| KALA-AZAR OR VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS |
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What are Signs & Symptoms of Kala-Azar?
- Recurrent fever intermittent or remittent with often double rise
- loss of appetite, pallor and weight loss with progressive emaciation
- weakness
- Splenomegaly – spleen enlarges rapidly to massive enlargement, usually soft and nontender
- Liver – enlargement not to the extent of spleen, soft, smooth surface, sharp edge
- Lymphadenopathy – not very common in India
- Skin – dry, thin and scaly and hair may be lost. Light coloured persons show grayish discolouration of the skin of hands, feet, abdomen and face which gives the Indian name Kala-azar meaning “Black fever”
- Anaemia – develops rapidly
Anaemia with emaciation and gross splenomegaly produces a typical appearance of the patients
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