What Causes Brucellosis?
Brucellosis in humans occurs when a person comes into contact with an animal or animal product infected with the Brucella bacteria.
- Through a cut or scratch in the skin
- Contaminated air (very rare)
- Eat or drink something contaminated with the bacteria. (such as unpasteurized milk or undercooked meat, eggs etc)
There are four types of Brucella bacteria cause the majority of brucellosis infections in humans:
Brucella Melitensis
This type causes most cases of human brucellosis and is mainly found in sheep and goats. It is most often seen in:
- Spain.
- Greece
- Latin America.
- Middle East.
- India.
Brucella Suis
This infection found in wild pigs is the most common type of Brucella seen in the U.S. Brucellosis due to this strain most often occurs in the Southeast and California. It also occurs in Europe, South America, and Southeast Asia especially in India.
Brucella Canis
The infection from this type of bacteria spreads from dogs. It is most often seen in:
- North, Central, and South America.
- Japan.
- Central Europe.
Brucella Abortus. This infection comes from cattle. It occurs worldwide. It has been wiped out in several European countries, Japan, Israel, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
O My Dog!
Dogs can become infected with Brucella Canis, but the disease is usually mild. There is at least one known case of brucellosis spreading to a human by a dog bite.
One could be infected from dog if he/she come in contact with blood or other fluids from the animal; that’s why veterinarians have an increased risk of brucellosis.
Risk Factors for Brucellosis
In the U.S.A and India, where brucellosis is more common, person who become infected with the disease most often work or have worked around livestock, Eat other unpasteurized cheeses called “village cheeses, Travel to areas where Brucella is common, Work in a meat-processing plant or slaughterhouse or in a farm, hunters etc.
Symptoms of Brucellosis
General symptoms of brucellosis are often vague and similar to the flu. They may include:
- Fever (the most common symptom, with high “spikes” that usually occur in the afternoon).
- Back pain.
- Body-wide aches and pains.
- Poor appetite and weight loss.
- Headache.
- Night sweats.
- Weakness.
- Abdominal pain.
- Cough.
Incubation period that is symptoms usually appear within five to 30 days after contact with the infected animal, person or any other source.
How bad your symptoms are depending on type of Brucella:
- Brucella Abortus usually causes mild or moderate symptoms, but they are more likely to become chronic (long-lasting).
- Brucella Canis symptoms may come and go having symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea along with temperature, body aches, lumbago, night sweats, weakness and poor appetite.
- Brucella Suis may cause areas of infection (abscesses) in different organs/places.
- Brucella Melitensis may cause sudden and severe symptoms, which may lead to disability.
How Is Brucellosis Diagnosed?
Brucella infections have following symptoms:
- Hepatomegaly (liver swelling)
- Swollen lymph nodes
- splenomegaly (swollen spleen)
- Unexplained fever
- Joint swelling and pain
- Body rashes
Blood tests will be done to diagnose the infection and determine what type of Brucella is the cause of sickness (Proper identification of the bacteria helps pinpoint the source of the infection).
How Is Brucellosis Treated?
Allopathically Brucellosis can be difficult to treat, Antibiotics commonly used in allopathic drugs for 6-8 weeks to treat brucellosis, for example:
- doxycycline
- streptomycin
- ciprofloxacin
- rifampin
- sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim
- tetracycline
P.S: Patient must take the antibiotics for many weeks to prevent the disease from returning, the rate of relapse following treatment is about 5-15% and usually occurs within the first six months after treatment.
Homoeopathic Treatment for Brucellosis
Brucella melitensis-200/1M:
Severe bones pain, fever 102-104C, Respiratory tract infection (s), flu with temperature, bronchitis, skin infections, granulomatous, erythema.
Becillus Calmette-200/1M:
Flu like symptoms – temperature sometimes high fever malaise and anorexia, Chill, nausea/vomiting (liver involvement), osteomyelitis (body/bones pains), body or a part burning, hypotension, severe bronchitis and even pneumonia, inflammation, granulomatous, leukoplakia, peeling and/or scaling of skin, erythema nodosum, red papules, abscesses, night sweats.
Argentum Metallicum (Colloidal silver) {Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS}:
Before the invention of the refrigerator, it was common practice to drop a silver coin into a container of milk as a preservative because silver was known to prevent the growth of algae, bacteria and other
undesirable organisms. Dating back to ancient times, silver was also a popular remedy to stop the spread of diseases.
In modern lab tests (by NCBI), silver is getting its fame back as a safe, multi-purpose bacterial killer. It is known to kill superbugs, such as MRSA, and has been tested against 650 common and exotic infections and diseases.
This is one of the most used and the most recommended natural cures for brucellosis.
It has antibacterial properties which are making it perfect natural remedy for Malta fever, it is also equally effective at resisting strains of bacteria, and it does not cause any further mutations- which is great news for its long term uses as an antibiotic treatment.
