Can doctors cure juju?

Most people say conventional doctors cannot treat ettalo. Ettalo is due to jumping charms and as such requires an African solution! Are there recent advances in medicine to treat this?

Mike Sserumaga

Dear Mike: The skin is the largest organ of the body and it helps protect the inside from among others, germ entry and body infection. Sometimes the skin gets breaches, some of which we can see with our naked eyes (wounds).
However, others can be too small to see (microscopic). And yet for germs which we cannot see are big enough areas of entry of billions of germs leading to infection of the skin and tissues immediately beneath in what is called cellulitis or locally ettalo.
Because of absence of a visible wound for germ entry in most cases, the route of infection seems bizarre and creates a notion of witchcraft.

The main bacteria responsible for the invasion are Streptococci and Staphylococci, with the latter being mostly resistant to many locally used penicillin antibiotics increasing the feeling that drugs given by conventional doctors cannot treat ettalo.
This infection spreads fast since the spaces under the skin are open and have little blood to bring in body soldiers (white blood cells) and equipment (antibodies) to fight the germs with the affected part getting swollen up and one developing a fever, chills, sweating, pain and enlarged lymph nodes.

Cellulitis may occur anywhere on the body, but the lower leg is the most common site of the infection given human survival activities like cultivation in the fields that risk the legs injuries. People with diabetes, HIV infection, obesity, the elderly and those with infections on the feet (athlete’s foot) or those prone to injuries to the feet like cultivators are likely to get cellulitis.
Since the belief that the problem is due to witchcraft can delay treatment increasing suffering, patients require visiting a health centre to avoid complications.