Helminths that grow on a person are the cause of various diseases. Medical statistics have recorded 300 pathological conditions caused by parasites. Distinguish between the nature of the intestine and the outside of the intestine from the origin of the infection:
- The larvae are located in the intestine.
- They are found in the lungs, kidneys, liver, brain and other organs.
Common types of helminths
Worms penetrate the bodies of adults and children. Babies are most often infected through contact with animals (feral cats, dogs), neglecting careful hand hygiene. Worms damage individual organs and lead to a general deterioration in health. Roundworms and pinworms are considered common - round -shaped worms, pictures of which can be found everywhere on the Internet. Popular types of tapeworm - tapeworm, tapeworm. Adult tapeworms reach 9 meters in width. Its lifespan is 25 years.
In medical practice, a popular diagnosis is enterobiasis - an intestinal infection caused by cream worms. Parasites are compact in size, they rarely reach a length of 1 cm, lead an active lifestyle at night for 1. 5-2 months. There is ample time for the cream worms to lay eggs on the skin around the anus. Larvae contribute to the rapid development of the disease. After laying eggs, cream worms die, but fertile offspring rapidly increase the population in human body tissues.
The second popular diagnosis in medical practice is ascariasis. The disease is caused by a large type of pathogen, reaching a length of 20 cm. Living in the small intestine, the roundworm is invisible to the naked eye. It’s hard to find ringworms in feces. Their life span is from one to several years.
Causes of worm infections
What is the cause of the disease? What situations are the platform for the development of dangerous infections? According to data analysis, experts identify the following factors:
- Biohelminths (tapeworms) penetrate the body with meat dishes that have not undergone thorough heat treatment. The best pollution prevention is by boiling, frying, and steaming meat for food. Raw beef is a breeding ground for cow tapeworms, pigs - pig tapeworms.
- Raw fish is an excellent breeding ground for tapeworms and widespread opisthorchosis. If a dish is cooked under conditions of insufficient temperature, and people eat it, the tapeworm penetrates the body, fixing itself in the mucous tissue. An important rule for those who like to go to nature is that you can not wash dishes in the body of water, it is forbidden to wash food in the river, rinse your hands without soap in the lake, because the water is often contaminated with harmful larvae.
- Ringworms are found in the soil along with the feces of living beings. Digging in the beds, peddling sand with your hands, loosening the soil with your fingers, you can easily pick up harmful pests. If you do not wash your hands at home with soap thoroughly, the disease is guaranteed.
- Domestic infections are a possible option for getting an infection. The method of transmission is through contact and shaking hands. Handhelds in transport, door knobs in public places, wardrobe numbers and seeds purchased at the bazaar from grandmothers became breeding grounds for infection. Money is considered very rich in the maintenance of infection. In a day, a piece of paper travels a long way, collecting germs and bacteria from dozens of dirty hands. Prevention instructions are always simple - you need to wash your hands with soap and water thoroughly after coming home from the street and before every meal.
Flies, midges and other insects are considered dangerous. Winged insects transfer eggs on their legs and proboscis, after which they lay the larvae on food. Insect bites also cause disease. The most common type of infection is animal hair. By petting a puppy or cat on the street, you run the risk of getting an infection. The eggs of pinworms that have fallen from the fur of domestic kittens can sustain their life for about six months. A dangerous infection easily attacks a person at the first opportunity, spread freely through contact with an infected object.
It is difficult to detect the symptoms of the disease immediately after it enters the body. In the early stages, there are no signs of the disease. Parasites need to multiply. The decision to take a special analysis does not come to the carrier of the infection immediately. Allergic reactions in the body and slight itching in the anus are rarely directly associated with helminthic invasion. If these symptoms are not eliminated for a long time, and no antihistamines help eliminate the unwanted consequences of the disease, laboratory analysis with a high degree of accuracy determines the presence of worms in the body.
How the disease is real
The presence of parasites in the body of adults leads to the manifestation of the following reactions:
- Allergic skin rash. The effectiveness of antihistamine drugs is not always confirmed in practice in the presence of worms. From time to time, unreasonable eczema, urticaria spots, papillomas, pimples and boils appear on the body.
- Anemia - iron deficiency develops rapidly in the blood of an infected person. Pulling out all that is valuable from the host's blood, the worms consume it, getting rid of nutrients and substances.
- If you do not know how to get rid of a frequent cough, what to drink against the unpleasant phenomenon, if the best pharmaceutical drugs are not powerful and do not give any results, you may soon need a pill for worms. At the very least, it is worth checking for this pathology and throwing feces for eggs when the obsessive cough persists for a long time.
