- Hermina Solo<\/a><\/li>
- 26 July 2023<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
Get to know about the symptoms, causes and prevention of vitiligo<\/a><\/h3>
In general, Vitiligo is a skin disease. Vitiligo is a condition when the skin loses color or pigmentation, so the skin color becomes pale or white. In conditions like this that cause the skin to look striped because the original skin color will disappear in certain areas. Vitiligo disease cannot be contagious or dangerous. However, often this vitiligo disease makes sufferers lack confidence because the appearance of different skin colors and white patches can appear anywhere on the body such as on the face, lips, neck, hands and feet. And this vitiligo can occur because the sufferer has an autoimmune disorder. \n\n The initial symptoms that appear are spots that appear lighter in color than the skin color. Gradually the spots will turn pale or white. The appearance of white patches is not only on the skin of the face, lips, neck, hands and feet but vitiligo can appear on the hair, mouth and eyes. The spots are usually permanent and more prone to sunburn. Even if they don't cause irritation or a rash, the spots can sometimes itch. \n\n The following are the symptoms of vitiligo, namely: \n- The appearance of light-colored skin spots or patches, sometimes looking chalky white \n- Extensive skin patches \n- Sometimes the skin patches itch \n- Slowly the skin spots can expand \n- The appearance of gray hair on the hair \n- Changes in eye color \n\n Here are some factors that cause vitiligo, namely: \n- Sufferers experience skin damage, exposure to triggers such as those caused by sunburn \n- Factors that occur due to hereditary history \n- Patients suffering from other autoimmune diseases, such as diabetes, and hyperthyroidism \n- Factors of influence from the environment \n- Sufferers experience stress \n- Exposure to certain chemicals can cause vitiligo \n\n \n\n Prevention of vitiligo that can be done, namely by: \n- Consume healthy food and have a nutritious and balanced diet \n- Protect the skin optimally by using skin camouflage cream so that it can be protected and can also do skin care \n- Can avoid the environment being polluted by exposure to chemicals that come from paint coatings, heavy metals, and come from industry \n\n Friends of Hermina, if you experience the symptoms described earlier. Appropriate and fast treatment can minimize complications that may occur. So immediately carry out an examination by a Skin Specialist at Hermina Hospital so that proper treatment and action according to skin conditions can be carried out. \n\n \n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/div>- Hermina Kemayoran<\/a><\/li>
- 10 July 2023<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
Anthrax: Skin Infection, with Symptoms & Causes<\/a><\/h3>
What is anthrax? \n\n Anthrax is a disease caused by a kind of bacteria. It can make you ill in several different ways, depending on how you’re exposed to it. It can cause a skin infection, or a severe digestive illness that resembles “food poisoning.” Another form of the disease – “inhalation” anthrax – results when you breathe in the bacteria. Symptoms usually show up within seven days (typically two to five days) after you’re exposed. Symptoms depend on the form the disease takes: \n\n \n Cutaneous (skin) anthrax begins as a raised bump on the skin. Within one or two days, it becomes a blister, and then a painless ulcer, with a black area in the center. Lymph glands near the wound may become swollen. Skin anthrax is easily treated with antibiotics. \n Intestinal anthrax is very rare. It begins with nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, and fever. Those symptoms are followed by abdominal pain, vomiting of blood, and severe diarrhea. Early antibiotic treatment is important if you have intestinal anthrax. \n Inhalation anthrax begins with flu-like symptoms (cough, fever, muscle aches). These symptoms may last two to three days, and then appear to go away for one or two days. Then the illness can come back, resulting in severe lung problems, difficulty breathing, and shock. Unless it’s treated, inhalation anthrax can be very dangerous – it’s fatal in up to 90 percent of cases. With treatment, during the anthrax attacks of 2001, the death rate was about 40 percent. \n \n\n Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by anthrax bacteria. The bacteria are spread in the form of spores. A spore is a protective covering on the bacteria, like the shell of a seed. The spore keeps the bacteria alive for long periods of time, waiting for the right condition to grow. \n\n Anthrax can cause an infection in the skin, stomach and intestines (gastrointestinal tract), or lungs. People can become infected with anthrax by getting the spores in their bodies. This usually happens by handling infected animals or animal products. Skin (cutaneous) anthrax occurs after the bacterial spores come in contact with an opening in the skin, such as a cut or scrape. \n\n \n Not everyone exposed will get sick. \n If the infection occurs after exposure, symptoms often start within 1 to 7 days. \n The disease starts as a small red bump (like an insect bite) that turns into a blister. \n The blister breaks in 1 to 2 days. Then a painless black sore forms. This sore dries up in 1 to 2 weeks \n \n\n Skin anthrax symptoms start as bumps or blisters, but then get worse. Symptoms can include: \n\n \n A group of small blisters or bumps that may itch \n A painless skin sore (ulcer) with a black center that appears after the small blisters or bumps \n Often, a sore on the face, neck, arms, or hands \n Swelling around the sore \n \n\n Although it's very rare, it's possible for the skin form of anthrax to be passed on to another person. As an extra precaution, follow the instructions below. \n\n Check with Dermatology Specialist if you experience symptoms. Examination and treatment done as early as possible can prevent the infection from spreading and getting worse. \n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/div>- Hermina Mekarsari<\/a><\/li>
- 28 February 2023<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
Recognize Leprosy<\/a><\/h3>
