Late symptoms of leprosy?

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Speaking of leprosy, it is a disease that many people have heard of. Leprosy is a highly infectious disease. If measures are not taken in time, it is likely to spread the disease to friends around. What about the late symptoms of leprosy? Let's talk about it

Late symptoms of leprosy?

The characteristics of intermediate boundary leprosy like lesions are pleomorphic and polychromatic. The rash type includes macular eruption, plaque, infiltration, etc. The color has grape wine color, dry yellow, brown yellow, red, brown and so on. Sometimes two colors appear on a single lesion. The edge is partly clear and partly unclear.

Mycobacterium leprae is confined to 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 leprosy is similar to tuberculous leprosy. It is a kind of rash and plaque with light red, purplish red or brown yellow color. Part of the boundary is neat and clear. In some plaques, there is a "blank area" or "hole area" in the center, forming a ring damage with clear inner and outer edges. The skin within the hole area seems to be normal. Most of the damaged surfaces are smooth and some are covered with a little scales.

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The initial dose was 50mg per day and 100mg per day for 4 weeks. The drug was taken for 6 days a week and stopped for 1 day. After 3 months, the drug was stopped for 2 weeks. Side effects include anemia, drug eruption, granulocytopenia and liver and kidney dysfunction. In recent years, due to the emergence of dapsone resistant strains of leprosy, the use of combination therapy is advocated.