- The inflammatory process. If you are suddenly attacked by all sorts of misfortunes, including pneumonia, rhinitis, bronchitis and similar diseases, this should alert you, along with the other symptoms listed in this section.
- If at home without an enema you can not go to the toilet, there is reason to be careful. It is possible that long worms that have accumulated in the stool are blocking the passage of stool through the intestines. Other reactions are also possible, when the body itself tries to get rid of intoxication with the help of diarrhea and diarrhea. Loose stools can last from a few days to a month. In this case, the stool has a clear slimy character.
- The long debate over whether a general decline in immunity can be considered a feature of aggression has not yet found an accurate answer to that question. But, along with other symptoms, this factor has a legitimate right to exist.
- You may not know what the disease looks like, but this does not mean you have managed to avoid infection. Noticing the recently increased general restlessness, signs of bruxism (pathology of grinding teeth) that have appeared in dreams, a state of mental depression, check for worm eggs. It is possible that the analysis will indicate the presence of dangerous symptoms.
- Rapid weight loss is thought to be a result of the loss of nutrients to the body.
- Flatulence, increased gas formation.
- The presence of white bubbles in the anterior chamber of the mouth, on the inside of the lips.
- When tissue trauma, which is accompanied by the movement of helminths, articular pain, discomfort in the work of the musculoskeletal system appear.
How many symptoms are supposed to be from the above factors is hard to say. You shouldn’t go to the doctor when you’ve found some matches from a huge list. However, if you have more than 5 of them, and it is impossible to establish the real reason for the manifestation of the violation, there is reason to be careful and visit a specialist. It is the doctor who can diagnose and determine how to get rid of the worms in a short time, so that you can return to your normal way of life.
Symptoms of worms in children
It is not too difficult to identify if a child has worms. The presence of diseases such as opisthorchiasis, ascariasis or diphyllobothriasis can be determined by passing special tests. The following symptoms contribute to the diagnosis:
- Hyperactivity and excessive restlessness of the baby. Looks like he can't sit still.
- Itching and burning in the anus. It is difficult for the baby to control himself, and the desire to scratch overrides the rules of decency imposed by the parents. Obsessive scratching is not hard to notice.
- Excessive salivation at night, during sleep and while waking up.
- Since helminths actively absorb valuable substances and components in the body, an uncontrollable craving for sweets arouses in children. Children are asked to give them sweets and all kinds of delicacies to drown out the "deficiencies" that form in the body.
Reading reviews on the internet, you pay attention to how parents record strange anomalies in their children’s behavior. Not in all cases can parasites be found in the structure of feces. Worms can be identified by flaky skin on the eyelids, branched hair tips, brittle marigold, drowsiness and lethargy, with a general decrease in immunity. After diagnosing three or more of the signs mentioned above, you should immediately see a doctor. The specialist will conduct the necessary research and make an accurate diagnosis.
Helminthic invasion: complications of the disease
Worms eat everything that is precious in us. By absorbing vitamins and minerals, helminths eliminate the ability of cells to function normally. In the process of vital activity, parasites secrete antienzymes. This protects them from death in the human body. Due to the spread of toxic substances in the blood, carriers show bronchial asthma, dermatitis of varying severity and other similar diseases.
Eating white blood cells, helminths cause irreparable harm to the immune system, destroying and destroying it. Lack of calcium, manganese, iodine, silicon and other essential substances - all this is a consequence of the life of worms in our body. One of the most common failures faced by every carrier is dysbiosis. Destruction of the normal intestinal microflora is a normal condition in the presence of parasitic invasion.
An interesting video seems to show how worms live and reproduce in the human body. Moving along the mucous membrane with the help of suckers, spikes and hooks, they cause irreparable harm, piercing its surface, irritating nerve endings. This often leads to necrotization of the mucous membranes and the appearance of internal bleeding. Parasitic microorganisms can lead to irreversible consequences. Among them are blindness due to toxocars, migraines triggered by ringworms, high blood pressure and epilepsy.
But one of the most horrific consequences can be an infection of a pregnant woman with ringworm. Penetrating into the developing embryo, the parasite causes disturbances in the formation of the infant's bronchopulmonary system, stunted intrauterine growth. Since mothers cannot take broad -spectrum antibiotics, and the list of approved drugs is very limited, ringworms seek an independent environment for reproduction. When a child is born from an infected mother, his or her height and weight lag far behind the indicators of a healthy baby.
