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In particular, soil, decomposing organic substrates, compost piles, animal dung, rotting wood, and plant matter are sources of mucormycosis, which is brought on by fungus and molds of the order mucorales. This is readily apparent as a black growth on decaying fruits and crusty bread. Fungi have been on Earth for 400 million years and are essential for a healthy ecology. The nutrients trapped in the leaves and wood are recycled by fungi as they break down organic waste.
Fungi that are normally unharmful but that may penetrate tissues and profit from compromised immune systems. Because of this, diseases caused by black fungus are often known as opportunistic infections.
While fungus enters through the injured skin as a result of any form of skin injury to produce a skin infection, people get mucormycosis by breathing fungal spores from the air through the environment, which can also cause lungs, brain, or sinus infections.
Multiple organs and body components might be impacted by the mucormycosis illness. It may cause a blackening or darkening of the skin around the nose, double or blurred vision, chest discomfort, trouble breathing, and bloody coughing. The infection where the fungus is developing in the body determines the symptoms.
Symptoms of pulmonary mucormycosis (lung) –
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing; • Chest discomfort; • Fever (a fever of more than 100 °F); • Coughing up blood or other black liquids.
Symptoms of rhinocerebral mucormycosis (a disease of the nose and brain)
• Headache • Sinus or nasal congestion • One-sided facial edema • Black lesions on the upper interior of the mouth or on the bridge of the nose
Skin-related symptoms of cutaneous mucormycosis
Skin ulcers or skin infections in the air pockets behind our forehead, nose, cheeks, and in between our eyes and teeth. Infected skin region turning black. Warmth and excessive reddening. Swelling surrounding infection. Facial discomfort. A little bubble on the skin filled with serum.
signs of gastrointestinal mucormycosis
• Vomiting and nauseousness • Stomach or abdominal discomfort • Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
