The advertising reports that all people are infected with parasites and need care.But is it so?
Which are parasites
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 features:
- 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 advertising says on parasites in general, you can be sure: they want to deceive yourself.
Talking about the treatment or diagnosis of parasites in general, without mentioning the type of infection, is as wrong as, for example, the lesions, without specifying which type of question.In terms of treatment and possible consequences, some parasitic infections differ from the others, such as a slight bruise from a fracture.
What symptoms can cause parasites
Several 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 a few.
In Europe, about 15 parasitic infections are more common.
The most important thing is that 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.
Possible symptoms of the main parasitic infections can be briefly described as follows:
| Symptom | Infection |
| Dry cough | Ascariasis, toxocarosis, anquilostomosis, strungyloidosis, echinococcosi. |
| A skin eruption on the skin, similar to allergies | This symptom can be observed when infected with all types of worms.If the rash is located in a specific place (for example, on the leg), its cause can be anquilostomosis, tightened, toxocarosis or schistosomosis. |
| Itching in the anus or genitals | Speakers |
| Fever, weakness, chills, severe abdominal pain | Lambiosis, Opishorchi, clonorcosis, tricinellosis, schistosomosis. |
| Long diarrhea (diarrhea) | Lambliosis |
| Long abdominal pains | Ascaridosis, ankilostomosis, Tori's tapeworm infection, dicillitriosis, trichocephaly, strungyidosis. |
| Strong pain in the muscles | Trichinellosis, echinococcosi |
| Visual violation | Perhaps with many infections, including closocarosis, ascariasis, toxoplasmosis, fasciolosis. |
| Service under the skin | Fasolosis, ascariasis, pork infection, ankilostomosis. |
| Epilepsy attacks, violation of speech, pace or coordination of movements | Echinococcosi, toxoplasmosis, toxocarosis, cysticchosis (pork chain) |
| The appearance of the blood in the urine | Shistosomosis |
| Selection of worms with feces | Acaridosis |
Advertising often connects many other symptoms with parasites: from scarce appetite to hair loss.As a rule, this is only a fiction of charlatans that 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, it is not necessary to cram the mechanisms of transmission of each infection.Just remember the general transmission courses and how to resist infection.
1. There are unreal products, drink dirty water
Many infections are transmitted through polluted soil products and water, including Giardiasis, Ascariasis, Echinococcosi, Insumer.
How to protect you
- Wash the vegetables and fruit carefully 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 path of transmission is characteristic of Tyniosis (pork tania), tricinellosis, dipillotriosis, opishorchies and other infections.
How to protect you
- Do not eat raw meat or fish or there is only the fact that veterinary control has passed.
- Cook with meat and fish carefully.
- Make the fish freeze in a normal freezer 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 took must be well boiled and fryable: 20 minutes after boiling or heated.
3. Contact with an infected person
This mechanism is characteristic of entertainment (Pinworms).Very often, children are infected with this infection during games with peers in kindergarten or school.
Another infection that is transmitted by infected people is cystiscosis.
How to protect you
- Wash your hands before meals.
- During the trip, do not eat raw foods prepared by other people.For example, the fruits detached themselves from the peel.
4. Contact with feces or fleas of infected animals
So Dipilidiosis transmitted, toxoplasmosis and other infections.
How to protect you
- Wash your hands after contact with animals or ground that could be infected with their stool.
- Periodically, an antiparasitic animal and use fleas regularly.
5. Contact with infected water and soil
Some parasites (for example, the pathogens of earth scabies or schistosomosis) can penetrate the body through the skin when you bathe or go barefoot on the infected soil.
How to protect you
- While traveling in tropical countries, he always wears shoes.
- Never swim in fresh unknown basins that can be polluted by the waste water.
How to understand that you have parasites
There is no blood or feces analysis to identify "all parasites simultaneously".The diagnostic algorithms of parasitic infections are very different and always depend on:
- What symptoms are worried about a person.
- Which infection can be infected according to the conditions of his life.
If a person has a symptom, the doctor should exclude all possible causes before diagnosing the infection.
I have to drink dislike drugs for prevention
No, they are wrong tactics.First, several parasitic infections are administered to a different treatment.
There is no magic pill that would have faced all types of parasites well.
Secondly, to protect from the consequences of parasitic infections, it is much more important to prevent infection and not often treated.
If a person continues to contact the source of infection, the effect of the 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 popular remedies
The use of popular remedies for the treatment of parasites is a bad idea.
The really effective popular remedies for parasites are not yet known.
In addition, many popular remedies have an annoying effect and cause the migration of parasites.And the latter is fraught with dangerous complications: intestinal obstruction, blocking of the biliary tract and so on.
What you need to remember on parasitic infections
- Advertising of miraculous means from parasites - lies.
- If a person is worried about a symptom, it is necessary 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 the treatment.And prevention is elementary hygiene measures.