Myths Related to Leprosy

Leprosy: Leprosy
Prof.Dr.Esin ŞENOL
GOUT. Department of Infectious Diseases
Mycobacterium leprae caused by the skin and nerves, holding a slow-running, sequelae is a fatal disease.
It is also known as the ın Hansen Disease “, the name of the researcher who found the bacillus or the causative agent.
It is thought that the patient is infected by cough, sneezing and secretions. However, very long and very close contact is required. It is an easy infectious disease.
Nerves holds the skin, eyes and nasal mucosa.
Heal without sequela with early diagnosis and treatment.
If left untreated, it causes paralysis, blindness and paralysis in the hands and feet, leading to the collapse of the nose called nose-to-nose.
Although it is a rare disease, it is still a public health problem in the world.

• WHO (World Health Organization) reported 200,000 new cases in 2016. The cases are India, Brazil, Indonesia and some African countries. • 70% of new cases are in India. • It is seen in the poor, poorly-educated, poor-fed poor.

• There are 2-3 million people living with leprosy in the world.

It is a disease that can be treated with antibiotics.
However, there is a very long incubation period of 20-30 years and it is very slow. In this respect, it is difficult to detect.
Although leprosy and scary disease of ancient times is perceived to have disappeared from the world, hundreds of thousands of new cases are reported each year.
Let us clarify some of the myths about this stigmatized disease that pushed people out of society in the past centuries:
✓ Leprosy is a highly contagious disease çok myth z. It is not a very contagious disease. Basil does not contaminate 95%

✓ It is a. Myth bir which decreases the fingers and toes. In fact, due to damage to the sensory nerves, burn and trauma associated with the fingers and toes are caused by such loss. It is seen in cases without treatment.

✓ Leprosy and leprosy mentioned in very old historical and sacred books and ages are different diseases that do not show the same symptoms, symptoms and infectiousness.

✓ Not even a patient with leprosy an myth z. Standing side by side, such as hand shaking is not transmitted by chance.

✓ Leprosy is a lethal disease. It is a non-lethal disease with leprosy treatment.

Leprosy is a disease that is still seen both in our country and in the world.
It can be cured by early diagnosis and adequate treatment.
The aim of the WHO was to be eliminated as a major public health problem in the 1990s and this disease, which was reported to have been eliminated in all endemic countries in 2000, has played a very important role in the struggle and eradication of the disease in our country by Prof.Dr.Türkan Saylan and the established Juzzam War Association.