Doctors Point to Deadly Covid-Related Yeast Infection After Ganga Ram Hospital Detects 12 Cases in 15 Days


By: Express News Service | New Delhi |

Updated: December 15, 2020 9:25:56 am





Mohali Covid death rate, MOhali coronavirus cases, covid unjab cases, Mohali news, Punjab news, Indian Express newsSymptoms are numbness of the face, a blocked nose on one side, or swelling of the eyes or pain. ENT surgeons take samples for culture and begin definitive medical treatment that could prevent medical loss.

Doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital have witnessed more than 12 cases of the mucormycosis fungus triggered by Covid-19, which causes loss of sight, removal of the nose and jaw and 50% mortality in cases in which affects the brain, in 15 days. .

Black fungus or mucormycosis, formerly called zygomycosis, is a serious but rare fungal infection caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes that exist in the environment. Mucormycosis mainly affects people who have health problems or who take medications that reduce the body’s ability to fight germs and disease.

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Black fungus or mucormycosis is caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes. Mucormycosis mainly affects people who have health problems or who take medications that reduce the body’s ability to fight germs and disease.

Dr Manish Munjal, the hospital’s chief otolaryngologist surgeon, said: “The frequency with which we are witnessing the appearance of Covid triggering mucormycosis with high morbidity and mortality is alarming. Early clinical suspicion of symptoms such as a blocked nose, swelling in the eye or cheeks, and dry black crusts in the nose should promptly prompt a biopsy and the initiation of antifungal therapy as soon as possible. “

Symptoms are numbness of the face, a blocked nose on one side, or swelling of the eyes or pain. ENT surgeons take samples for culture and begin definitive medical treatment that could prevent medical loss.

In one case, a 32-year-old man who had recovered from Covid-19 experienced a bothersome nose blockage on the left side, which quickly turned into eye puffiness within two days, after which he approached the doctors. The left side of his face had become completely numb and he was taken to the hospital emergency room in a partially disoriented and clouded state.

“His tests revealed very high levels of sugar and infection, but even more lethal, the presence of a rare killer fungus called Mucor, which was removed from the remains of his nose. An MRI revealed that the infection had already destroyed a significant part of the left side sinuses, the eye, the upper jaw bone and muscles, and had even reached the brain, ”said Dr. Munjal.

Extensive surgical debridement was performed by a team of otolaryngologists and ophthalmic surgeons, and the patient subsequently had to receive life-saving antifungal medication and critical care life support for more than two weeks.

Early detection can prevent loss of sight, nose or jaw through clinical intervention, doctors said. Dr. Shaloo Bageja, a senior eye surgeon at the hospital, said: “Orbital involvement (the bony cavity that contains the eyeball) is a serious development in the course of this disease and points not only towards the possibility of permanent loss of the eye. sight but also life because the involvement of the brain is the main cause of death in mucormycosis “.

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