Can Leptospirosis Be Treated Without Any Kind of Medication?

Abstract

Huang WL

Introduction: Leptospirosis is an acute infectious disease caused by pathogenic Leptospira. Spread in a variety of ways, though the digestive tract infection is the main route of infection. As the disease pathogen final position in the kidney, the urine has an important role in the proliferation of the disease spreading [1].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to show if leptospirosis can be treated without any kind of medication.

The methodology used was the presentation of one case report of a woman presenting three days of generalized pain all over her body, especially in her muscles, mainly the calves of her legs, fever, headache and trembling. A blood exam was asked, as well as serology and acupuncture to relieve her symptoms.

Findings: she recovered very well after five sessions of Acupuncture once a day. A month later, she came back with the results of her serology: it was positive leptospirosis.

Conclusion: In this case, leptospirosis was cured without the use any kind of medication, being acupuncture a good therapeutic option, reducing the necessity of the patient’s admittance into a hospital, minimizing the costs of the treatmentand restoring the patient to a normal life very quickly

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