Worms in the eyes — the Symptoms of worms in humans, treatment with

Everyone knows who the worms, but most of us believe that they live only in our intestines. However, many helminths choose a totally different life: liver, lungs, muscles and even the brain.

Worms in the eyes wind up in a climate with high temperature and humidity at greatest risk of infecting the inhabitants of these countries and travelers. However, there are worms that can live in the eyes and in our climatic conditions.

Eye disease is very dangerous, it leads to inflammation in the body, metabolic disorders, and if left untreated, can result in serious eye damage or even blindness.

Opisthorchiasis

Disease that causes, opisthorchis, another name — the cat's Fluke. A parasite in the pancreas, liver or bile ducts, but can live in the eyes of a man. This is the worm, having the form of a sheet, a length of 18 mm with several suction cups.

In the cycle of development he has 3 owners, two intermediate, and the third is permanent. The cycle begins always with cadilla mollusk that lives in fresh water, the next media — a fish of the carp family.

The last host is a person or animal (Fox, raccoon, dog, cat, etc.), who decided to eat fish infected with opisthorchis. Most often, the infection occurs in settlements situated at river mouths. With regular use of a large number of river fish, people sooner or later become infected.

Symptoms and treatment

When hit opistorchis in eyes affected choroid, occurs keratitis and optic neuritis. Incidence of bilateral, but sometimes unilateral. May start bleeding in the eye, which without treatment leads to complete filling of the eyeball blood — hemophthalmus.

Treatment involves deworming with the drug chlorinol, and the use of choleretic (olimetin, tsikvalon) and an antihistamine (albendazole, praziquantel) medication. For the local treatment of the organs of vision use eye drops and ointments.

Cysticercosis

Is caused by ingestion of larvae of pork tapeworm, which are 3-15 mm bubble filled with liquid. In the stomach the shell is dissolved, the larvae and eggs of the parasite from the blood are carried throughout the body. Part of the egg is fixed in the brain and spinal cord and muscles.

Cysticercosis is a disease in which tapeworm eggs are fixed in the vitreous body of the eye.

Symptoms and treatment

Symptoms of the eye: conjunctivitis, retinite, reactive uveitis, subsequently, this leads to atrophy of the eye and blindness. Patients notice a decrease in visual acuity and retinal detachment.

To treat the disease you must use the antiparasitic praziquantel. Isolated nodes and cysts are removed surgically.

Hydatid worms

Echinococcus — worms from the group of tapeworms, parasitic in both animals and humans. The disease causes the larva of the worm, it attaches to the mucosa with suction cups-hooks, forms around itself a cyst, in which lives and develops.

Initially, the parasite lives in the intestine, but in the future, the blood may migrate to lungs, liver, bones, muscles, and eyes. Mature form occurs only in some animals, the person is not found.

Symptoms and treatment

Externally Echinococcus infection resembles a tumor. Gradually the cyst increases in size, shifting the eyeball, making the eyes look bulging. When you blink the person feels discomfort, has a feeling of a foreign object in the eye. Mucosa becomes dry, the eyelids stretched and thin. The localization in the lacrimal glands, there is a constant tearing.

To cure tapeworm taking a vermifuge (Pyrantel dekaris) in the cavity of the cyst are injected chemotherapy drugs (hloksila, ditrazin). Myself ocular hydatid worm is removed surgically.

Dirofilariasis

Causes a parasite moving under the skin. Most often in the human body are inhabited by only one species. In the body it hits with the bite of a mosquito, remains in this state a month, after which begins to move under the skin, often localizes in the area of the organs of vision.

Symptoms and treatment

The appearance of smalla pimple and you notice as he moves across the body. If the parasite dies, then there are symptoms of intoxication: fever, chills, nausea.

In contact with the worms in your eyes a knot on the century, touching which, or exposed to light become very painful. While the eyelids swell and redden. However, getting the worm in the eyeball itself, usually leads to complete blindness. Treatment requires surgery to remove the worms.

Oftalmia

This disease occurs due to parasitism in the eyes of the man of the larvae of insects, usually flies. The larva looks like worms. Most often, the larva develops only to the first stage, with further development possibly very serious eye damage.

There are 2 types of ophthalmometer — outer and inner. Outer is more common, while the larva penetrates the skin in the eye area. Intraocular oftalmia occurs when the larvae penetrate under the mucous membrane of the eyes, when this happens front and rear oftalmia.

Symptoms and treatment

Externally, the infected outer ophthalmometer looks like a small boil, there is an inflammatory reaction. The main symptom is a feeling like worms moving under the skin. Sometimes their movement can be seen from the outside.

At intraocular front ophthalmometer vision falls sharply, often a person goes blind completely. When rear sometimes the disease is asymptomatic until while people will not go blind, sometimes markedly retinal detachment other disorders of the organ of vision. The larvae are removed by surgery, and then are appointed by antihistamines and detoxification drugs.

Prevention of ocular helminthiasis

Prevention of diseases, which may develop worms in the organs of sight, not too complicated.

It is enough to observe some simple rules:

• compliance with the rules of cooking, sufficient heat and salt treatment. Attentive to river fish (source opistorchis) and pork (the source of the pork tapeworm),
• do not eat unwashed vegetables and fruits, and especially wild plants and mushrooms,
• do not drink the water without boiling from open natural sources,
• personal hygiene, washing hands after playing and socialising with the animals, work in the garden, the garden, after a visit to the streets, parks, forests,
• do not touch eyes with hands, especially unwashed,
• time to get rid of insects at home, to keep the house clean in order to avoid the proliferation of flies and their larvae, the use of repellents to protect from bites on holiday or during a long stay in the open air in a period of great activity of blood-sucking insects.

Conclusion

Worms in the eyes is very serious. For prevention you must comply with all rules of personal hygiene, get rid of insects at home and protect themselves from on vacation and also to observe the rules of cooking.

To monitor closely your emotional state and at the first sign of any of these diseases need to consult an ophthalmologist for the timely diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Do not self-medicate, consult a specialist!