Benefits can be experienced as an antiviral for HIV/AIDS. Pneumonia, herpes, shingles and warts, reduce swelling, repair inflammation in the skin or body, kills staph aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections that could directly cause sinusitis and allergies.
Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnea, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic.
The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligaments. Here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result. They come on insidiously, lingering, but progress, sore feeling when coughing, Larynx feels sore and raw, easy expectoration – looking like boiled starch, weakness of chest, Cough from laughing. Hectic fever at noon, Severe backache, Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee. Legs weak and trembling, Polyuria, Crushed pain in testicles.
Ovaries feel too large. Bearing-down pain. Prolapse of womb. Eroded spongy cervix. Leucorrhea foul, excoriating. Palliative in scirrhous of uterus. Pain in left ovary. Climacteric hemorrhage. Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by jarring. Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs
It even hold/stops again viral strains of infection.
Symptoms worse from touch, toward noon. Better in open air; cough at night when lying down.
Compare: Selen; Alum; Platina; Stannum; Ampelopsis.
Dose: Minimum Sixth trituration, better higher potencies. Not too frequent repetition.
Arsenicum Album {Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS}:
Skin itching, burning, swellings; oedema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and
scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. Psoriasis. Scirrhous. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma of the skin. Gangrenous inflammations.
Face swollen, pale, yellow; Epithelioma of lips, tongue dry, clean, and red with stitching and burning pain.
Throat swollen, edematous, constricted, burning, unable to swallow. Diphtheritic membrane looks dry and wrinkled.
Long-lasting eructation. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia from slightest food or drink. Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco, Gnawing, burning pains in duodenum/abdomen – like coals of fire. Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus.
Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back. Expectoration scanty, frothy. Darting pain through upper third of right lung. Wheezing respiration. Hemoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry, as from Sulphur fumes; after drinking.
Pain and burning in back, Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet. Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene. Ulcers on heel (Cepa; Lamium). Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy.
Fever – High temperature. Periodicity marked with adynamic. Septic fevers. Intermittent. Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion. Hay-fever. Cold sweats. Typhoid, not too early; often after Rhus. Complete exhaustion. Delirium; worse after midnight. Great restlessness.
Dose – highest potencies yield brilliant results. Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin. But if only surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies, 2x to 3x trit. Repeated doses advisable.
ANTHRACINUM {Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS}:
This nosode has proven a great remedy in epidemic spleen diseases of domestic animals, and in septic
inflammation, carbuncles and malignant ulcers. In boils and boil-like eruptions, acne. Terrible burning. Induration of cellular tissue, abscess, bubo, and all inflammation of connective tissue in which there exists a purulent focus.
Tissues hemorrhages, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice. Glands swollen, cellular tissues edematous and indurated. Septicemia. Ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning. Erysipelas. Black and blue blisters. Dissecting wounds. Insect stings. Bad effects from inhaling foul odors. Gangrenous parotitis. Succession of boils. Gangrene. Foul secretions.
Relationship – Similar to Arsenic, which it often follows. Compare: Pyrogen; Lachesis; Crotalus; Hippozoen; Echinac; Silica follows well. In the treatment of carbuncles, remember the prescription of the prophet Isaiah for King Hezekiah’s carbuncle-i.e. the pulp of a fig placed on a poultice and apply.
Dose. – Thirtieth potency, better higher.
HIPPOZAENINUM {Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS} :
This powerful nosode, covers symptoms which suggest integral parts of consumption, cancer, syphilis, etc, and promises useful service in the treatment of ozaena, scrofulous swellings, pyemia, erysipelas. Chronic rhinitis; sinuous secretion.
Nose red, swollen. Catarrh, ozaena, ulceration. Discharge acrid, corroding, bloody, offensive. Tubercles on alae nasi. Papules and ulceration in frontal sinus and pharynx.
Face – all glands swollen; painful; form abscesses.
Respiratory – Hoarseness. Bronchial asthma. Noisy breathing; short, irregular. Cough, with dyspepsia. Excessive secretion. Suffocation imminent. Bronchitis in the aged, where suffocation from excessive secretion is imminent. Tuberculosis.
Skin – Lymphatic swellings. Articular non-fluctuating swellings. Nodules in arm. Malignant erysipelas. Pustules and abscesses. Ulcers. Rupia. Eczema.
Relationship – Compare: Muco-toxin (Cahis’ preparation with the micrococcus catarrhalis. Friedlander’s Bacillus of Pneumonia and the micrococcus tetra genius-for acute and chronic mucous catarrhs in children and old people); Aur; Kali bich; Psor; Bacill.
Dose – Thirtieth potency and higher.
ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA {Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS} :
Remarkable medicine as a “corrector of blood dyscrasia”. Acute autoinfection. Symptoms of blood poisoning, septic conditions generally. Diarrhea in typhoid. Gonorrhea. Boils. Erysipelas and foul
ulcers. Gangrene.
Goiter with exophthalmic symptoms; full doses, also injecting 5-10 drops into thyroid gland.
