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Mouse as one of the rodent animal, believed to become ringleader disease infection of leptopirosis for human being. Caused, a lot of this rodent “clan” gallivanting in settlement area, and like to urinated and defecated promiscuously. It is not strange if leptospira bacterium easily spread over everywhere, in water, land till crop.

This disease have the zoonosis character, that mean its catching from the animal to human being. Infection could happened if the mucous membrane of eye or nose, or because of our chafed husk or skin wound contacted directly with mouse urine. Sometimes leptospira also can entering into digestive through foods, beverages and an contaminated food appliances with mouse dirt or urine. Then leptospira will multiply, usually attacking liver organ and kidney, but it is not impossible for this bacterium disseminate to entire body.

HOW TO DETECTING IT?

It is rather a little difficult to detect it, because incidence of leptopirosis symptom is not specific. Symptom illness is look like an ordinary flu disease, or other ordinary “light” disease. But this disease have a identifying mark, its marked with existence of calf muscle pain and eye membrane inflamed / chafe. It is not strange when sometimes patient do not realize if have infection itself. The incubations period of leptopirosis since the bacterium entering the body till to emerge the symptom it range from 4 – 19 days, with mean of 10 days.

The other early symptom is marked with high fever, headache, trembling, weak or drawn, and weariness. If not handled immediately, patient will entering continuation phase with symptom looks like a yellow fever, such as a liver getting bigger and bleeding under the husk / skin. Patient also find difficulties to urinating because its kidney function annoyed / malfunction. As a result, patient require to get a “blood washing” treatment. This disease seldom also generate an complications, like meningitis, hepatitis, pneumonia, and heart failing which can cause death.

This disease can only accurate detected through urine inspection. Laboratory result will be proven positive if urine contained red blood corpuscle (eritrosit). Anyone can become a victims of this disease without aside. Special at pregnant woman can caused miscarriage, borne a premature baby, deformity baby or die in womb.

CAN BE PREVENTED?

So far, it is true that there is no vaccine of leptopirosis for human being yet. But, do not worry. Because this disease can be fought with antibiotic type such as penicillin, tetracycline, streptomycin, erictromycin and doxicyclin.

This disease can lose naturally if our body have endurance strength. But usually, even bacterium can be annihilated from body and blood system ( by body impenetrability /immunizing system ), its still can stay and multiply in kidney during sometimes. The infectious character bacterium will castaway trough the patient urine.

Remember, leptopirosis can attack any time, not only as seasonal disease when floods happened. “In fact, Leptopirosis is non malignancy disease as long as we can prevent and handling it at early time”.

Easiest way to lessen infecting is always keeping clean and hygiene our self and our environment, including your pets. Like, don't forgotten to clean hand with soap before eating, or after cleaning the house, after gardening, before cooking, and other things. Use disinfectant to clean your mop or broom at home. Avoid to heaping your goods, which may also can become as mouse den. Regularly checking your pets health such as dog, cat or other pets to veterinary.

When you have the symptom, immediately go to doctor. Don't forget to told to doctor whether if you have “bathed” in water floods or not. This informations will assist the doctor to detecting and also to handle its medication.