgery, a burn, or other type of skin trauma).
- Disseminated mucormycosis occurs when the infection spreads through the bloodstream to affect another part of the body. most commonly affects the brain, but also can affect other organs such as the spleen, heart, and skin. (CDC)
Symptomatology of Mucormycosis
Symptoms depend on where in the body the fungus is growing
Symptoms of rhinocerebral (sinus and brain)
mucormycosis include:
- One-sided facial
swelling
- Headache
- Nasal or sinus
congestion
- Black lesions on
nasal bridge or upper inside of mouth that quickly become more severe
- Fever
Symptoms of pulmonary (lung)
mucormycosis include:
- Fever
- Cough
- Chest pain
- Shortness of
breath
Cutaneous (skin) mucormycosis
·
Look like blisters or
ulcers, and the infected area may turn black.
·
Other symptoms include
pain, warmth, excessive redness, or swelling around a wound.
Symptoms of gastrointestinal mucormycosis include:
- Abdominal pain
- Nausea and
vomiting
- Gastrointestinal
bleeding
Disseminated mucormycosis typically occurs in people who are already sick from
other medical conditions, so it can be difficult to know which symptoms are
related to mucormycosis. Patients with disseminated infection in the brain can
develop mental status changes or coma.
(CDC)
Diagnosis
How is mucormycosis
diagnosed?
·
Medical history,
symptoms, physical examinations, and laboratory tests
·
Tissue biopsy,
·
Fungal culture.
·
Imaging tests; such as
a CT scan of lungs, sinuses, or other parts of body, depending on the location
of the suspected infection.
(CDC)
COVID-19-associated Mucormycosis
Commonly referred to as black fungus, is the association of mucormycosis (an aggressive fungal infection) with COVID-19.It has been reported around the nose, eyes and brain
· In these
reports, the most common risk
factor for
mucormycosis was diabetes.
· Most
cases presented during hospitalization (often 10–14 days after admission),
· COVID-associated
mucormycosis has especially affected people in India. The
association also appeared in Russia
(Wikipedia)
Risk factors
Who gets mucormycosis?
Mucormycosis
is rare, but it’s more common among people who have health problems or take
medicines that lower the body’s ability to fight germs and sickness.
Certain groups of people are more likely to get
mucormycosis, 1including people with:
- Diabetes,
especially with diabetic ketoacidosis
- Cancer
- Organ
transplant
- Stem
cell transplant
- Neutropenia (low
number of white blood cells)
- Long-term
corticosteroid use
- Injection
drug use
- Too
much iron in the body (iron overload or hemochromatosis)
- Skin
injury due to surgery, burns, or wounds
- Prematurity
and low birthweight (for neonatal gastrointestinal mucormycosis)
(CDC)
Complications
of Mucormycosis
- The complications of Mucormycosis
or Black Fungus are serious
- In addition, because surgical
debridement is almost uniformly needed, some normal tissue may be
destroyed because the surgeon must remove all tissue that is dead or
dying.
- An example is infection of the eye
orbit; often the whole eye must be removed.
- Consequently, serious complications
may occur, such as
- Blindness,
- meningitis,
- Brain abscesses,
- Osteomyelitis,
- Pulmonary hemorrhages,
- Gastrointestinal hemorrhages,
- Cavitary lesions in organs and
eventually secondary bacterial infections, sepsis, and death.
Treatment for Mucormycosis or Black
Fungus
Conventional or Allopathic Treatment
·
Antifungal medicine,
usually amphotericin B, posaconazole, or isavuconazole.
·
These medicines are
given through a vein (amphotericin B, posaconazole, isavuconazole) or by mouth
(posaconazole, isavuconazole).
·
Other medicines,
including fluconazole, voriconazole, and echinocandins, do not work against
fungi that cause mucormycosis.
·
Often, mucormycosis
requires surgery in conventional treatment to cut away the infected tissue.
