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A new disease that affects humans, especially Corona patients, has recently spread, which is black fungus, black mold or Mucormycotic, so what is it? And what are its symptoms? And who gets hurt? And how to treat it? And how to prevent this fungus? We will learn all this and more, and we will discuss it in this article

First: What is the black fungus (Mucormycotic)?

Black fungus is a fungus that has existed from ancient times, not recent. It is a very rare infection that is the result of exposure to mold, which is usually found in soil, natural manure, plants, fruits and decomposing vegetables.

Second: Who is affected?

a) leukemia patients

b) Patients who undergo organ transplantation

c) Patients who use immunosuppressants and corticosteroids extensively

D) Corona virus patients

e) Medicines used to treat corona virus have a major cause of the spread of this mold

This mold infects severely ill patients. Despite all this, the possibility of infection with this mold is rare and reaches less than 1% of patients who suffer in the intensive care unit in hospitals.

This mold is not as dangerous as people imagine, because the probability of infection with this mold is low, as we mentioned previously, but in the case of infection with this mold, its symptoms are serious and large and may end the life of the patient.

Therefore, the disease is not dangerous, but it is very difficult to catch it if this mold manages to control the patient by deceiving him.

This disease has been associated with corona virus patients because the corona virus breaks down red blood cells and weakens immunity by breaking down antibodies

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Third: What are the factors that make the black fungus attack and infect the patient?

a) Corona virus patients

b) Very sick patients who use large doses of corticosteroids such as dexamethasone, which weakens immunity

c) the psychological factor

d) Diabetics, poor nutrition, or leukemia patients. The greater the presence of these diseases in a person, the greater the deterioration of the patient if he was infected with black mold.

e) the presence of black fungus in the community

Not every patient infected with these dangerous factors will be infected with black mold. The black fungus must be present in the environment or society for the disease to occur.

So, if this mold is not present in the surrounding environment, this mold will not be infected, and the presence of this fungus depends on the cleanliness of the hospitals in a very important way.

In the old days, with the presence of factors that might make the black fungus attack and be able to the patient, these infections did not exceed 1%.

Now with the presence and use of corticosteroids in high doses, the use of immunosuppressants, and the spread of the Corona virus, the possibility of infection with black mold or black fungus has increased.

Fourth: What are the places of injury in the body?

Black mold affects three places in the body:

a) The sinuses are the most common

b) the lungs

c) the digestive system

Fifth: How does black fungus or black mold cause disease?

Any place affected by black mold affects the blood vessels that feed the affected area. The blood that reaches this place is cut off, and the place atrophies and dies.

For example, if the sinus area is infected, there will be erosion inside the sinuses, and the fungus will continue to eat in the bone until it reaches the eye and around the eye and the nerves that feed the eye and the fifth nerve and begins to enter the brain

In Egypt, all Corona virus patients who were infected with this mold were infected in the sinus area

Sixth: What are the symptoms of black mold infection?

A) High temperature, and this is a known symptom in patients with the Corona virus

b) Severe headache in sinus areas

C) Infections in the sinus areas, and then there will be a tumor around the eye, and this is in the advanced stages of infection with black mold

As we talked about earlier, this black mold causes problems in the area of ​​the injury, as it cuts off the blood that reaches the place, and thus this place dies and can cause sores in the nose, and it can also cause erosion in the sinuses and may reach the roof of the throat.

Black mushrooms have an enzyme called ketone reductase, which causes the virus to feed on ketone bodies.

Any patient with ketogenic bodies has many.

This patient will be susceptible to this mold and this mold will be more fierce for him than others.

People who do the keto diet if they have corona disease should stop the diet for fear of mold infection

Patients with poor nutrition and who follow a harsh diet (starvation) and diabetics who did not control the sugar level in their bodies and it was bad are more likely to get mold and this mold grows faster and larger than others, God forbid.

unnecessary use of corticosteroids such as dexamethasone is the cause of the spread of black mold.

Patients with high cholesterol who use statins have very good luck, as it has been proven that these drugs prevent and reduce the growth of black fungus, and therefore if this patient is infected, it is easy to treat and his condition will not deteriorate quickly.

There are studies to use the statins group in the treatment protocol for the Corona virus to prevent the spread of black mold, especially for diabetic patients, to not exacerbate the disease

Seven: What is the treatment for black mold?

To treat black mold before the condition worsens, an injection of amphotericin, which is an anti-fungal, can be used in the hospital.

References

1) Dr. salah

2) NCBI