Worm infestation (helminthiasis) — diseases that cause the person to parasitic worms (intestinal worms, helminths) that live inside the body.
What is this?
Are currently known about 300 worm of a human disease. Your accepted split in intestinal and extraintestinal. As the name suggests, in the first case, the worms and larvae live in the gut, and in the second — outside-you: your muscles, lung, liver, and t. d. the Most common of diseases due to intestinal parasites are considered: enterobiasis and ascariasis.
Enterobiasis cause small parasitic worms — pinworms. In length they do not exceed 1 cm. one end of A worm is generally low, and the other rounded. The color of the worms can vary from white and yellowish to almost black. These worms take the nightlife: in the dark, the females crawl out the rectum, and from there to the skin around the anus to lay their eggs in the folds of the skin, and die.
The average life expectancy pinworms — a month and a half.
Ascaris cause the biggest hearts dolls. In length they can reach 20 cm. Parasitic roundworm mainly in the small intestine, so to detect them in calais is quite difficult. The life expectancy of guinea-worm — for several years.
The infection
Typically, infection with worms occurs through contaminated excreta to the soil. For example, if you do not wash your hands and brush your nails after work with the earth, there are dirty vegetables, fruits and berries. In addition, not less important: an infection by worms play a fly. They in their legs and the trunk of a move eggs from worms food. Also the infection by the worms as possible, and random intake of water to bathe in the water. Many times the children are infected by worms from pets.
What is happening?
In the body of an adult person uninvited guest waiting for triple protective barrier. The first enzymes in the oral cavity, the second — acidic environment of the stomach, the third — the local intestinal immunity. Unfortunately, relaxed body all of these obstacles may not work. Then the worms still fall in the intestine and develop to sexually mature specimens.
With time, the human body sent by the products of the life of a non-commercial. The patient increases the fatigue, worsens or, on the contrary, intensifies the appetite, appear headaches. Interrupted the working of the digestive system: stomach pain, diarrhea, constipation, and vomiting. You can receive the anal itching. The increased sensitivity to allergens, is also the result of the turbulent life of worms. The consequences can be very negative — from skin rashes to asthma. Another negative action to without-for — that compromise the immune system.
That manifests itself?
Signs of worm disease depend on the type and amount of worms, as well as the individual response of the organism in worms. The first symptoms of infection by worms: worsening appetite, appears vomiting, nausea, excessive salivation, Pristpoobshatsya abdominal pain. Constipation interspersed with diarrhea, evolving fast fatigue and weakness, disturbed sleep. On the occurrence of worm infections (pinworms), patients worried about itching in the area of the anus and perineum. Is reinforced it at night and at rest. Sometimes it is so strong that the patient wakes up.
What is dangerous?
With constipation, sharp abdominal pain and otdhavetAI should immediately consult your doctor. Such symptoms may indicate the problem of intestinal obstruction. When heavy helmintosah develop violation on the part of the nervous system: long headaches, dizziness, nervous tic. When Askaridoz due to the characteristics of the migration of the parasite in the body can occur such a symptom of the presence of worms as Pristhaveпообразный a bad cough. Often the signs of intestinal worms in humans are skin changes in the form of different rashes.
Diagnosis GliesetNoah infestations
When any suspicion of infection by worms, you should always consult a specialist and do not self-medicate. The diagnosis is confirmed common analysis of feces, eggs of intestinal worms. If the first analysis of the feces for the eggs of intestinal worms in humans are not discovered, but the probability of infection is high, tests repeat several times in a row.
How to treat worms
For the treatment of worms apply special medicines against intestinal worms. Selection of medicines against intestinal worms depends on a specific type of worms is detected in the patient. Your doctor will prescribe the pill, aiming at the elimination of the parasites. The treatment of worms is done in-house.
The criterion of cure are repeated negative results of stool examinations in humans in the eggs of intestinal worms.