Advertising reports that all people are infected with parasites and need treatment.But right?
Who are the parasites
The first thing you need to know: "Parasites" and "worms" are not one disease, but a large group of very different infections.There are several common features:
- All parasites are more or less adapted to life within a person.
- They do not bring use to a person, but they can cause significant damage.
If the advertisement says about the parasites in general, you can be sure: they want to fool you.
Speaking of the treatment or diagnosis of the parasites in general, without mentioning the type of infection, it is contrary to say, for example, about injuries, without specifying any issues.As for treatment and possible consequences, some parasitic infections differ from others, such as a light bulb.
What symptoms can cause parasites
Different parasitic infections are common in different countries.There are no accidental incidence statistics for many regions yet.However, it is impossible to talk about the epidemic: Not everyone is infected, according to ads, but only some.
About 15 parasitic infections are most often in Europe.
The most important thing is that you need to remember: different parasitic infections can cause different unspoken symptoms.This means that the same symptoms can cause many other causes.
Possible symptoms of the main parasitic infection can be briefly described as follows:
| Symptom | Infection |
| Dry cough | Ascariasis, toxocarosis, avilostomosis, current, echinococcosis. |
| Rash on the skin, similar to allergies | Such a symptom can be noticed when it is infected with all types of worms.If the rash is localized to a particular place (for example, on the leg), its cause can be of acylostomosis, wire, toxocarosis or Шистомозоза. |
| Itching in anus or genitals | Speakers |
| Fever, weakness, cold, strong abdominal pain | Lampathiz, desisthorchiasis, clonorcess, trichinology, Šistosomoza. |
| Long diarrhea (diarrhea) | Lambliosis |
| Long-travel abdominal pain | Ascaridosis, Ankilostomosis, infection with taper, diffylobotrioza, tricho-phalosis, current. |
| Strong muscle pain | Trichinology, echinococcosis |
| Visual violation | Perhaps with many infections, including toxocarosis, ascariasis, toxoplasmosis, fasciolosis. |
| Service under the skin | Fariolosis, Ascariasis, Pork infection, Ankilostomosis. |
| Bouts of epilepsy, breach of speech, walking or coordination of movement | Echinococosa, toxoplasmosis, toxocarosa, cystichoza (pork chain) |
| The occurrence of blood in urine | Shistosomosis |
| A choice of worms with feces | Akaridoza |
Advertising often connects many other symptoms with parasites: from poor appetite to hair loss.As a rule, it is only fiction of charlatan that exploit 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 crack the mechanisms of transmitting each infection.Just remember the general trails of the transfer and how to resist the infection.
1. There are unwashed products, drink dirty water
Many infections are transmitted through polluted products and water, including giardiasis, ascariasis, ethinococus, anchylopomosis.
How to protect yourself
- Wash vegetables and fruit thoroughly before meals.
- Wash your hands, especially after touch with the ground.
- Never drink water from unknown sources.
- Drink only water in the bottle during the trip (especially in developing countries).
2. There is raw or fish
This transmission time is characterized by tininosis (pork Tapeworm), trichinosis, dipylobotrioz, desisthorchiasis 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 the fish in a regular freezer at a temperature of -18 C it takes at least two weeks.But it will not kill especially persistent parasites, only industrial frost can destroy them.Therefore the fish you caught you need to be well cooked and frying: 20 minutes after boiling or heating.
3. Contact with an infected person
Such a mechanism is characteristic of Enterobio (Pinworms).Most often children are infected with this infection during games with peers in kindergarten or school.
Another infection that is transmitted from infected people is cysticism.
How to protect yourself
- Wash your hands before the meal.
- During your trip, don't eat raw food prepared by other people.For example, fruit peeled out of crust.
4. Contact with feces or fleas of infected animals
That is why they transmit dipilidosis, toxoplasmosis and other infections.
How to protect yourself
- Wash your hands after contact with animals or soil that could be infected with their feces.
- Periodically give animal antiparasic agents and use fleas regularly.
5. Contact with infected water and soil
Some parasites (for example, pathogenic scabbases or schistosomosis) can penetrate the body through the skin when you bathe or go barefoot to infected soil.
How to protect yourself
- While traveling into tropical countries, always wear shoes.
- Never swim in unknown fresh tanks that can be polluted with sewage.
How to realize that you have parasites
Analysis of blood or feces to identify "all parasites suddenly" do not exist.Parasitic infections The diagnostics algorithms are very different and always depend on:
- Which symptoms are concerned about the person.
- Which infection can infect based on the terms of his life.
If a person has a symptom, the doctor should turn off all possible causes before diagnosing the infection.
Should I drink antiparasis drugs for prevention
No, this is the wrong tactic.First, different parasitic infections are given to different treatment.
There is no magic pill that would face well with all kinds of parasites.
Second, in order to protect against the consequences of parasitic infections, it is much more important to prevent infection rather than often treated.
If a person is still addressing the source of the infection, the effect of treatment lasts only a few days or weeks.But if the contact stops, many parasites die without treatment.
Is it possible to treat folk drugs
The use of folk drugs to treat parasites is a bad idea.
Really effective folk drugs for parasites are not yet known.
In addition, many folk drugs have an unpleasant effect and cause parasite migration.And the latter is full of dangerous complications: intestinal obstruction, biliary tract block and so on.
What do you need to remember about parasitic infection
- Advertising of miraculous parasites - lies.
- If a person is worried about symptoms, you must pay attention to all possible reasons.
- The treatment should be focused against a particular infection.
- With many parasitic infections, prevention is much more important than treatment.The prevention is natural hygiene measures.