Advertising reports that all people with parasites are infected and have to be treated.But is it that way?
Who are parasites
The first thing you need to know: "parasites" and "worms" are not a disease, but a large group of very different infections.There are only a few common features:
- All parasites are more or less adapted to life within a person.
- They do not bring any advantages for one person, but can cause considerable damage.
If the advertising about parasites generally says, you can be sure: you want to deceive you.
If you talk about the treatment or diagnosis of parasites in general without mentioning the type of infection, this is just as wrong as to say about injuries without determining what kind of question.With regard to the treatment and possible consequences, some parasitic infections differ from others, such as a light blood cast from a fracture.
What symptoms can cause parasites
Various parasitic infections are common in different countries.For many regions, there are no precise statistics about the incidence.However, it is impossible to talk about the epidemic: Not all people are infected according to advertising, but only a few.
Around 15 parasitic infections are most common in Europe.
The most important thing is that you have 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 most important parasitic infections can be described briefly as follows:
| symptom | infection |
| Dry cough | Ascariasis, toxocarosis, Anquilostomosis, Strungyloidosis, Echinococcosis. |
| A rash on the skin, similar to allergies | Such a symptom can be observed if they are infected with all types of worms.If the rash is located in a certain place (e.g. on the leg), its cause can be ancilostomosis, string dose, toxocarosis or reedosomosis. |
| Itching in anus or genitals | speaker |
| Fever, weakness, chills, severe abdominal pain | Lambiosis, opisthorchiasis, clone orchosis, trichinellosis, schistosomosis. |
| Long diarrhea (diarrhea) | Lambiosis |
| Long -straining abdominal pain | Ascaridose, ankylosity, infection with bull brandy, diphyllobotriosis, trichocephalose, string gyidosis. |
| Severe pain in the muscles | Trichinellosis, echinococcosis |
| Visual injury | Maybe with lots of infections, including toxocarosis, ascariasis, toxoplasmosis, fasciolosis. |
| Service under the skin | Fasciolosis, ascariasis, pork infection, ankylosityomosis. |
| Epilepsy attacks, violation of language, gait or coordination of movements | Echinococcosis, toxoplasmosis, toxocarosis, cystycche (pork chain) |
| The appearance of blood in the urine | Shistosomosis |
| Selection of worms with feces | Acaridosis |
Advertising often combines many other symptoms with parasites: from bad appetite to hair loss.As a rule, this is just a fiction of charlatans that take advantage of the fear of patients and their ignorance in this very complex area of medicine.
How to get infected
In order to reduce the risk of infection, you do not have to decide on the mechanisms for the transfer of any infection.It is sufficient to remember the general transmission paths and to oppose the infection.
1. There are unwashed products, drink dirty water
Many infections are transmitted by dirty soil products and water, including giardiasis, ascariasis, echinococcosis and ankyl rustomosis.
How you can protect yourself
- Wash the vegetables and fruit thoroughly in front of meals.
- Wash your hands, especially after contact with the floor.
- Never drink water from unknown sources.
- While traveling (especially in developing countries) you only drink water in bottles.
2. There is raw or fish
This transmission path is characteristic of tyniasis (pork tapeworm), trichinellosis, dipillobotriosis, opisthorchiasis and other infections.
How you can protect yourself
- Do not eat raw meat or fish or there is only the fact that veterinary control has passed.
- Cook the meat and fish carefully.
- Freezing fish in an ordinary freezer at a temperature of -18 ° C at least two weeks.However, this will not kill particularly persistent parasites, but only industrial frost can destroy.Therefore, the fish you have caught yourself must cook well and fry: 20 minutes after cooking or heating.
3 .. Contact with an infected person
Such a mechanism is characteristic of enterobiosis (pinworm).In most cases, children are infected with colleagues in kindergarten or at school during games with this infection.
Another infection that is transmitted by infected people is the cystic.
How you can protect yourself
- Wash your hands before meals.
- Do not eat raw food during the trip that are prepared by other people.For example, fruits that are peeled out of the shell.
4. Contact with faeces or fleas of infected animals
Dipylidiosis, toxoplasmosis and other infections transmitted in this way.
How you can protect yourself
- Wash your hands after contact with animals or soil that could be infected with your feces.
- Submit an animal anti -parasitic agent regularly and use fleas regularly.
5. Contact with infected water and soil
Some parasites (e.g. pathogens of earth scabies or schistosomosis) can penetrate the body through the skin if they bathe or go barefoot on infected soil.
How you can protect yourself
- Always wear shoes on traveling to tropical countries.
- Never swim in unknown fresh reservoirs that can be dirty by waste water.
How to understand that they have parasites
Analysis of blood or feces to identify "all parasites at the same time" does not exist.Parasitic infection diagnostic algorithms are very different and always depend on it:
- Which symptoms are concerned about a person.
- Which infection can be infected based on the conditions of his life.
If a person has a symptom, the doctor should exclude all possible causes before diagnosing the infection.
Do I have to drink anti -parasitic medication for prevention?
No, this is wrong tactics.First, different parasitic infections of different treatment are given.
There is no magical pill that would have been well completed with all types of parasites.
Second, it is much more important to protect the consequences of parasitic infections to prevent infection and not often treat.
If a person continues to contact the source of infection, the effect of the treatment remains only a few days or weeks.But when the contact stops, many parasites die without treatment.
Is it possible to be treated with folk remedies?
The use of folk remedies for the treatment of parasites is a bad idea.
Really effective folk remedies for parasites are not yet known.
In addition, many folk remedies have an annoying effect and cause the migration of parasites.And the latter is full of dangerous complications: intestinal engineering, blockade of the bile tract and so on.
What you have to remind parasitic infections
- Advertising of miraculous means from parasites - lies.
- If a person is concerned about a symptom, you have to pay attention to all possible reasons.
- Treatment should be directed against a specific infection.
- In many parasitic infections, prevention is much more important than treatment.And prevention are elementary hygiene measures.