Dr. eye specialist in Mumbai, India. Akshay Nair was preparing for eye surgery on a 25-year-old woman. The woman recovered from Kovid three weeks ago. But his problem is different.
The BBC reports that the woman was infected with mucormycosis or a dangerous black fungus. This aggressive fungus spreads to the nose, eyes, and sometimes to the brain.
Last Saturday morning, a nose, ear, and throat specialist first inserted a tube into the woman's nose and removed the mycorrhizae-infected tissues. Then Dr. Nair was preparing for a three-hour operation to remove the woman's eyes. He said the woman's eyes had to be removed to save her life. In addition, there is no effective treatment for this disease at this stage.
While the horrific second wave of Covid-19 infection is taking the lives of many people in India, disrupting public life, Indian doctors say there is a rare infection in the body of those who recover from Covid - called 'Black Fungus' or scientific name Mucormycosis.
What is mucomycosis?
Mucormycosis is a very rare infection. This infection occurs when you come in contact with a fungus called mucosa. The fungus is commonly found in soil, plants, fertilizers and rotting fruits and vegetables.
Dr. Nair said it simply exists in soil and air. It can even be present at normal times in the nose and mucus of healthy people.
This fungus infects the sinuses, brain and lungs. People with diabetes, cancer or HIV / AIDS, or those with very low immunity to a disease are at the highest risk of infection from these mucositis.
Physicians believe that steroids used in the treatment of critically ill patients in the corona can cause myocardial infarction.
Seriously infected people with Covid-19 are now being treated with steroids to save their lives.
The steroid Covid-19 helps reduce pneumonia in infected people. When the body's immune system becomes too active to fight the coronavirus, doctors also use steroids to treat the damage caused to various parts of the body.
But the use of this steroid also lowers the normal immunity. In the case of diabetic patients, even those who do not have diabetes have high blood sugar levels.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is thought to be caused by a decrease in the body's own immune system.
Dr. is working in three hospitals in Mumbai, one of the most affected cities in the second wave of corona in India. Nair. He said about 40 patients were infected with the fungus in April. Many of them were diabetics and have recovered from Covid-19 with treatment at home. One of their 11 eyes had to be surgically removed.
In addition, from December to February last year, 56 people in five Indian cities - Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi and Pune - were reported to be infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis by six of Nair's colleagues. Most of these patients became infected within 12 to 15 days of recovering from Covid-19.
In the last two months, 24 patients have been admitted to Zion Hospital in Mumbai. Renuka Bradu, head of the hospital's nose, ear and throat department, said there were only six such patients a year earlier.
Of the 24 patients who came in the last two months, 11 lost their eyes one by one and 8 died. Most of these patients are middle-aged and suffer from diabetes. They were diagnosed with a fungal infection two weeks after recovering from Covid-19.
Dr. Renuka said that now they are getting two to three such patients a week. This is another terrible thing in an epidemic.
Raghuraj Hegde, an ophthalmologist from Bangalore, said the same. He said he had received 19 cases of myocardial infarction in the last two weeks. Most of these patients are young in age. The doctor said many of them were so ill that surgery was not possible.
Doctors say they are shocked by the severity of the fungal infection in the second wave of corona and its rapid spread. This fungal infection was relatively low during the first wave of covid last year.
Dr. Nair says he has not received more than 10 cases in Mumbai in the last two years. Dr. Hegde says he has never seen one or more cases a year in his two decades of medical life in Bangalore.
Symptoms of myocardial infarction include nasal congestion and nosebleeds, swollen eyes and eye pain, difficulty closing the eyelids, blurred vision, and loss of vision. The skin of the nose also becomes dark.
Doctors say most patients come to them late, when they lose their sight. That's why there's no way to stop the fungus from going to the brain without surgery.
Mumbai diabetes doctor said. Rahul Boxi said that the only way to avoid this fungal infection is to ensure that the patient with Covid-19 is given the right amount of steroids for the right amount of time during treatment and recovery.
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