Advertising reports that all people are infected with parasites and need treatment.But is it like that?
Parasitic
The first thing you need to know: "parasites" and "worms" is not a disease, but a large group of very different infections.There are few common resources:
- All parasites are more or less adapted to life within a person.
- They do not bring benefits to a person, but can cause significant damage.
If the ad tells about parasites in general, you can 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 as wrong as saying, for example, about injury, without specifying what kind of question.In terms of treatment and possible consequences, some parasitic infections differ from others, such as a mild bruise of a fracture.
What symptoms can cause parasites
Different parasitic infections are common in different countries.For many regions, there are no exact statistics on the incidence yet.However, it is impossible to talk about the epidemic: not all people are infected, according to advertising, but only a few.
In Europe, about 15 parasitic infections are more common.
Most importantly, you need to remember: different parasitic infections can cause different non -specific symptoms.This means that the same symptoms can be caused by many other causes.
The possible symptoms of the main parasitic infections can be described briefly as follows:
| Symptom | Infection |
| Dry cough | Ascariasis, toxocarosis, ankylossis, structuring, echinococosis. |
| A skin rash, similar to allergies | This symptom can be observed when infected with all types of worms.If the rash is located in a specific location (for example, leg), its cause may be ankylosiathosis, rope, toxocarose or schistosomiasis. |
| Itching in anus or genitals | High |
| Fever, weakness, chills, intense abdominal pain | Lambiosis, opistchiasis, clonorcosis, trichnelosis, schistosomiasis. |
| Long diarrhea (diarrhea) | Lampbliosis |
| Long abdominal pain and lashes | Ascaridosis, ankylosomosis, bull tape infection, difficulty, tricocefalose, structuring. |
| Intense pain in the muscles | Tricelelosis, echinococosis |
| Visual violation | Perhaps with many infections, including toxocarose, ascariase, toxoplasmosis, fasciolosis. |
| Skin service | Fasciolosis, Ascariase, Pork Infection, Anchyllasthosis. |
| Graces of epilepsy, speech violation, march or coordination of movements | Echinococcosis, toxoplasmosis, toxocarose, cystycchosis (pork chain) |
| The appearance of blood in the urine | Shistosomiasis |
| Selection of worms with stool | Adhesive |
Advertising usually connects many other symptoms to parasites: from bad appetite to hair loss.As a 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 be infected
To reduce the risk of infection, you do not need to pile the transmission mechanisms of each infection.It is enough to remember the general paths of transmission and how to resist the infection.
1. There are uninsy products, drink dirty water
Many infections are transmitted through polluted soil products and water, including giardiasis, ascariasis, echinocosis, ankylosomosis.
How to protect yourself
- Wash the 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 are raw or fish
This path of transmission is characteristic of tiniosis (pork tapeworm), tricelelosis, diolobotrosis, opistchiasis 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.
- Carefully cook meat and fish.
- Freeze fish in a freezer common at a temperature of -18 ° C needs at least two weeks.But this will not kill particularly persistent parasites, only industrial frost can destroy them.Therefore, the fish you have taken must be well boiled and frying: 20 minutes after boiling or heating.
3. Contact with an infected person
This mechanism is characteristic of enterobiosis (Pinworms).Most of the time, children are infected with this infection during games with colleagues in kindergarten or school.
Another transmitted infection of infected people is cystiscose.
How to protect yourself
- Wash your hands before meals.
- During the trip, do not eat raw foods prepared by other people.For example, peeled fruits from the shell.
4. Contact with feces or fleas of infected animals
Thus they convey diplidiosis, toxoplasmosis and other infections.
How to protect yourself
- Wash your hands after contact with animals or soil that can be infected with your feces.
- Periodically give animal antiparasitic agents and regularly use fleas.
5. Contact with infected water and soil
Some parasites (for example, scabies or schistosomiasis pathogens) may penetrate the body through the skin when you bathe or get barefoot on infected soil.
How to protect yourself
- While traveling to tropical countries, always wear shoes.
- Never swim in unknown fresh reservoirs that can be polluted by sewage.
How to understand that you have parasites
Blood analysis or feces to identify "all parasites at the same time" do not exist.Diagnostic algorithms of parasitic infections are very different and always depends on:
- What symptoms are concerned with a person.
- What infection can be infected based on the conditions of your life.
If a person has a symptom, the doctor should exclude all possible causes before diagnosing the infection.
I need to drink antiparasitic drugs for prevention
No, this is wrong tactic.First, different parasitic infections are given to different treatment.
There is no magic pill that would have dealt well with all types of parasites.
Secondly, to protect against the consequences of parasitic infections, it is much more important to prevent infection and not frequently 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.
It is possible to be treated with folk remedies
Using popular remedies for parasitic treatment is a bad idea.
Really effective popular remedies 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 hazardous complications: intestinal obstruction, biliary tract block and so on.
What do you need to remember about parasitic infections
- Advertising of miraculous means of parasites - lies.
- If a person is concerned about a symptom, you need to pay attention to all possible reasons.
- Treatment should be directed against a specific infection.
- With many parasitic infections, prevention is much more important than treatment.And prevention is elementary hygiene measures.