Advertising reports that all people are infected with parasites and need treatment.But so?
They are parasites
The first thing to know: "parasites" and "worms" is not a disease, but a large group of very different infections.There are few common characteristics:
- All parasites are more or less adapted to life within a person.
- They do not provide benefits to a person, but they can cause significant damage.
If the announcement says about parasites in general, it may be sure: they want to deceive it.
Talking about the treatment or diagnosis of parasites in general, not to mention the type of infection, is so incorrect as to say, for example, about injuries, without specifying what kind of question.In terms of treatment and possible consequences, some parasitic infections differ from others, such as a bruise of light from a fracture.
What symptoms can cause parasites
Different parasitic infections are common in different countries.For many regions, there are still no exact statistics on the incidence.However, it is impossible to talk about the epidemic: not all people are infected, according to advertising, but only some.
In Europe, about 15 parasitic infections are more common.
The most important thing is to remember: different parasitic infections can cause different non -specific symptoms.This means that the same symptoms can be caused by many other causes.
Possible symptoms of the main parasitic infections can be briefly described as follows:
| Symptom | Infection |
| Hacking cough | Ascariasis, toxocarosis, anylostomosis, strungyloidosis, equinoxis. |
| An eruption in the skin, similar to allergies | Such a symptom can be seen when infected with all kinds of worms.If the eruption is located in a specific place (for example, in the leg), its cause can be anylostomosis, rope, toxocarosis or schistosomosis. |
| Itching in the anus or genitals | Speakers |
| Fever, weakness, chills, severe abdominal pain | Lambiosis, opistorchiasis, clonorchosis, tricinelosis, schistosomosis. |
| Long diarrhea (diarrhea) | Lambliosis |
| Long abdominal pains | Ascaridosis, anylostomosis, bull tapeorm infection, dihyllobotriosis, trichocephalyosis, strungyidosis. |
| Severe pain in the muscles | Tricinelosis, equinoxis |
| Visual violation | Perhaps with many infections, including toxocarosis, ascariasis, toxoplasmosis, fasciolosis. |
| Service under the skin | Fasciolosis, ascariasis, pork infection, ankyostomosis. |
| Episodes of epilepsy, rape of speech, march or movement coordination | Echinococosis, toxoplasmosis, toxocarosis, albicidosis (pig chain) |
| The appearance of blood in the urine | Shistosomosis |
| SELECTION OF GASES WITH STAKES | HOLDER |
Advertising often connects many other symptoms with parasites: from evil appetite to hair loss.As a general rule, this is just a fiction of charlatans who exploit the fear of patients and their ignorance in this very complex area of medicine.
How to infect
To reduce the risk of infection, you do not need to put the mechanisms of transmitting each infection.It is enough to remember the general transmission routes and how to resist the infection.
1. There are unwashed products, drink dirty water
Many infections are transmitted through contaminated products of soil and water, including giardiasis, ascariasis, echinococosis, anquilostomosis.
How to protect yourself
- Wash vegetables and fruits well before meals.
- Wash your hands, especially after contact with the ground.
- Never drink water from unknown sources.
- During the trip (especially in developing countries), drink only bottled water.
2. There is raw or fish
This transmission route is characteristic of tiniosis (had pork), trricinelosis, dipilobotriosis, opistorchiasis and other infections.
How to protect yourself
- Do not eat raw meat or fish or there is only the fact that veterinary control has passed.
- Cook with meat and fish.
- Free fish in an ordinary freezer at a temperature of -18 C needs at least two weeks.But this will not kill particularly persistent parasites, only industrial frosts can destroy them.Therefore, the fish you caught must be well boiled and fry: 20 minutes after boiling or heat.
3. Contact an infected person
Such mechanism is characteristic of enterobiosis (Pin worms).Most of the time, children are infected with this infection during games with colleagues in the kindergarten or school.
Another infection that is transmitted to infected people is cystiscosis.
How to protect yourself
- Wash your hands before meals.
- During the trip, it does not eat raw food prepared by other people.For example, fruits took off from the shell.
4. Contact with stool or fleas of infected animals
Thus it transmitted dipilidiosis, toxoplasmosis and other infections.
How to protect yourself
- Wash your hands after contact with animals or soil that can infect your feces.
- Periodically gives an animal antiparasitic agents and regularly uses fleas.
5. Contact with infected water and soil
Some parasites (for example, pathogens of earth scabies or schistosomosis) can penetrate the body through the skin when it bathes or comes out barefoot on infected soils.
How to protect yourself
- While traveling to tropical countries, always wear shoes.
- Never swim in unknown fresh reservoirs that can be contaminated by wastewater.
How to understand that you have parasites
The analysis of blood or feces to identify "all parasites at the same time" does not exist.The diagnostic algorithms of parasitic infections are very different and always depends on:
- What symptoms are concerned about a person.
- What infection can be infected according to the conditions of your life.
If a person has a symptom, the doctor must exclude all possible causes before diagnosing the infection.
Do I need to drink antiparasitic drugs for prevention?
No, this is an incorrect tactic.First, different parasitic infections are administered to a different treatment.
There is no magic pill that had done well with all kinds of parasites.
Secondly, to protect against the consequences of parasitic infections, it is much more important to prevent infection and is not often treated.
If a person continues to contact the source of infection, the effect of treatment persists only a few days or weeks.But if the contact stops, many parasites die without treatment.
Is it possible to be treated with popular remedies?
Using popular remedies to treat parasites is a bad idea.
Popular remedies really effective for parasites are not yet known.
In addition, many popular remedies have an annoying effect and cause parasites migration.And the latter is full of dangerous complications: intestinal obstruction, biliary tract block, etc.
What you need to remember about parasitic infections
- Miraculous media advertising - lies.
- If a person is concerned about a symptom, he must pay attention to all possible reasons.
- The treatment must be directed against a specific infection.
- With many parasitic infections, prevention is much more important than treatment.And prevention are elementary hygiene measures.