WORMS - Parasites that live on the body (most often in the gut) of humans and animals.You can be infected everywhere: according to doctors, about 80% of people are infected with helminths.
To effectively treat worms in adults, drugs must be selected by considering the type of parasite that lives in the body.Otherwise, treatment will be ineffective and may impair the patient's health.
Where and how can you be infected with worms?
You can get the infection everywhere: in nature, a catering establishment and even at home.Helimentes are transmitted through uninsy hands, vegetables and poorly washed fruits, especially those that grow on the floor.
Meat and fish that have undergone insufficient heat treatment can also cause infection.
Helminthosis is transmitted from a sick person to a healthy person - through a handshake or contact with saliva.More often, worms are found in children: they are infected through ordinary toys, uninsy hands.
If the family has a child with helminthiasis, all adults also need to prevent prevention so as not to become a source of re -infection for the child after recovery.
You can be infected with a pet.Therefore, cats and dogs is required regularly - every three months.And after contact with animals without -teto, wash your hands well.
Symptoms that indicate the presence of parasites
Signs of the presence of worms in the intestine are a marked change in body weight (weight loss or weight gain due to metabolic disorders), disorders in the digestive system, which are easy to confuse with an acute or chronic gastrointestinal disease.The main signs that indicate that a person has a helm tentn invasion:
- Feces Disorder - Diarrhea, Constipation, Liquid Fools (when the intestine is emptied no more than 2 times a day, but the chair is not decorated).
- Swelling, colic.
- Nausea.
- Vomit.
- Lack of appetite.
- Pain and spasms in the gut.
In the process of vital activity, worms distinguish toxins that can affect people differently.In some, they cause frequent headaches, in others - irritability or disorder of food behavior, for third skin rashes, all types of allergies.
In any case, at the bottom of the helm tentn invasions, body protection functions are reduced, immunity weakens.It is more likely that this person suffers colds.
Worms: What species parasitating in humans?
Not all types of helminths are dangerous to humans: some of the parasites live only in animal organisms.
About 70 types of helminths are parasitized into people, which are divided into three main groups:
Round worms
A few centimeters are reached in length, in the cross section that your body has a round shape.This is one of the most common types of helminths.The Nematod group includes worms and ascarids, which are usually diagnosed, especially in children.This also includes the blazoles.They live mainly in the gut.
Tape
The length can reach 18 m, the average length is 1-5 m.The body is flat, there is a glass of suction in the head, which is attached to the intestinal mucosa.They are tapes and tapeworms that are mainly in the small intestine, but can also settle in other organs.Its characteristic characteristic: helminth, not a larva itself, falls into the human body: mature in the body of an intermediate host.They are infected with animals as well as when they use meat and fish that have undergone insufficient heat treatment.
Flat
They have a broad and flat body, reach a few centimeters long, less frequently - one and a half meters.These are various types of bias, bicomer, trematod.They can establish themselves in the ducts (tear channels and in almost any organs).
How to determine the presence of Helminthies?
The easiest way is to pass the analysis of stool.But for accurate diagnoses, you need to do an analysis 3-4 times, because for a time when parasites are not active, it is very difficult to detect your presence.
Antibodies are produced for some types of helminths in the blood.In the blood test, you can determine the presence of these markers and establish the type of worms.But for that, you will have to do some tests - for every expected look.
Who treats Helminthias?
The main helminth specialists are a specialist in infectious diseases for parasitologists.But the full -time parasitologist is far from all clinics: these specialists usually work as regional clinics and research institutes.
A specialist in infectious or gastroenterologists based on test results can prescribe a treatment regime.This will help you choose the best anti -miles and safe media for a person who will help to quickly drive worms with no consequences for the body.
Self -mate in this case is quite dangerous: the worms are quite toxic, have many against -indications.If the choice of the type of worms, the drug will be at least ineffective.If the dosage is exceeded, AnthelMintics may cause severe poisoning.