(CDC)
Homoeopathic Management
for Black fungus or Mucormycosis
Indian ministry of AYUSH has formulated a guideline for prevention and treatment of Black Fungus or Mucormycosis Homoeopathically.
Homoeopathic Prevention
Five. Phos 6x tablets (twice daily,
three tablets each time for 30 days).
Homoeopathic
Treatment
Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis,
drug prescribed is Arsenic-Alb, Kali Bich, Merc.Iod. Rubrum, Merc. Iod. Flavum, Merc. Sol, Cinnabaris, Thuja, Carbo Animalis; 200 potency, daily two times 6 pills each time for 5 days.
Pulmonary Mucormycosis,
drug is Arsenic-Alb, Phosphorous, Bryonia, Carbo Animalis, Ant.Tart; 200 potency, daily two times 6 pills each time for 5 days.
Cutaneous Mucormycosis, it
is Arsenic-Alb, Sulphur, Merc. sol, Anthracinum; 200 potency, daily two times 6 pills each time for 5 days
Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis,
it is Arsenic-Alb, Phosphorous, Nitric Acid; 200 potency, daily two times 6 pills each time for 5 days.
thehomoeopathy.in
Note-
You have to take only one or two medicine according to registered Homoeopathic
physician with detailed present medical case history and we prefer liquid form
of medicine instead of pill forms. The above guideline is not the only protocol
we follow. Here in our Kazy Homoeopathic Health Care we have our own guideline
and protocol based on Basic Homoeopathic protocol, individualization and also
the AYUSH and other authentic Homoeopathic guidelines and protocols.
Prognosis
of Mucormycosis or Black Fungus
Conventional or Allopathic
treatment
- The prognosis of mucormycosis is
usually fair to poor; the prognosis depends on the overall health of the
patient, the speed of diagnosis and treatment, the patient's ability to
respond to treatments, the complete debridement of the infected body area,
and the body area that is initially infected.
- For example, the mortality (death
rate) of patients with rhinocerebral and GI mucormycosis is about 85%
while the mortality rate for all patients with other types of mucormycosis
is about 50%.
- Patients who survive this dangerous
infection often have disabilities related to the extent of tissue lost due
to the fungal destruction and the necessary surgical debridement (blindness,
limb loss, organ dysfunctions).
Medicine.net
Homoeopathic prognosis
Homoeopathic
treatment frequently is healing black fungus like symptoms through proper individualization
by Homoeopathic physician all over the world. At present it has become epidemic
to various parts of India during the COVID 19 pandemic. Homoeopathic medicine
very much effective in fungal infection.
Though
there is not enough homoeopathic researches on Mucormycosis but has a long successful
treatment history and clinical evidence in Homoeopathic literature and
homoeopathic treatment culture of Black fungus like symptoms and other fungal
infections.
Homoepathy
is and can be a very effective treatment system in Balack Fangus or
Mucormycosis . It can successfully cure the diseases through proper
individualized treatment. However in some cases surgical debridement of infected area with Homoeopathic treatment. Homoeopathic
treatment or combined treatment is expected to be better prognosis in Mucormycosis.
Refrences
CDC, medicine.net, Wikipedia, DNA India, thehomeopathy.in, Medical News Today etcNote-
You have to take only one or two medicine according to registered Homoeopathic
physician with detailed present medical case history and we prefer liquid form
of medicine instead of pill forms. The above guideline is not the only protocol
we follow. Surgical and other treatment procedures may need beside Homoeopathic
treatment. Here in our Kazy Homoeopathic Health Care we
have our own guideline and protocol based on Basic Homoeopathic protocol, individualization
and also the AYUSH and other authentic Homoeopathic guidelines and protocols.
Dr. Kazy Habib BHMS, MPH
General Homoeopathic Physician
Contact: 8801738618894 (call, Whats app, Imo)
Kazy Homoeopathic Treatment & Private Research
Center
Kazy Homoeopathic Health Care
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