How much do you know about leprosy?

This article guided: Leprosy is a kind of disease, so that people are afraid of the disease, want to understand the disease and small weave together to see.

When it comes to leprosy, I've never seen it before, just seen it in movies and TV dramas, it's a very serious contagious disease, only knowing that patients with leprosy will become very ugly and scary, and that although it will rarely lead to death, it will cripple. In recent years, people's understanding of leprosy has become increasingly blurred, because in China there is little leprosy, but in other countries the epidemic persists. Therefore, the prevention and treatment of leprosy is very important.

Starting in 1953, the World Health Organization (WHO) will make the last Sunday of the year January a worldwide day for leprosy prevention. This anniversary was created to arouse tolerance for lepers, respect for their character and freedom, and encourage and help them to receive the same treatment and life as other patients. was initiated by a lawyer. It has been 61 years now and the world's work to combat leprosy is continuing.

Once leprosy suffers, the consequence is very terrible, therefore, the most important thing is prevention, how to prevent leprosy?

1, to strengthen the popularization of knowledge and publicity. Perhaps a lot of people do not know about leprosy, but there is no concept, the most important thing to prevent leprosy is to let people understand some of the relevant knowledge of leprosy, active self prevention.

2. The current prevention of leprosy is not very effective measures, so we should closely monitor the prevalence of children in endemic areas, as well as patients ' families. Also included are those close contacts who have a negative effect of both leprosy and tuberculin, either by BCG vaccination or by giving effective chemical medications for preventive treatment.

3, if the discovery of a large area popular, can be in the epidemic area of BCG vaccination for all personnel, mainly to enhance the resistance of the population.

4, once found leprosy patients, must carry out rapid isolation treatment, because this is the infectious disease caused by leprosy, and, infectious very strong, through droplets can infect, therefore, the patient must be isolated, to avoid rapid transmission.

5, for leprosy patients should strengthen nutrition, develop good habits and eating habits, but also appropriate to participate in labor, stop sex life. At the same time to keep the living environment clean, keep the room fresh and sunny air.

6, usually pay attention to enhance resistance. Since leprosy is a bacterial infection, as long as we have very strong resistance and immunity, we can stay away from leprosy, the best way to improve resistance: To strengthen exercise, must be regular exercise, exercise can build up the body, enhance resistance, and is to eat more food containing protein, At the same time also need to eat more fruit containing VC, so that we have a stronger ability to withstand a variety of diseases.

Leprosy patients may become ugly, but we should not discriminate against them and treat them the same as other diseases, which is the true meaning of setting the world's leprosy prevention day.