Methods for diagnosing disease
To make a diagnosis, you will need to contact the clinic at your place of residence or a pediatrician at any paid medical institution. After presenting your bothering symptoms to your doctor, you will receive a referral for laboratory research. The diagnosis is confirmed by routine testing for worm eggs, for which it is necessary to collect feces in special containers and bring the material for research. The situation is possible when the suspicion of the parasite is high, but the analysis does not give a positive result. In this case, the study can be duplicated several times in a row.
Methods of treating worms - from A to Z
There are many methods for treatment. Among them:
- drug therapy;
- time-tested folk remedies and recipes;
- special antihelminthic devices.
One thing is for sure - it is important to get rid of the infection, otherwise the harm caused can not be compensated in any way. The doctor will tell you which medication to choose, and which treatment options to prioritize. Only a qualified specialist can decide on the method of exposure. The information in this article is for guidance only. If you don’t consult a professional, the price of health can be too high, and the time lost for self -treatment can be very costly.
Therapeutic rating
The question of how to be treated must have a vague answer - comprehensively. It is important to follow the sequence. In the first stage of purification, it is customary to use oils and sorbents. Folk recipes suggest starting with pumpkin oil (flaxseed). Activated carbon or any other profile suspension with a similar spectrum of action will help get rid of tissue toxins. You can find out the name of an existing drug from your pharmacist by contacting your nearest pharmacy. It is known that helminths can not tolerate bile, so it is recommended to use a formula that stimulates its production.
In the second stage, pills are used, selected individually by the doctor. They are selected depending on the specific clinical picture.
Despite the fact that today in pharmacies you can find almost all drugs, it is strongly discouraged to prescribe them yourself. Improperly calculated doses and incorrectly selected medications can cause irreparable harm to the work of the major systems of life, disrupting its normal functioning.
Enzymes, immunostimulatory agents and vitamin-mineral complexes will help stabilize impaired function after treatment. If an allergic reaction is observed, the use of an antihistamine formula is recommended.
Herbal medicine, enemas and diet
Folk recipes recommend the best herbs to get rid of worms. Among them are centaury, birch buds, valerian root, zhoster, elecampane. For adult patients, tincture of wormwood, tansy and St. John's wort. John's wort is effective. In addition to using herbs, experts advise to adhere to the principles of a healthy diet.
For the period of vaccination or the use of strong drugs, it is necessary to adjust the diet, get rid of spicy and salty foods, smoked and fatty foods. Emphasis should be given to:
- dairy product;
- vegetarian diet;
- herbal ingredients;
- fruits and vegetables.
Experts advise to eat nuts and garlic every day, drink a tablespoon of castor oil on an empty stomach in the morning. You should eat in small fraction portions with a large number of approaches to the table (at least 5-6 times). Of the additional procedures, an enema with a soda solution (10 grams per 1 liter of warm water), as well as room temperature milk infused with garlic, proved to be good.
Therapeutic devices
Special devices have appeared on the market quite recently. The principle of their operation is based on the use of electromagnetic waves of a certain frequency. The most famous are the Zapper and Det devices. However, studies conducted show that the effectiveness of the effect of the equipment is high only on adult worms. In addition, the action of the device has a negative effect on blood cells, destroying their original structure. The use of equipment can have a good effect, but only if the practice of an integrated approach is applied.
In addition to the options listed, other technologies are known. Among them, the oxygen expulsion of parasites, when their habitat dramatically changes its physicochemical data. The bottom line is simple - on an empty stomach, a small tube is inserted into the stomach, delivering oxygen under pressure in a specific part. Tissues and mucous membranes are saturated with oxygen, and helminths leave the host due to unfavorable living conditions. This procedure has no side effects, so it is recommended for both adults and children.
Ozone therapy is interesting. With the help of ozone -enriched solutions, microclysters, herbal teas, and intravenous preparations are used. The essence of the method is similar to the previous one. Ozone, along with oxygen, blocks the respiration of parasites. As a result, they are forced to leave the body of the carrier of the infection.
Traditional methods and recipes
Almost all folk recipes are taken orally in the morning on an empty stomach. Especially popular are a decoction of bitter wormwood, walnut leaves boiled in boiling water, and fresh carrot juice. Folk healers use pomegranate skin color and birch bud extract. The simplest, but no less effective method of therapy is pumpkin seeds. Delicious dishes are very effective. It is necessary to click the healing ingredient three times a day, at least 100-150 grams in one approach.
Another traditional remedy is herring with onion rings dipped in vegetable oil and lemon juice. But you should eat the dish on an empty stomach twice a day. You should not drink it for several hours. Given the amber emitted herring, it is better to stay home on the day of intake of the product.