Tendency to malignancy in acute and subacute disorders. Last stages of cancer to ease pain. Venom infection. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Puerperal infections.
Tired feeling. Piles. Pustules. Acts on vermiform appendix thus has been used for appendicitis, but remember it promotes suppuration and a neglected appendicitis with pus formation would probably rupture sooner under its use in raw form.
Lymphatic inflammation; crushing injuries. Snake bites and bites and stings generally. Foul discharges with emaciation and great debility.
Head – Confused, depressed. Aches with a peculiar periodical flushing of the face, even to the neck; dizziness and profound prostration.
Nose – Foul-smelling discharge, membranous formations protruding. Post-nasal catarrh with ulceration and fetor. Nose feels stuffed up. Right nostril raw, bleeding.
Mouth – Canker; gums recede and bleed easily; corners of mouth and lips crack; tongue dry and swollen; sores; dirty brownish. Tongue, lips, and fauces tingle, with sense of fear about heart (Acon). White coating of tongue, with red edges. Promotes the flow of saliva.
Tonsil purple or black, gray exudation extending to posterior nares and air-passages. Ulcerated sore throat.
Sour belching and heartburn. Nausea; better lying down.
Chest pain as of a lump in chest and under sternum. Pain in pectoral muscles (Aristolochia).
Albuminous, scanty, frequent, and involuntary.
Female – Puerperal septicemia; discharges suppressed; abdomen sensitive and tympanitic; offensive, excoriating leucorrhea.
Extremities – Aching in limbs and general lassitude.
Skin – Recurring boils. Carbuncles. Irritations from insect bites and poisonous plants. Lymphatics enlarged. Old tibial ulcers. Gangrene.
Chilliness, with nausea. Cold flashes all over back. Malarial fever.
Relationship – Compare: Cenchris contortrix; Bothrops; Ars; Laches; Baptis; Rhus; Cistus; Hepar; Calendula.
Dose – Tincture, one to ten drops, every two hours, and higher doses.
Locally, as a cleansing and antiseptic wash.
LACHESIS MUTUS {Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS}:
Muscles too weak to maintain focus, Bleeding, nostrils sensitive. Coryza, preceded by headache. Hay
asthma; paroxysms of sneezing, Trifacial facial neuralgia.
Gums swollen, spongy, bleed. Tongue swollen, burns, trembles, red, dry and cracked at tip, catches on teeth. Aphthous and denuded spots with burning and rawness. Nauseous taste. Teeth ache, pain extends to ears. Pain in facial bones.
Throat sore, worse left side, swallowing liquids. Quinsy. Septic parotiditis. Dry, intensely swollen, externally and internally. Diphtheria; membrane dusky, blackish; pain aggravated by hot drinks; chronic sore throat, with much hawking; mucus sticks, and cannot be forced up or down. Very painful; worse slightest pressure, touch is even more annoying. In diphtheria, etc, the trouble began on the left side. Tonsils purplish.
Pit of stomach painful to touch, Liver region sensitive, cannot bear anything around waist, Abdomen tympanitic, sensitive, painful.
Female – Climacteric troubles, palpitation, flashes of heat, hemorrhages, pains all relieved by the flow, Mammae inflamed, bluish. Coccyx and sacrum pain, especially on rising from sitting posture.
Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down, particularly when anything is around throat, Cramp-like distress in precordial region. Cough; dry, suffocative fits, tickling. Little secretion and much sensitiveness; worse, pressure on larynx, after sleep, open air.
Neuralgia of coccyx, worse rising from sitting posture; must sit perfectly still. Pain in neck, worse cervical region.
Skin – Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance. Boils, carbuncles, ulcers, with bluish, purple surroundings. Dark blisters. Bed-sores, with black edges. Blue-black swellings. Pyemia; dissecting wounds. Purpura, with intense prostration. Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellulitis. Varicose ulcers.
Relationship. Antidotes: Ars; Merc; Heat; Alcohol; Salt.
Compare: Cotyledon (climacteric troubles); Nat m; Nit ac; Crotal; Amphisbaena -snake lizard (right jaw swollen and painful, lancinating pains; headaches, lancinating pains. Eruption of vesicles and pimples); Naja; Lepidium.
Dose – Eighth to 200th potency. Doses ought not be repeated too frequently. If well indicated, a single dose should be allowed to exhaust its action.
What Are the Complications of Brucellosis?
Severe brucellosis may cause:
- Infection of the central nervous system
- Endocarditis (infection of the lining of the heart or valves)
- Liver abscess
Brucellosis can cause long-lasting symptoms that are similar to systemic exertion intolerance disease. SEID is formerly known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
The symptoms can lead to disability. They may include:
- Fatigue.
- Fevers that come and go.
- Joint pain.
Brucellosis in a pregnant woman may lead to:
- Miscarriage.
- Birth defects in the baby.
Death from brucellosis is uncommon. Most brucellosis-related deaths are due to endocarditis.
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