What is elephantiasis?& how it happen any medicine is their for this. What precation we have to take while elephant times.
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Hi, elephantiasis is a symptom of a variety of diseases, where parts of a person's body swell to massive proportions. Elephantiasis is a condition characterized by gross enlargement of an area of the body, especially the limbs. Other areas commonly affected include the external genitals. Elephantiasis is caused by obstruction of the lymphatic system, which results in the accumulation of a fluid called lymph in the affected areas. The parasite worms wuchereria bancrofti and brugia malayi cause filariasis, which may lead to elephantiasis. Symptoms are similar to human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, including fever, headache, chills, malaise, sweating, muscles aches, nausea, and vomiting. The infection may range from a mild illness to a severe, life threatening disease. It may cause reduction of white blood cells and platelets, anemia, or abnormal liver function. Prevention: controlling the spread and breeding of larvae bearing mosquitoes is the most effective way of preventing elephantiasis. Anyone visiting or living in a danger area, usually in the tropics, should take all the normal precautions, sleeping under mosquito nets and using insect repellent. In general, an american is unlikely to be infested if he or she keeps to hotels and other places that maintain a good standard of cleanliness. Medication: many homoeopathic remedies are available to cure elephantiasis symptoms that can be selected on the basis of cause, sensations, symptoms and modalities of the case like apis mel, clematis e, silicea, natrum mur, thuja occidentalis, lycopodium, sulphur, cannabis sativa, aurum met, hydrastis and many other medicines.
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