Professor of medicine and incharge ICU, Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College, Dr Aarti Lalchandani said at the press conference on Monday that rheumatic fever proves fatal for pregnant women and children.

Rheumatic fever is widely spread in the industrial city and city doctor has worked comprehensively on this disease and got the break at the World Conference of Cardiology, 2010, in Beijing, China to present her research paper on rheumatic fever and rheumatic arthritis.

Lalchandani comments that if Lala Lajpat Rai (LLR) Hospital's outdoor patients' ward (OPD) is visited by around 1000 people then out of these 1000 people, it is expected that approx 10 people suffer from streptococcal infections which cause rheumatic fever.

Describing the symptoms of the disease she said that when an infected person passed strain of bacterium streptococcus to another person, initially it results in an infection in the throat which will last for one week and afterwards it results in the inflammation and swelling in knee and ankle joints.

Further she told that female kids are more prone to these diseases and Kids in the age group of 5 -15 yrs got easily trapped by this disease. Above and beyond heart disorders escorts inflammation in joints and it also leads to the death of the mother and child.

It was discovered that penicillin injections given for the treatment by general practitioners should be avoided because it can prove fatal for life.

She has done her research on rheumatic fever for a length of 10 yrs and established that instead of penicillin, azithryomycin tablets should be given for the treatment of this disease and instead of aspirin, aceclofenac should be given.

During the rheumatic fever, Azithryomycin is more effective in controlling the auto-immunity reaction of the bacteria affecting the joints. She also recommend people to maintain cleanliness around their surroundings and follow strict hygiene practices in overcrowded places to consume eatables because the causative bacterium enters the body through either food or drink.