Patna: Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), which is known locally as ‘Chambi Bukhar’, which is the main cause of death of many children in Muzaffarpur and the northern districts for the past 25 years, almost contained this year.
Thanks to the intervention of health care and mass awareness created by health experts and voluntary organizations, only two children who have died so far because of this disease.
Muzaffarpur Civil Surgeon Dr.
Vinay Kumar Sharma said that at all 20 cases AES was reported from all districts and only two of them died.
The two deaths were reported from the lung block.
By opposing this, as many as 418 children were found to be affected by this disease and 104 of them died in Muzaffarpur Regency only in 2019.
After this, the government created infrastructure facilities in children in various hospitals and health centers and recorded a number Good doctor.
“In addition to drugs, OR, glucometres etc.
are available in sufficient quantities in all primary health centers,” Sharma said.
A civil surgeon also said that efforts were also carried out to create public awareness in rural areas by hiring automatic pedicabs equipped with audio systems that moved from villages to villages that educate people about the prevention of this disease.
The help of the village level doctors and local social and voluntary organizations is also sought.
Muzaffarpur Children of Pediatricians Dr.
Arun Shah, who has made a broad study of AES in five Muzaffarpur Regency blocks from March 15 to June 30 this year, found that, for the first time in the last 25 years, not a single child who died this year , Dr.
Shah, with local administration cooperation, has launched an aggressive awareness campaign in all these blocks with more than 10 lakh populations.
Dr.
Shah said people were told to ensure that their children did not go to sleep without eating at night.
Fasting for hours after consuming Litchi has become the root cause of this disease, he said.
Prove the Shah version of the Virology and Professor of Virology at Christian Medical College, Vellore, Dr.
Jacob John, said in May and June before the rainy season every year, this disease was triggered by raw semi-cooked fruit consumption.
From toxins (hypoglycine A and MCPG) by malnourished children.
No nutritious child will be the victim of acute hypoglycemic encephalopathy even if he consumes such fruits, including Litchi, he said.
Dr.
John said that even though children were dying because of this disease for a long time, the correct diagnosis could be made recently.
He said that malnutrition, going to bed empty stomach and easy access to Litchis are the root causes of this disease.
Former Deputy Director of the Indian Toxicology Institute based in Lucknow, Dr.
beat Das, who has conducted a toxicological study of Litchis planted in Muzaffarpur, said toxin called methylene cyclopropyl glycine (MCPG) found in Litchi responsible for causing hypoglycemic encephalopathy.
“Litchi doesn’t endanger nutritious children, but only in children who lack nutrition who eat Litchi fruit the previous day and go to sleep with an empty stomach,” he added.