Talk:Elephantiasis

message: If i get the chance to research a bit more about this i'll try to add to the article. As for now i haven't got a lot of time and would like to note that it would be nice to know what the victims of Elephantiatis go through. Is it painful (It looks like it!)? Do symptoms appear quickly or is it a sudden inflamation? Specifics like that. i'll see what i can do but if someone else gets a chance at it before me go for it, as i will probably not be able to for a month or so. fjgndy 20:54, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: If

message: We have a Rdr from 'Elephantitis', but no mention of this term being dominant (see 2 uses by different contributors above on this page) in non-specialist usage. I may not get it right in this first try, but i'm adding language to the lead 'graph.--Jerzy•t 09:55, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Useless comment: I misremember it as "Elephantesiasis." Hooray. -71.28.203.206 (talk) 07:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elephantiasis, not "Elephantitis" 

message: In the more recent versions, someone has put in a reference to using cannabis and an unhealthy diet as a possible cause.
this of course is complete crap and is total vandalism.
I'd change it and find out who did it originally, but my paper's tomorrow and I really can't spare the time right now.
Someone else wanna do it?
Squiggle (talk) 15:36, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elephantiasis and Cannabis 

message: Dont worry if your parents have elephantiasas dont be worried about getting it. Just dont get stung by a certain mosquito.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.226.146.61 (talk) 21:13, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elaphantiasas isnt hereditary  

message: Elephantiasis is a result of lymphatic filariasis, but lymphatic filariasis need not lead to elephantiasis.  They are related, but separate and should be discussed on different pages.  Certainly eliminate redundancies on the two pages by putting the information on the right page (i.e., don't discuss elephantiasis in depth on the filariasis page), but a merge is not valid here. This has been discussed at least since January on the filariasis page, and so far, there is consensus.  If that is the case, then perhaps it is time to remove the suggestion from the top of the page? Mba123 (talk) 17:13, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't merge 

message: there isn't much about symptoms in here, other than the swelling that is, anyone have any information?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.177.16.242 (talk) 17:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Not much info about symptoms

message: *Pictures of persons afflicted with some disease should protect the identity of the subject -- eyes should be covered and preferrably, crop out what is not essential to the description of the disease. For instance, the main picture can simply zone in on the lower limbs; the man with a scrotal inflammation can be cropped too or at least should have the face covered -- let us respect their privacy or their memory. Galyet (talk) 23:38, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Identity of persons in medical images

message: The article describes different potential treatments, but I don't see any explanation of the prognosis. Is antibiotic treatment effective in reversing the symptoms, or just in halting progression of the disease? Can people with the condition ever look normal again?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ubruni (talk • contribs) 23:18, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prognosis 

message: I don't suppose anyone knows of a list of doctors in the US (NYC specifically) that have experience with this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.44.171 (talk) 19:40, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Doctors 

message: I'm no doctor but it seems to me that some mention should be made to a "POSSIBLE" secondary condition resulting from Elephantiasis. When obese people develop folds of flesh, the affected lymph often cannot drain as well (if at all?). FYI various types of tape are being used to reposition the folds of flesh to improve the lymph drainage.  Additionally, the reason I found my way to this "talk" page was lack of a prognosis as someone stated above.Path11path (talk) 12:26, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resulting, Secondary Ailments 

message: While trying to fix the many links to this page, it became clear that "elephantiasis" is used in a much broader way than is allowed in any of the single articles listed here. This should be what it once apparently was: a general article about the overall idea of the enlargement of limbs and other body parts due to disease. Many, many problems can result in this condition, not just the ones with the word "elephantiasis" in their names. - Gorthian (talk) 23:49, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The difficulty with the previous version was that it sort of mixed everything up. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 15:34, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't want the original article restored necessarily--it just needs to be an article. You've made a good stub-start; I hope someone with some medical knowledge (and time)  can sort it all out and expand it. Thanks! - Gorthian (talk) 05:42, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I hadn't checked the old version before; now I can see what you mean. I was speaking originally from the viewpoint of a disambiguator--it was simply not possible to fix incoming links by retargeting them to specific articles indicated on the dab page. What became clear to me was that elephantiasis was referred to most often as a symptom, not as a specific disease. The article could be about the symptom, with a short paragraph about each potential cause/disease and a link to the "main article" for that disease. - Gorthian (talk) 06:02, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes sounds reasonable. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 12:52, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs to be its own article 

message: How do we set up treatment for this disease?  Shendice17 (talk) 17:02, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, elephantiasis is a feature of multiple discrete conditions/disorders. Hence, treatment is dependent upon the underlying cause. It makes more sense to cover treatments on the seperate articles for the causative conditions individually. Trying to cover/summarise everything in this article would likely result in an incoherent hodgepodge. -J Jay Hodec (talk) 18:14, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment