Treatment regimens differ depending upon the form of the disease. There is a limited form of the disease called tuberculoid or paucibacillary and a more generalized form called lepromatous or multibacillary. The tuberculoid or paucibacillary form is not contagious. Your doctor can make the diagnosis by doing a test called a skin biopsy. The spouse is the least at risk familial member.
Clinicians now use fixed duration treatment.
Treatment will generally continue for 1 year for tuberculoid or paucibacillary disease and for 2 years for lepromatous or multibacillary disease. HD is not passed on from a mother to her unborn baby. You also do not get it through sexual contact. Because the bacteria like the cooler parts of the body, the skin and its nerves are affected. This can cause dryness and stiffness of the skin.