Human helminths are the cause of various diseases. Medical statistics recorded 300 pathological conditions caused by parasites. A distinction must be made between the intestinal and extraintestinal nature of the origin of the infection:
- The larvae are located in the intestines.
- They are found in the lungs, kidneys, liver, brain and other organs.
Common types of helminths
Worms penetrate the bodies of adults and children. Infants are most commonly infected through contact with animals (stray cats, dogs), neglecting careful hand hygiene. Worms damage individual organs and lead to general deterioration in health. Spindleworms and fungal worms are common - round-shaped worms whose photographs can be found everywhere on the Internet. Popular tape types - tapeworms, tapeworms. An adult wide tapeworm reaches 9 meters. Its lifespan is 25 years.
A popular diagnosis in medical practice is enterobiasis - an intestinal infection caused by intestinal worms. Parasites are compact in size, rarely reach 1 cm in length, and pursue an active lifestyle at night for 1, 5-2 months. There is enough time for the needle worms to lay their eggs on the skin around the anus. The larvae contribute to the rapid development of the disease. After laying, needleworms die, but fertile offspring rapidly increase the population in the tissues of the human body.
The second popular diagnosis in medical practice is ascariasis. The disease is caused by large types of pathogens up to 20 cm in length. Spindleworms living in the small intestine are invisible to the eye. Roundworms are difficult to find in the stool. Their lifespan ranges from one year to several years.
Causes of infection with worms
What are the causes of the disease? What situations can become a platform for the development of dangerous infections? According to the analysis of the data, the experts identify the following factors:
- Biohelmentics (tapeworms) penetrate the body with meat dishes that have not undergone a thorough heat treatment. Cooking, frying and steaming meat is the best way to prevent infection. Raw beef is a medium for bovine tapeworms and swine tapeworms.
- Raw fish is an excellent breeding ground for broad-spectrum tapeworms and opisthorchosis. If food is cooked in the wrong temperature conditions and people eat it, the tapeworm penetrates the body, entrenched in the mucous membranes. For nature lovers, it is important to do not wash in water, do not wash food in rivers, or wash your hands in lakes without soap, because the water is often contaminated with harmful larvae.
- Cylindrical worms are found in the soil along with the feces of living things. You can easily pick up a dangerous pest by digging in the beds, groping the sand with your hands, and loosening the soil with your fingers. If you do not wash your hands thoroughly with soap at home, the disease is guaranteed.
- Home infection is likely to become an infection. The mode of transmission is touch and handshake. Barriers to transportation, handles in public places, wardrobe numbers, and seeds purchased from grandmothers in the bazaar are a breeding ground for infection. Money is considered particularly rich in maintaining infection. A paper bill goes a long way in a day, collecting pathogens and bacteria from dozens of dirty hands. Prevention instructions are always simple - wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water after coming home from the street and before every meal.
Flies, mosquitoes and other insects are dangerous. The winged insects place the eggs on their feet and noses and then place the larvae on the food. Insect bites also provoke disease. The most common type of transmission is animal hair. If you caress a puppy or cat on the street, there is a risk of catching an infection. A mushroom egg that has fallen off the fur of a domestic cat can save its life for about six months. A dangerous infection can easily attack a person for the first time and can spread freely through contact with infected objects.
The symptoms of a disease are difficult to detect immediately after it enters the body. In the initial stage, there are no signs of the disease. Parasites need to multiply. The decision to perform a special analysis does not immediately reach the carrier of the infection. Allergic reactions in the body and mild itching of the anus are rarely accompanied directly by helminthic invasions. If these symptoms are not eliminated for a long time, and antihistamines do not help to eliminate the undesirable consequences of the disease, laboratory analysis will determine the presence of worms in the body with great accuracy.
How the disease manifests itself
The presence of parasites in an adult's body leads to the following reactions:
- Allergic skin rash. The effectiveness of antihistamines in practice is not always confirmed in the presence of worms. From time to time, unreasonable eczema, hives, papillomas, pimples and boils appear on the body.
- Anemia - iron deficiency develops rapidly in the blood of an infected person. Worms pull out everything valuable from the host's blood, get rid of nutrients and substances.
- If you do not know how to get rid of a common cough, what to drink against an unpleasant phenomenon, if the best drug is helpless and does not work, you may soon need anti-worm pills. At the very least, it is worth checking this pathology and passing feces to the eggs if the obsessive cough persists for a long time.
- Inflammatory process. If you are suddenly attacked by any misfortune, including pneumonia, rhinitis, bronchitis, and similar illnesses, this should alert you and the other symptoms listed in this section.
- If you can’t go to the toilet at home without an enema, we have reason to be careful. It is possible that long worms accumulated in the feces block the passage of feces through the intestines. Another reaction is likely when the body itself is trying to get rid of the poisoning through diarrhea and diarrhea. Loose stools can last from a few days to a month. In this case, the stool is specifically mucous in nature.
- The long debate over whether a general decline in immunity is a hallmark of invasion has yet to find an exact answer to the question. But along with other symptoms, this factor has a legitimate raison d’être.
- You may not know what the disease looks like, but that doesn’t mean you managed to avoid the infection. Considering the recent increase in general nervousness, signs of bruxism (abnormal gnashing of teeth) in the dream, depressive states of the psyche, check for wormwood. It is possible that the analysis shows the presence of dangerous symptoms.
- Rapid weight loss is the result of the body losing nutrients.
- Feeling bloated, increased gas.
- Presence of white bubbles in the lobby of the mouth on the inside of the lips.
- When the tissues are traumatized, accompanied by the movement of the helminths, joint pains and discomfort occur in the work of the musculoskeletal system.
It is difficult to say how many of the above factors should be present. Don’t go to the doctor if you find multiple matches from a large list. However, if there are more than 5 of them and it is impossible to determine the real causes of the violations, you should be careful and consult a professional. The doctor is the one who can diagnose and determine how to remove the worms in a short time so that you can return to your normal lifestyle.
Symptoms of worms in children
It is not too difficult to identify whether children have worms. The presence of diseases such as opisthorchiasis, ascariasis or diphyllobothriasis can be determined by passing a special test. The following symptoms contribute to the diagnosis:
- Baby hyperactivity and excessive restlessness. He can't seem to sit still.
- Itching and burning in the anus. The baby has a hard time controlling himself, and the desire to scratch overrides the rules of decency introduced by his parents. Obsessive scratches are not hard to spot.
- Excessive salivation at night, during sleep and on waking.
- Considering that helminths actively absorb valuable substances and ingredients in the body, children have an uncontrollable craving for sweets. Children are asked to give them sweets and all sorts of delicacies to quell the "deficiency" in the body.
Reading the reviews on the net, one should pay attention to how parents capture a strange anomaly in their children’s behavior. Not all parasites are found in the structure of the stool. The worms are recognizable by the scaly skin of the eyelids, split ends, brittle marigold, drowsiness and lethargy, and a general decrease in immunity. Seek medical attention immediately after diagnosing three or more of the above symptoms. The specialist will perform the necessary tests and make an accurate diagnosis.
Helminthic invasion: complications of the disease
Worms devour everything that is valuable in us. By extracting vitamins and minerals, helminths deprive cells of normal function. During vital activity, parasites secrete antienzymes. This protects them from death in the human body. Due to the spread of toxic substances in the blood, the carrier exhibits bronchial asthma, dermatitis of varying severity, and other similar diseases.
White blood cell-eating helminths cause irreparable damage to the immune system, destroying it and destroying it. Lack of calcium, manganese, iodine, silicon and other important substances - all the consequences of the life of worms in our body. One of the most common defects that any carrier must face is dysbiosis. Destruction of the normal intestinal microflora is a normal condition in the presence of parasite invasion.
An interesting video seems to show how worms live and multiply in the human body. Passing along the mucous membranes with the help of suckers, spikes and hooks, they cause irreparable damage, pierce their surface and irritate nerve endings. This often leads to necrosis of the mucous membranes and the appearance of internal bleeding. Parasitic microorganisms can lead to irreparable consequences. These include toxocar-induced blindness, tapeworm-induced migraine, hypertension, and epilepsy.
But one of the worst consequences can be an infection of a pregnant woman with tapeworms. By penetrating the developing embryo, the parasites interfere with the development of the baby’s bronchopulmonary system, causing intrauterine growth retardation. Given that mothers are not allowed to take broad-spectrum antibiotics and that the list of drugs allowed is very limited, nematodes find a free environment to reproduce. When a child is born from an infected mother, its height and weight lag significantly behind those of a healthy baby.
