Lepra Symptoms
Early symptoms begin in cooler areas of the body and include loss of sensation.
Lepra symptoms. Loss of feeling in the arms and legs muscle weakness. The appearance of skin lesions that are lighter than normal skin and remain for weeks or months patches of skin with decreased sensation such as touch pain and heat muscle weakness numbness in the hands feet legs and arms known as glove and stocking anesthesia eye. The bacterium that causes leprosy grows very slowly and can take two to 10 years before signs and symptoms appear according to the centers for disease control and prevention cdc.
Later large ulcerations loss of digits skin nodules and facial disfigurement may develop. The main symptoms include. Asides the nerves leprosy also tends to affect the eyes the lining of the nose and sometimes the eyes.
Disfigurement hair loss particularly on the eyebrows and eyelashes muscle weakness permanent nerve damage in the arms and legs inability to use hands and feet chronic nasal congestion nosebleeds and collapse of the nasal septum iritis which is an inflammation of the iris of. Nerve damage can lead to. Symptoms of leprosy generally leprosy mostly affects the skin as well as the nerves that are found outside the central nervous system brain and the spinal cord.
Paralysis and crippling of hands and feet shortening of toes and fingers due to reabsorption chronic non healing ulcers on the bottoms of the feet blindness loss of eyebrows nose disfigurement. These nerves are collectively known as the peripheral nervous system. If left untreated the signs of advanced leprosy can include.