WORLD ELEPHANTIASIS DAY - International Awareness Campaign - Primary and Pediatric Lymphoedema - Secondary Lymphoedema - Lymphatic Filariasis and Podoconiosis - Lymphatic Dysfunction - Rare Disease

This is a homage to those who suffered in the past, and are still suffering to this day with lymphatic edema. No matter what the cause or setting of lymphedema, be it due to filariasis (Lymphatic filariasis), Podoconiosis, Birth-Related Primary Lymphedema, or Secondary Lymphedema due to surgical interventions, traumas, etc, all need exactly the same treatment and compression garments to control the advance and progression of the disease. 

There is nowadays a good treatment option for lymphedema, and there is no justification, neither economic nor ethic-medical, for not treating patients. Read here for information on the best treatment for lymphedema.

 

The health care cost for treating lymphedema sums far less than many likewise chronic diseases that need everyday expensive drug treatments. In comparison, the yearly maintenance treatment expense for lymphedema generally consists of only 10 sessions of physiotherapy and 2 compression garments, with no other expense in costly drug treatments or regular clinical analysis. But even so, a good deal of national health systems worldwide prefer choosing the no-treatment or undertreatment option and investing little or nothing in lymphedema. Read here why the world is not treating a treatable disease like lymphedema.

So for the time being, globally we will still see Elephantiasis (Stage-III Lymphedema) around for more decades to come. The lack of conscience and economic and political health policies, of not investing in lymphedema treatment, is the number one plague of one of the world's most disfiguring and disabling diseases.

CLICK TO SEE THE VIDEO OF THE BEST TREATMENT OPTION FOR ELEPHANTIASIS-STAGE-4-LYMPHOEDEMA (NON-SURGICAL TREATMENT):

JOURNEE MONDIALE DE L’ELEPHANTIASIS, WELT-ELEFANTIASIS-TAG, , GIORNATA MONDIALE ELEFANTIASIS, WERELDOLIFANTIASISISDAG, DZIEŃ ŚWIATA ELEPHANTIASISIS, 世界淋巴日- 象皮肿, 世界のリンパ浮腫の日- 象皮病.

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