Pune: Mucormycosis related covid (cam) or black mushrooms has dropped significantly, but new cases in small amounts continue to appear.
Last week, three new cam cases were reported in Pune District between December 2 and December 8.
Five patients gave up on complications last month.
In addition, a total of 21 patients currently undergoing treatment in various hospitals in this district, including the Sassoon General Hospital managed by the government.
Treating a doctor has appealed to citizens not to delay seeking medical care if they face complaints during or after Covid recovery.
With this, the total number of CAM cases has reached 1,548 in the region in the past eight months.
New case detection has slowly in Wane since the beginning of September.
Of the total 1,548 patients, 1,298 has recovered from invasive fungal infections – which mainly attacks sinuses – and 229 has given up on complications so far.
The best known factors to contract mucorikosis in recovering covid patients is a combination of uncontrolled diabetes and steroid use.
“Most new patients are being referred to Pune from neighboring districts, including Ahmednagar and Solapur.
Quite a number of these cases have developed complications when they delay seeking medical care on time,” said Sassoon Hospital’s Ent Surgeon, Samir Joshi.
Changes in blackish colors over the nose bridge or palate or blurry or double vision with pain have emerged as a leading red flag with one-sided face pain or numbness, toothache and sinusitis, experts say, experts say.
Mucorikosis cases, or black mushrooms, have increased significantly during the second wave (February-August) this year.
However, the case of the Musormycosis began to decline after a drastic decline in cases of Daily Covid across the state.
“Previously, we would see mukormycosis 20 to 40 cases every week.
The weekly number has dropped to three to four cases now,” the official official said Additional District Abhay Tidke.