JABALPUR: In one of the first such cases in Jabalpur, a patient suffering from dengue has been diagnosed with mucormyosis or black fungus.
Doctors, however, call it a co-incident. They ruled out any co-relation between dengue and the black fungus infection.
The 40 year old patient is admitted in the ENT department of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College and Hospital, Jabalpur. He was brought to the hospital around a week ago. Sources said that the platelet count of the patient has improved but treatment of black fungus is going on.
Head of ENT department, Dr Kavita Sachdev, “It might be that the patient was suffering from mucormyosis and then got infected with dengue, he had taken over the counter medicines from shops before coming to the hospital for a few days and it could also be the fact that those medicines had steroids or other such drugs which led to increasing his blood sugar levels and leading to black fungus”.
“It is just a co-incident that he is having both the infections mucormyosis and dengue”, she added.
“I cannot say about any such case in the entire state but it is first and only such case in our hospital”, she said.
“I am not saying that dengue led to mucormyosis but it is a case of a patient that is infected with both the infections”, she added.