Methods of diagnosing the disease
To make a diagnosis, you should contact the clinic in your place of residence or a pediatrician at any paid health care facility. After you have shown your doctor the symptoms that are bothering you, you will be given a referral for laboratory research. The diagnosis is confirmed by routine examination of the eggs of the worms, for which the faeces must be collected in a special container and the material taken for research. A situation is possible where the suspicion of parasites is high but the analysis does not give a positive result. In this case, the test may be duplicated several times in succession.
How to treat worms - A to Z.
There are several methods for treatment. Among them:
- drug therapy;
- proven folk remedies and recipes;
- special anthelmintic devices.
One thing is for sure - it is essential to get rid of the infection, otherwise the damage done cannot be compensated in any way. Your doctor will tell you which medicine to choose and which treatment option to prefer. Exposure methods should only be decided by a qualified professional. The information in this article is for guidance only. If you do not consult a professional, the cost of health can be too high and the time spent on self-medication can be incredibly expensive.
Stages of therapy
The question of how to treat it needs to be answered clearly - comprehensively. It is important to follow the order. Oils and sorbents are usually used in the first stage of purification. Folk recipes suggest starting with pumpkin (flaxseed) oil. Activated carbon or any other profile suspension with a similar spectrum of activity helps rid tissues of toxins. You can check with your nearest pharmacist for the names of existing medicines. It is well known that helminths do not tolerate bile, so it is recommended to use formulas that stimulate its production.
In the second stage, tablets are used, which are selected individually by the doctor. These are selected depending on the particular clinical picture.
Even though you can find almost any medicine in the pharmacy today, it is strongly contraindicated to prescribe it yourself. An incorrectly calculated dose and an incorrectly selected drug can cause irreparable damage to the functioning of major life systems, disrupting their normal functioning.
Enzymes, immunostimulants and vitamin-mineral complexes help stabilize impaired functions after treatment. If allergic reactions are observed, the use of antihistamine formulas is recommended.
Herbs, enemas and diet
Folk recipes recommend the best herbs to get rid of worms. Among them are centaury, birch buds, catnip, zhoster, elecampane. For adult patients, the tincture of wormwood, tansy and St. John’s wort is effective. In addition to using herbs, experts advise you to follow the principles of a healthy diet.
When using vaccines or strong medications, diet should be modified to get rid of spicy and salty foods, smoked and fatty foods. Emphasis should be placed on:
- dairy products;
- vegetarian diet;
- herbal ingredients;
- fruits and vegetables.
Experts advise eating nuts and garlic every day and drinking a tablespoon of castor oil on an empty stomach in the morning. It should be eaten in small portions, with a large number of approaches to the table (at least 5-6 times). Among the other procedures, enema with a soda solution (10 grams in 1 liter of warm water) and garlic milk at room temperature proved to be good.
Therapeutic devices
Specialty devices have appeared on the market relatively recently. Their principle of operation is based on the use of electromagnetic waves of a specified frequency. The most famous are the Zapper and Det devices. However, studies have shown that the effectiveness of the device is high only in adult worms. In addition, the effect of the devices has a negative effect on the blood cells, destroying their original structure. The use of tools can have a beneficial effect, but only if we apply the practice of an integrated approach.
In addition to the options listed, other technologies are known. Among them is the displacement of oxygen by parasites when their habitat dramatically changes their physicochemical data. The point is simple - on an empty stomach, a small tube is placed in the stomach to deliver oxygen under pressure in certain parts. Tissues and mucous membranes are saturated with oxygen, and worms leave the host due to unfavorable living conditions. The procedure has no side effects and is therefore recommended for both adults and children.
Ozone therapy is interesting. With the help of ozone-enriched solutions, microclusters, herbal teas and intravenous preparations are used. The essence of the method is similar to the previous one. Ozone, together 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. Particularly popular are bitter wormwood decoction, walnut leaves cooked in boiling water and fresh, fresh carrot juice. Folk healers use pomegranate peel tincture and birch bud extract. The simplest, but no less effective, method of therapy is pumpkin seeds. The delicious delicacy is incredibly effective. You should click on a healing drink 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 need to eat food on an empty stomach twice a day. Do not drink for several hours. Given the amber induced by herring, it is better to stay at home on the day you consume the product.