Naegleria Virus or Naegleria fowleri or Brain eating disease is an amoeba that lives throughout the world in warm and shallow bodies of freshwater (lakes, rivers and hot springs). It also lives in soil. It’s considered a free-living organism because it doesn’t need a host to live. It is confirmed that Naegleria fowleri infections is more common throughout the world because of climate change.

Way of infection is through mouth, nose and eyes. Incubation period is almost fifteen (15) days, but the first symptoms usually start about 5 days after infection, but they can start within 1 to 12 days.

People who become infected by this amoeba develop a condition called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). PAM is a very serious infection of the central nervous system.

Symptoms of Naegleria Virus 

The early symptoms of Naegleria virus are similar to those caused by other more common illnesses, such as bacterial meningitis or primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) come on suddenly and are severe at the start, including:

• High fever.
• Very painful headache.
• Nausea and vomiting.
• Trembling.
• Symptoms like those of meningitis, including a stiff neck and extreme sensitivity to light (photophobia).
• Mental confusion.
• Lack of attention to people and surroundings, seizures, hallucinations, and coma.

The infection destroys brain tissue, causing brain swelling and death. The fatality rate is more than 97% with allopathic treatment, and almost 35% with Homeopathic treatment.

Diagnosis

To confirm the infection of brain-eating amoeba (Naegleria virus or  fowleri), recommend a spinal tap — also known as lumbar puncture — to see if the organism is in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

A doctor may also recommend a brain biopsy, to check for the presence of the amoeba.

Allopathic treatment for Naegleria virus

The treatment of choice for primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), or infection with brain-eating amoeba (Naegleria fowleri) is the antifungal amphotericin B.

Some survivors are treated with a combination of drugs that included amphotericin B, rifampin, fluconazole and a drug called miltefosine. Miltefosine is a drug approved for treating leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that’s spread by sandflies.

Currently, PAM is treated with a combination of drugs, often including amphotericin B, azithromycin, fluconazole, rifampin, miltefosine, and dexamethasone. Miltefosine is the newest of these drugs.

During treatment, I (Dr Qaisar Ahmed) will not recommend cooling the body to below-normal temperature, because temperature means body’s fight against the infection; cooling the body will slowdowns the T-cells activity and body’s fight against infection.

Prognosis with allopathic treatment

The outlook for someone who is infected with Naegleria fowleri is very poor with allopathic treatment. Even with treatment, most people die. Coma followed by death usually happens in a week or 10 days after symptoms and signs begin.

Homeopathic treatment for Naegleria virus

If carefully diagnosed, the Homeopathic treatment and prognosis is more than 80% success in all types of serebrospinal infections including meningitis.

Mezereum

Mezereum is a well known antiviral and antibiotic in Homeopathic medicines. Main symptoms for Naegleria virus are : Contraction of tendons. Very violent neuralgic pains. Ear infections; Hardness of hearing. Eye infections; Myopia, or presbyopia. Sparks before eyes. Obstinate twitching of the muscles of lids. Pupils contracted. Sensitive to air. Haematuria. Herpes zoster. Impetigo. Irritation. Neuralgia. Osteoma. Stupefying confusion. Vertigo. Headache, with shuddering and shivering; Violent headache and great sensitiveness to least contact after a slight anger. Staring at one spot. Diminution of smell. Tongue swollen, protruding. Constriction and contraction of pharynx. Nausea with shuddering and trembling of whole body. Violent vomitings of greenish and bitter mucus, accompanied by headache. Bloody vomiting. Desire to draw a long breath, desire to draw a long breath. Pulse intermittent; full, tense, hard. Chilliness, shiverings, and coldness of whole body, with violent thirst, and sometimes without a desire for warmth. Chill predominates even in warm room. Chill with thirst and desire for heat.

Veratrum viride

Intense cerebral congestion, rapid pulse, tendency to convulsion, followed by prostration. Elliot considers Veratrum viride in the lower potencies our best remedy in acute meningitis. Coldness of the surface loss of consciousness, dilated pupils, labored, slow, irregular pulse. Pallor with syncope. Tremor. Spasm with violent shrieks; opisthodomos; face dark blue; breath suspended, Pneumonia; Nervous attack with shaking trembling and chilliness; Convulsions. Chorea, movements continuing in sleep, hemorrhage from various organs, crept up arms and legs, Irritative fever with cerebral congestion. Streptococcus fever (Meningitis); rapid and violent alternations of temperature. Ephemeral fevers with nausea and retching. Cerebrospinal fever.

Belladonna

Naegleria virus or fowleri. Simple meningitis, Corresponds to the initial stages, intense heat of the body, strong pulse, bright red face and delirium, where the cerebral irritation is marked by intense pain in the head, starting out of sleep crying out, grinding teeth, stupefaction, vanishing of sight, Stupor and loss of consciousness, muscular palpitations and shocks of the tendons, convulsive fits, with cries, and loss of consciousness, Attacks of tetanus, pulsation of the carotids, sweat of an empyreumatic smell and imparts a yellow color to the sheets.

