Noma

It’s a contagious illness known only from a few years. The bacterium attacks because of the antihigienic life of the undernourished children because of the low defences in their body’s and organisms caused by the insufficient diet.

This illness is very fast and cruel: it attacks the softer parts of the face, destroying the mouth, nose and sometimes the eyes.

The Noma mutilates the face of the child, it lives sometimes without the voice o even the possibility of chewing, producing finally a very big pain.

The smell of the sows and the look of them produces the loneliness and left over from the families, which means they’re left over to their own luck in the middle of nowhere, sometimes according to tribal superstition it’s a punishment from the devil.

Between the 70% and 90% of the affected which are without any kind of treatment die, according to the Mundial health organisation.

Even do, it is really an illness which is developed very quickly; the recuperation can be very quick to. That’s why it’s necessary the application of penicillin (its enough with one dose which price is of 2 euros), a sufficient diet and repairing (which price is of 6 euros month) and the continuity hygienic habits.

To the children who have really suffered the illness on their faces can be operated on and re do a big part through the modern plastic surgery.

A right diet and a good hygiene prevent the appearing of the illnes