When you hear the word LEPROSY, what kind of image comes to the mind of Hermina's best friend? An incurable curse disease with deformed face and limbs? or a disease that is so contagious that sufferers and their families must be shunned and even ostracized?\n\nLeprosy is one of the oldest infectious diseases in the history of human civilization. Leprosy has been proven to be curable, and the establishment of MDT (multi drug treatment) by WHO in the treatment of leprosy in 1982 proved successful in reducing the spread of infection and transmission. Nevertheless, the discovery of new cases is still high in some regions in Indonesia and Indonesia is still the third largest contributor of leprosy cases in the world after India and Brazil, with the discovery of 7,146 new cases in 2021. Efforts to eliminate leprosy face many obstacles in the field, including myths and stigma in society and discrimination against sufferers and their families. Coinciding with the commemoration of world leprosy day on January 29, it is time for us to avoid the stigmatization and discrimination of leprosy with a better understanding of leprosy, early detection, prevention and treatment so that the leprosy elimination program in Indonesia can be achieved immediately.\n\nLeprosy is caused by infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae which attacks the skin and peripheral nerves with long-term consequences without treatment in the form of disability and deformity. The process of division of the M. leprae bacteria occurs very slowly compared to other germs, so the transmission process requires prolonged and continuous contact, and tends not to be easily transmitted through brief contact such as shaking hands. The process of transmission of leprosy is believed to occur through inhalation of droplets contaminated with germs. However, the infection process is strongly influenced by the individual's immune response based on findings that more than 95% of individuals exposed to M.leprae do not develop leprosy. Leprosy patients who are not treated will become a source of infection for close contacts and family. So that diagnosis and treatment at an early stage is an important key in the leprosy eradication program. \n\n Early infection of leprosy is characterized by reddish or white patches with thick or numb feeling to numbness, without complaints of itching or pain. And can be accompanied by additional symptoms that are typical for leprosy, such as eyebrows and protrusions on the skin, especially the ears. In advanced leprosy infection, the initial symptoms may be accompanied by disorders of the peripheral nerves in the form of weakness to paralysis of the peripheral nerves in the form of complaints on the eyelids such as the inability to close the eyelids tightly, weakness of the muscles of the hands and feet, to disability in the hands and feet. Treatment of patients in the early phase of leprosy plays a very important role in suppressing the risk of transmission of leprosy to family or other close contacts and in preventing the risk of disability due to delayed treatment.\n\nExamination by a doctor is needed to confirm the diagnosis of leprosy. Diagnosis can be made on the basis of history and physical examination. However, in patients with atypical symptoms the doctor will examine smears from skin scrapings to examine tissue biopsies to make a diagnosis.\n\nThe standard treatment for leprosy from Who is using Multi Drug Treatment ( MDT). MDT can be obtained free of charge and distributed by the health office through the PUSKESMAS Health service. The duration of leprosy treatment depends on the type of leprosy, varies from 6 months to 12 to 18 months. During treatment the patient must be controlled regularly to monitor effectiveness and possible side effects and possible reactions, and ensure complete recovery when treatment is finished. \n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/div>- Hermina Banyumanik<\/a><\/li>
- 16 January 2023<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
LEPROSY<\/a><\/h3>
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae which attacks the skin, respiratory tract and peripheral nerves.\n\nLeprosy is transmitted by:\n\nContact with the skin of leprosy patients for a long time\nClose contact and transmission from the air (droplets) over a long period of time\nSigns and symptoms of leprosy:\n\nWhite or reddish patches on the skin that are numb\nPeripheral nerve damage (thickening, swelling, movement disorders, dry skin, hair loss)\nAcid-fast bacteria were found in laboratory tests\n\n\nIn addition to the cardinal signs above, the anamnesis shows:\n\nHistory of contact with leprosy patients\nFamily background with a history of living in endemic areas\nHistory of previous leprosy treatment. \n\n Types of leprosy based on WHO, 1988:\n\nPausibasilar (PB)\nThis includes leprosy of the TT and BT types according to Ridley-Jopling and the Indeterminate (I) type with negative smear.\n\nMultibasilar\nLeprosy types BB, BL, LL according to Ridley-Jopling and all types of leprosy with positive smear.\n\nTypes of leprosy (according to Ridley-Jopling):\n\nIndeterminate leprosy: white patches on the skin that are numb\nTuberculoid leprosy (TT): reddish spots on a rough surface, the center looks normal and numb.\nBorderline Tuberculoid (BT) Leprosy: Red, rough, numb spots with surrounding red spots.\nBorderline-borderline (BB) leprosy: reddish spots that are shaped like a numb donut.\nBorderline Leprosy (BL) leprosy: reddish spots that are numb like hives in several parts of the body.\nLepromatous-leprosy leprosy (LL): white or reddish spots that are numb with lumps all over the body and loss of eyebrows, changes in the shape of the nose, ears and face. \n\n Treatment for leprosy is given for 6-18 months, depending on the type of leprosy the patient has.\n\n\n\nSkin reactions due to leprosy:\n\nSpots on the skin appear clearer and more active after receiving treatment\n\n\nPainful red bumps appear all over the body and can be accompanied by fever\nExaminations that can be done to diagnose leprosy:\n\nScrapings of skin tissue on the earlobes or patches on the skin with Ziehl-Neelsen staining.\nTissue biopsy if the skin scraping results are in doubt.\nSerology tests (anti-PGL-1, IgM, IgG) or PCR.\nComplications that can occur due to leprosy:\n\nNumb skin is easily injured and difficult to heal until ulcers appear.\n\n\nPermanent disability that can interfere with the patient's daily activities\nPrevention of disability in leprosy:\n\nUse personal protective equipment when on the move.\nControl regularly and report any new complaints that arise to the doctor in charge.\nIf a nervous breakdown has appeared, you should consult a physiotherapy department. \n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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- 28 February 2023<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
- 10 July 2023<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
- 26 July 2023<\/li><\/ul><\/div>