Advertising reports that everyone is infected with parasites and need treatment.But is that?
Which are parasites
The first thing you need to know: "parasites" and "towards" is not a disease, but a large group of very different infections.There are few common characteristics:
- All parasites are more or less suited to life in a person.
- They do not bring any advantages to a person, but can cause significant damage.
If advertising talks about parasites in general, you can be sure: they want to be wrong.
Talking about the treatment or diagnosis of parasites in general, without mentioning the type of infection, is as wrong as to say, for example, injuries, without specifying what type of question.In terms of treatment and possible consequences, certain parasitic infections differ from others, such as a light bruise of a fracture.
What symptoms can cause parasites
Different parasitic infections are common in different countries.For many regions, there are not yet exact statistics on the incidence.However, it is impossible to talk about the epidemic: all people are not infected, according to advertising, but only some.
In Europe, around 15 parasitic infections are the most common.
The most important thing is that you should 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 briefly described as follows:
| Symptom | Infection |
| Dry cough | Ascariase, toxocarosis, anquilostomosis, strungyloidosis, echinococcosis. |
| A rash on the skin, similar to allergies | Such a symptom can be observed when infected with all types of worms.If the eruption is located in a specific place (for example, on the leg), its cause can be an anquilostomosis, a rope, a toxocarosis or a schistosomosis. |
| Itching in the anus or the genitals | Speakers |
| Fever, weakness, chills, severe abdominal pain | Lambiosis, opisthorchiasis, clonorchosis, trichinellosis, schistosomosis. |
| Long diarrhea (diarrhea) | Lambliosis |
| Long abdominal pain | Ascaridosis, ankylostomosis, infection by a Taureau tenia, diphyllobotriosis, trichocephalosis, stingyidosis. |
| Severe pain in muscles | Trichinellosis, echinococcosis |
| Visual violation | Perhaps with many infections, including toxocarosis, ascariase, toxoplasmosis, fasciolosis. |
| Service under the skin | Fasciolosis, ascariase, pork infection, ankylostomosis. |
| Epilepsy epis, violation of speech, approach or coordination of movements | Echinococcosis, toxoplasmosis, toxocarosis, cytycchosis (pork chain) |
| The appearance of blood in the urine | Triphosis |
| Selection of worms with excrement | Acidose |
Advertising often connects many other symptoms to parasites: from bad appetite to hair loss.As a rule, it is only a fiction of charlatans that exploits the fear of patients and their ignorance in this very complex field of medicine.
How to be infected
To reduce the risk of infection, you do not need to enter the transmission mechanisms of each infection.Just remember the general transmission paths and how to withstand the infection.
1. There are unwashed products, drink dirty water
Many infections are transmitted by polluted soil products and water, including giardiase, ascariase, echinococcosis, ankylostomosis.
How to protect yourself
- Wash the vegetables and fruits carefully before meals.
- Wash your hands, especially after contact with the floor.
- Never drink unknown sources.
- During travel (especially in developing countries), only drink bottled water.
2. He believed or fish there
This transmission path is characteristic of tyniosis (pork tenia), trichinellosis, dipillobotriosis, opisthorchiasis 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 the meat and fish thoroughly.
- Freezing fish in an ordinary freezer at a temperature of -18 C need at least two weeks.But that will not kill particularly persistent parasites, only industrial frost can destroy them.Therefore, the fish you caught must be boiled and fry: 20 minutes after boiling or heating.
3. Contact with an infected person
Such a mechanism is characteristic of enterobiosis (pinworms).Most often, children are infected with this infection during games with peers in kindergarten or school.
Another infection that is transmitted to infected people is cystiscosis.
How to protect yourself
- Wash your hands before meals.
- During travel, do not eat raw food prepared by other people.For example, fruits have taken off from the skin.
4. Contact with excrement or infected animal chips
Thus transmitted dipylidiosis, toxoplasmosis and other infections.
How to protect yourself
- Wash your hands after contact with animals or a floor that could be infected with their excrement.
- Periodically give animal antiparasitic agents and regularly use fleas.
5. Contact with infected water and soil
Certain parasites (for example, pathogens of scabies or schistosomosis) can penetrate the body through the skin when you bathe or go barefoot on an infected soil.
How to protect yourself
- By traveling to tropical countries, always wear shoes.
- Never swim in unknown fresh tanks that can be polluted by wastewater.
How to understand that you have parasites
Blood or excrement analysis to identify "all parasites at the same time" does not exist.The diagnostic algorithms for parasitic infections are very different and always depends on:
- What symptoms are worried about a person.
- What infection it 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.
Do I have to drink antiparasitic drugs for prevention
No, these are bad tactics.First, different parasitic infections are given to a different treatment.
There is no magic pill that would have faced all types of parasites.
Second, to protect against 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 treatment only persists a few days or weeks.But if the contact stops, many parasites die without treatment.
Is it possible to be treated with folk remedies
The use of folk remedies to treat parasites is a bad idea.
The really effective folk remedies for parasites are not yet known.
In addition, many popular remedies have a boring effect and cause the migration of parasites.And the latter is responsible for dangerous complications: intestinal obstruction, blocking of bile ducts, etc.
What you need to remember parasitic infections
- Advertising of miraculous means of parasites - lies.
- If a person is concerned about a symptom, you should pay attention to all possible reasons.
- The treatment must be directed against a specific infection.
- With many parasitic infections, prevention is much greater than treatment.And prevention is elementary hygiene measures.