Doctors monitor Thai boys for cave disease after their rescue

The 12 boys of a youth football team and their coach have now been rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand after spending more than two weeks trapped inside. The next step is to help them recover, and doctors observe a specific type of complication in the health of Thai cave boys: caveman's disease.

Cavern disease, also called histoplasmosis, is an infection caused by a fungus called Histoplasma, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The fungus lives in the environment, especially in the soil with large amounts of feces from birds or bats, and people may have histoplasmosis after breathing microscopic fungal spores [19659003] What are the symptoms of cave sickness? a significant amount of time in a cave that could easily have these spores, doctors will monitor the signs of cave sickness and other infections among members of the young football team.

Many people who breathe in spores do not get sick, the CDC reports, and most patients get sick without medication. But people who get sick from cavern sickness can have fever, cough, fatigue, chills, headaches, chest pains and body aches. And the symptoms of histoplasmosis can appear anywhere between 3 and 17 days after a person breathes in the fungal spores.

However, the CDC reports that severe histoplasmosis can occur in some people, especially those with weakened immune systems. In some cases, histoplasmosis can turn into a long-term lung infection or spread from the lungs to other parts of the body, such as the central nervous system.

The Thai football team in the cave of Tham Luang Nang

How is cave disease treated?

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Symptoms of histoplasmosis usually go away without treatment, reports the CDC. But a prescription antifungal medicine may be needed to treat severe histoplasmosis in the lungs, chronic histoplasmosis and disseminated histoplasmosis, that is, when infections spread from one person to another. lungs to other parts of the body

. cave itself, a complete recovery can still be an outlet.

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