Variolinum

Delirium. Vertigo. Syncope in attempting to rise. Intolerable pain in occiput. Crazy feeling through brain. Ophthalmia with loss of sight. Pupils contracted. Deafness. Pharynx and fauces deep purplish crimson, with gangrenous appearance; breath horribly offensive. Painful deglutition. Severe pain in praecordial region, frequent nausea and vomiting of bilious and bloody matter. Oppressed respiration. Stiffness of neck, with tense drawing in muscles. Intolerable aching in lumbar and sacral region. Intense fever, commencing with chills. Very profuse, bad-smelling sweat.

Rhus Tox

Rhus Tox offers a treatment for serebrospinal infections, meningitis etc with pain and stiffness of muscles and joints. This is accompanied with marked anxiety and restlessness. High fever and pain in the head are present, that extends to the ears. Rash on the body is also present. Vesicular erysipelas, Acne rosacea.

Medorrhinum

Vertigo. Frontal headache with nausea. Pain in centre of brain. Terrible pains circling through head and around crown with swelling of cords of neck, spasms of neck muscles, notably sterno-mastoid. Blur vision. Hallucination. Nausea, vomiting thick mucus and bile. Epileptiform spasms. Opisthotonos. Risus sardonicus. Collapse. Creepy chills running down back and all over body in a zigzag course. Great tendency to sweat on exertion; sensitive to cold. Profuse sweat about neck. Night-sweats.

Helleborus Niger

Produces a condition of sensorial depression. Sees, hears, tastes imperfectly, and general muscular weakness, which may go on to complete paralysis, accompanied by dropsical effusions, fixedness of look on one single point, Inflammation of the brain, with stupefaction, Hydrocephalus with stupefaction, Painful sensitiveness of the exterior of the head extending from nape to vertex. Naegleria fowleri.

Pulse, small, slow, almost imperceptible Sinking sensation. Slow in answering. Thoughtless; staring. Involuntary sighing. Complete unconsciousness. Picks lips and clothes. Forehead wrinkled in folds. Cold sweat. Stupefying headache. Rolls head day and night; moaning, sudden screams. Bores head into pillow; beats it with hands. Dull pain in occiput, with sensation of water swashing inside. Headache culminates in vomiting. Eyeballs turn upwards; squinting, vacant look. Pupils dilated. Eyes wide open, sunken. Suppressed; scanty, dark; coffee-grounds sediment. Frequent urging. Child cannot urinate. Bladder overdistended. General shivering, with corrugated skin, and tenderness of the scalp when touched, and on moving the head.

Arsenicum Album

Yellow fever. Intermittent fever. Traumatic fever. Typhus. Ulcers. Vomiting. Neuralgia. Melancholia. Delirium tremens. Abscess. Head heaviness, sensation of weakness and confusion. Vomiting when raising up the head. Excessive swelling of the head and face. Edematous, painless swellings of the neck and of the lower jaw. Eyes inflamed and red, with redness of the conjunctiva, or of the sclerotica, and injection of the veins of the conjunctiva. Swelling of the eyes. Inflammatory or oedematous swelling of the eyelids. Pupils contracted. Yellowish colour of the sclerotica. Ears squeezing, sharp pains, shootings, voluptuous tickling and burning in the ears, tinnitus. Violent vomiting. Urine retention. Brody cardiya. Constant drowsiness. Night temperature, with chillness.

Kali Bromatum

General paralysis, severe headache. The headache is constant along with a feeling of heat in the head. The pulse is rapid and wiry. Dullness and weakness along with a loss of appetite is also present. Locomotor ataxia. Unconscious of what is occurring around them; cannot recognize, nor be comforted by, their friends, writing almost unintelligible from omission of words or parts of words,  perception slow, answers slow, Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania, precede brain and paralytic symptoms. Delirium, with delusions. Cerebral infections.

Bryonia

Suits well cerebral effusions with a benumbed sensorium. Over-sensitiveness of the senses. Constant chewing motion with the mouth; when moved screams with pain; Rheumatic and gouty pains; child stupid, abdomen distended; tongue white, pains are most sharp and stitching, and the patient drinks greedily; there is a livid flushed face, high temperature, copious sweats. paralytic weakness. Torpor and numbness of the limbs, with stiffness and pain of fatigue. Red, shining swelling of some parts of the body. Inflammation of the inner parts especially the brain. Skin moist and clammy, Burning and pricking over the whole body, erysipelatous inflammation, knots and blotches, Furfuraceous titters, with burning itching. Petechiae. Putrid ulcers

Stramonium

Chorea. Delirium tremens. Diaphragmatic. Ecstasy. Enuresis. Epilepsy. Erotomania. Eyes, affections of. Headache, pain in head and nausea predominates in cases of meningitis. Hydrophobia. Hysteria. Lochia, offensive. Locomotor ataxia. Mania. Meningitis, irritability with screaming, striking with hand feet, and a tendency to strike/bite. Convulsive movement of the limbs. Opisthodomos the body is bent backwards with distorted countenance, attacks of cataleptic stiffness. Spasmodic, drawing, paralytic pains in muscles, Involuntary motions; hydrophobia, Convulsive movements and jerks, Puerperal convulsions.-Syncope, with stertorous breathing. Unconscious snoring; jaws hang down; hands and feet twitch; pupils dilated. Trembling of limbs.

