Can filaria be cured completely?

Lymphatic filariasis can be eliminated by stopping the spread of infection through preventive chemotherapy with safe medicine combinations repeated annually. More than 7.7 billion treatments have been delivered to stop the spread of infection since 2000.

How long does lymphatic filariasis last?

The worms can live an average of six to eight years and throughout their life produce millions of small larvae (microfilariae) that circulate in the blood. When lymphatic filariasis becomes chronic, it causes lymphedema or elephantiasis (swelling of the skin and other tissues) of limbs and hydrocele.

What is the natural cure for filaria?

Natural remedies like Scarlet Leadwort and Ajwain were providing clues for developing drugs with the capacity to kill adult filarial worms, said Nisha Mathew, a scientist of the Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC), Pondicherry (Puducherry), which is an institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research, on Thursday.

Is elephantiasis curable?

There are medicines to treat elephantiasis. Your doctor may give you one called diethylcarbamazine (DEC). You’ll take it once a year. It will kill the microscopic worms in your bloodstream.

What should be avoided in filaria?

Milk and products, fish, jaggery, sweets and contaminated water must be avoided.

How does filariasis start?

The disease spreads from person to person by mosquito bites. When a mosquito bites a person who has lymphatic filariasis, microscopic worms circulating in the person’s blood enter and infect the mosquito.

Is elephantiasis completely curable?

What are the symptoms of filaria?

Symptoms may include itchy skin (pruritis), abdominal pain, chest pain, muscle pain (myalgias), and/or areas of swelling under the skin. Other symptoms may include an abnormally enlarged liver and spleen (hepatosplenomegaly), and inflammation in the affected organs.