Banten Must Fight Serious elephantiasis

Written By Luthfie fadhillah on Sunday, March 13, 2011 | 8:29 AM

Banten Provincial Government should seriously combat the spread of disease elephantiasis (filariasis) by giving the allocation of funds for mass treatment. As stated by observers of infectious disease problems in Rangkasbitung Dr. Alwan Amirudin Saturday.
    
Alwan said the type of infectious disease would be prevented as early as possible so as not to spread, extending and transmitting it to other citizens.

Therefore, local governments must allocate funds for prevention and eradication.

"I am concerned if it did not attack city government allocated funds for elephant foot disease prevention," he said.

According to him, or elephantiasis, filarial disease is transmitted by various species of mosquitoes of the person who suffered permanent swelling in the feet or hands. Filariasis will attack the members of the feet and hands like the size of an elephant.
    
To prevent the disease, especially in areas of endemic disease elephantiasis, first performed taking blood Sidik Jari (SDJ) at night, because it is transmitted through mosquito bites.

"This blood sampling could not be done in the daytime," he said. After that, carried to a laboratory blood studies Ministry of Health (MoH) in Jakarta to ensure negative or positive.

Furthermore, to citizens around the elephant foot disease endemic area, would have made mass treatment.

"It's very costly because it amounted to thousands of people," he said. Amirudin Alwan explained that currently merupkan elephantiasis disease transmission threat to society, local government is not serious when allocating funds to hold a mass treatment.

According to him, to turn off the filarial worm virus that patients can take medicine Dethyl Carbamazine (DEC) for repeated for the worms die and do not undermine the victim's body.
    
Transmission of infectious disease elephantiasis due to filarial worms, which live on the tract and lymph nodes (lymph nodes) that result in acute and chronic symptoms.

They were clinically cause inflammation in the lymph glands and channels, especially in the groin area and underarms. However, the type of elephant foot disease does not cause death, but can cause social burden in society.

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