I do not know that the disease can be cured in the sense that you will never get it again it appears that if they are able to put your hypersensitive pneumonitis / aspergillus in remission that is the best that can be done if you are reintroduce to aspergillus your body May again take exception to it and produce inflammation which will need to be extinguished before your lungs are scarred.
Antifungal drugs and surgery can cure cases of acute invasive aspergillosis.
Chronic aspergillosis is mostly incurable - presumably because the immune system of patient cannot fully guard against infection and the antifungal medication is not fully able to kill the fungus. The infection can be held so it cannot go any further, it can't be eradicated.
There is one exception - a simple aspergilloma localised to a single lung lobe can sometimes be removed cleanly and cure is common. The difficulty is very few people fall into that category.
I've read that it can't be cured. But can be managed.
I'm not sure.
I believe you have to work on it, on many levels, on the physical body, emotionally, and spiritually.
Nothing is impossible
New treatments are coming out all the time. You can be cured of a mass or aspergilloma, but may still be left with ABPA, COPD or cavities making you more susceptible to fungal disease. Not sure it ever is truly cured.
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