Apis mellifica

Tubercular meningitis; there are shrill cries, stabbing pains ; the child puts its hand to its head and screams. There is an oedematous face, scanty urine, thirst less, Impaired memory. Absent-minded. Cannot concentrate thought. Indifference. Torpor and apathy. Constantly whining. Screaming, sudden outcry during sleep. Busy, restless.

Giddiness: when sitting, standing, lying, when closing the eyes; with nausea and headache, Pressing pain in forehead and temples, Sudden stabbing and stinging pains, Hydrocephalus; scalp very sensitive; copious sweat of head; child lies in torpor, delirium interrupted by shrill cries, boring head deep in pillow, rolls it from side to side.

Arnica Montana

Great sensitiveness of the mind with anxiety and restlessness, traumatic meningitis that follows a head injury like a concussion, falling, blows, or bruising, headache and vomiting, Foolish gaiety, levity, and mischievousness. Absence of ideas. Giddiness, with nausea; when moving and rising. Pain, as if a nail were driven into the brain. Stitches in the head, heat and burning in the head. Rheumatic and arthritic pains. Stiffness of the limbs after exertion. Muscular jerking. Stiffness and weariness of all the limbs. Sensation of agitation and trembling in the body, as if all the vessels were throbbing. Extreme sensibility of the whole body, chiefly of the joints and of the skin. Bleeding of internal and external parts, Ebullition of the blood, and congestion in the head, with heat and burning in the upper parts of the body; and cold, or coolness, in the lower parts. Fainting fits, with loss of consciousness, in consequence of mechanical injuries. Convulsions, traumatic trismus and tetanus. General prostration of strength. Paralytic state in consequence of apoplexy. Dropsy of inner parts.

Cicuta virosa

Congestion of the brain with vomiting and purging, general convulsions, twitching in fingers and unconsciousness. The head is spasmodically drawn back with stiff neck. Violent jerks in any part of the body. Strangles on drinking, dilated pupils and staring look, trismus. Attacks of semi-lateral cephalalgia, with nausea. Semi-lateral headache, as from congestion to the head. Compression from both sides of the head. Stupefying pressure on the forehead. Affections of the brain, from concussion of the brain. Starting and spasmodic shocks in the head with drawing backward (head inclines forward; is frequently bent back again).

Zincum metallicum

Chorea. Heaviness, lassitude, and excessive weakness of tubercular constitution and due to suppressed eruptions. Febrile disturbance is absent or slight, twitching jerkings and hyperaesthesia of all the senses and skin, and tremulousness of the feet. At the beginning there are sharp lancinating pains and great exhaustion of nerve force, backache and spinal irritation, brain affections of children, delirium as if frightened, Child repeats everything said to, automatic movements of mouth, arms, and hands, and general restlessness. Pain, which sometimes seems to be between the skin and the flesh. Formication on the skin

Gelsemium

Meningitis in the initial stage, along with severe chills, stiffness of the neck. A headache with a sensation of band tightly binding head, great exhaustion and intense drowsiness. There is a desire to lie still. Vertigo along with a staggering gait may also appear. Jerking of the body, especially of the left side. Staggering as if intoxicated when trying to move, by sudden movement of the head, and walking.-Giddiness as if intoxicated, as if he should fall down. Dizziness and blurred vision. Giddiness with loss of sight, chilliness, accelerated pulse, dullness of vision, double vision. Neuralgic headache, beginning in upper cervical spine; vertebra prominens sensitive; numbness of occipital region; pains extend over head, causing a bursting pain in forehead and eyeball, heaviness of the head, relieved by profuse micturition. pain in the neck, pulsation of the carotid arteries, pain in the limbs great drowsiness, sneezing, double vision, loss of sight. Sensation of contraction of the skin in the middle of the forehead. Itching on the head (face, neck, shoulders).

Sulphur

Tubercular meningitis; the child lies in a stupor with cold sweat on forehead , jerking of limbs, spasms and suppressed urine. Constant heat on top of head. Heaviness and fullness, pressure in temples. Beating headache; worse, stooping, and with vertigo. Sick headache recurring periodically. Tinea capitis, dry form. Scalp dry, falling of hair; worse, washing. Itching; scratching causes burning. violent convulsions, thumbs clenched,loud screaming,face pale with blue lips. No remedy equals it in these conditions, but it is of more use in the later stages.

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