What are the main symptoms of leprosy?

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Leprosy this disease occurs, there are many symptoms, some leprosy symptoms are more serious, some symptoms are not very serious, but no matter what the symptoms of leprosy patients should be more understanding, timely treatment, the following is a detailed introduction of the symptoms of leprosy.

What are the main symptoms of leprosy?

The immunity of this type of patients is strong, and M. leprae is confined to the skin and nerves. Skin lesions are characterized by rashes and plaques, usually one or two in number, neat and clear edges, shallow sensory disturbance, asymmetric distribution, and hair shedding at the lesion. The color of the rash is light and reddish, and there is no scale on the surface. The color of the plaque is usually dark red with clear outline. The thick cutaneous nerve can be felt near the lesion. Sometimes the lymph nodes near the lesion become larger. Hair, eyebrows generally do not fall off, hair in the limbs, face, buttocks, in addition to the scalp, groin, armpit, other parts can appear.

This type of peripheral nerve involvement, nerve rod thickening, spindle, nodular or beaded, hard, tender, mostly unilateral, serious due to delayed type hypersensitivity reaction can form abscess or fistula. Some patients with neurological symptoms without skin damage, known as pure neuritis. The clinical manifestations were nerve enlargement, skin sensory disturbance and myasthenia. When the nerve is seriously involved, the nerve nutrition, movement and other functions are impaired, and thenar muscles and interosseous muscles atrophy, forming "claw hand", "ape hand", "wrist drop", "ulcer", "rabbit eye", "finger (toe) bone absorption" and other manifestations. The deformity occurred earlier. This type of bacteria is generally negative. The late reaction of leprosy bacteriocin test was positive.

Leprosy is mostly caused by leprosy bacteria, which will cause certain damage to the immune function of the human body. After the death of leprosy bacteria in the human body, a large number of antigens will be released, which will cause damage to the human tissue, and then patients will have leprosy erythema nodosum, iridocyclitis, neuritis and other symptoms, These are also some of the main symptoms of leprosy, we must pay attention to.

matters needing attention

The harm of this disease to the human body is relatively large, therefore, we must bear in mind the characteristics of this disease, only in this way can we find the disease in the early stage as soon as possible, so that we can better treat it.