Salt enrichment with drugs to help prevent tropical diseases

Although little is known, lymphatic worms are raging on millions of people by causing pus and other genitalia to have pus and swelling, the most common symptom of elephantiasis.

Recently a study has suggested that salt enrichment with drugs can help prevent and cure this disease without causing any adverse effects. However, it will still be a challenge to influence the government to enrich salt and diethylcarbamazine (a drug to kill fluke) or DEC.

Eric Ottesen, MD, director of the White Blood Worm Support Center in Decatur, Ga. It said that it would be a benefit of bio-medicine and medicine, while for anatomy and society, this is a challenge to be put in place, even though the doctor has nothing to do with research. but quite familiar with these new findings. Researcher Srividya Adinarayanan of the Disease Control Center in Pondicherry, India and her colleagues conducted a review of 21 studies with consideration of a new system to judge performance. Results of salt enrichment with DEC.

Symptoms of elephant legs in lymphatic disease

The review is published in the latest issue of the Cochrane Library, a publisher of the Cochrane International Collaboration, which evaluates medical research. These systematic reviews draw grounded conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of medical tests on a topic.

The new treatment may have a big effect on about 120 million people in 83 countries that are reported to be infected with lymphatic worms. This is the state because parasitic worms spread from mosquitoes into humans, after which they grow and reproduce the offspring. These animals are captured by mosquitoes, and grow into a form of infection that is then transmitted back to the community through mosquito bites.

Charles Mackenzie, a lymphatic pathologist at Michigan State University, said it was basically a disease of poverty, but he also suggested that lymphatic worms were linked between poor hygiene and heat. warmth. While people with this disease usually do not die, the extremities and genitalia become swollen, for men scrotum is especially vulnerable.

According to Dr. Ottesen, the disease makes these people shun people, they cannot work, greatly influences the residential economy and ruins their lives, which is one of the common things with These forgotten tropical diseases. The patients are not really killed, they only lose energy and are reduced to work productivity in the community lower than they have ever been.

Drug treatments are relatively effective in helping to remove adult worms and have a good effect on killing offspring from mosquito-borne mosquitoes to humans. However, when there are tens of millions of people infected, it is difficult to care for each person. Because DEC can kill worms that are only a million times smaller and because the drug only works if used multiple times, health workers must leave DEC in the mosquito supply to help patients use the right dose and regularly. .

According to experts, new studies suggest that DEC-impregnated salts are effective in reducing disease if maintained for at least six months. They also added salt treatments that can help eliminate spread if used over a long period of time. Experts also suggest that a low amount of DEC with a duration of about 6 months is better than using an immediate amount.

There are two things to consider before proceeding, which is a wide use of DEC that can lead to drug resistance despite a great deal of research on that ability, and further political and management commitments and Community promotion is essential for successful community programs.

According to Dr. Ottesen, in fact, while China was helped to reduce lymphatic worms, regulatory barriers prevented many countries from salt enrichment despite DEC's proven research. effective. He said drugs still have a therapeutic effect that patients do not need to know that they have to undergo treatment, it does not fool them but let them heal themselves without having to memorize anything.

Salt is still in the bag and they just use it, it's tasteless and no one knows they're taking DEC because the study has shown that it has no side effects and there's no negative reason for not using it.

Professor Mackenzie added that if the study was conducted as expected, the benefits would be huge, according to his preliminary calculations, every 60 people living on earth have 1 infected person or 1 in 15 people. either infected or at risk

The pharmaceutical companies and Gates corporations have supported during the operation of providing medicine to treat a group of devastating tropical diseases such as lymphatic disease, Dr. Ottesen concluded 'They are very cheap to have. can give up everything, but nobody knows about them and if you put them in a package, it will become effective '

Anh Phuong