Diethylcarbamazine

it. One of the ways to avoid the mosquito’s bites is wearing long sleeves and shorts. Throughout the day use mosquito repellent to avoids stings or bite. When it comes to at night before going to bed have a mosquito net set up to help sleep at night so won’t be stung while in your sleep. Thoroughly wash hands and feet, apply ointment and wear shoes. Lastly, when someone is infected with Elephantiasis there are treatments for the disease. With certain treatments, the main goal is eliminating the microfilaria from the bloodstreams. Bed rest and to elevate the swelling and with using the bandages to compress it, following with a wash to the skin carefully and fully dry it. With any medication, the U.S have developed a drug called Diethylcarbamazine or DEC. With this drug, it can kill both microfilaria and the adult worm in the bloodstream. Analysis Looking Elephantiasis at first thought it was a disease only elephants could get. Starting when it was discovered back in the late 1500’s. When looking over countless websites and looking over several things about this disease. When looking on how is it caused saying being stung by a female mosquito. The information found about this disease was grotesque looking at how it was caused and the symptoms. In my own opinion on Elephantiasis, it’s a disease where no should ever suffer from the main cause of how it effects in long-term effect. There are people in India who walking around to this day don’t even know if they have it…

Taxonomy: Domain- Eukaryota , Kingdom- metazoa, Phylum- nematoda, Class-Secernentea, order-spirurida, family- filliradia, genus- Wuchereria, species- Wuchereria bancrofti The common name of Wuchereria bancrofti is filariasis worm, What does your worm look like? The Wuchereria bancrofti curls like an s at both ends . The female is longer and curls up at the end while male is shorter and also curls. What is the worms life cycle? A mosquito transfer larvae of the worm into blood stream of human…

Loiasis is called the African eye worm. It is caused by the parasitic worm Loa loa. This disease is transmitted by horseflies breeding in the forests of West and Central Africa. Loiasis gets its name from the well-known sign which is the visible passing of the Loa loa worm through the eye. Day to day the disease has receives little to no attention. Loiasis considered as a barrier to other disease control efforts. This is so because individuals with a large amount of Loa loa larvae in the blood…

disease. Serological techniques may be used to test patients for high levels of anti-filarial IgG4 in the blood that is usually common when patients have the infection (CDC, 2013). The disease can be detected through routine assays (CDC, 2013). People who have the following symptoms should be tested for the disease immediately: Swelling or hardening of the skin, severe swelling or lymphedema in the extremities, and acute episodes of severe swelling called filarial fevers (Global Network, 2015).…

lymphedema. Lymphedema is not deadly but can cripple people if not treated right or properly taken care of. If the collection of lymph fluid occurs for a long amount of time it will then cause Elephantiasis which is a syndrome that is that is caused by the long term obstruction of the lymphatic vessels and lead to extreme swelling, thickened skin and can cause extremities to become disfigured (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The disease can severely cripple host which…