Pinworms in children — Symptoms and treatments for pinworms in a child

Dangerous bacteria, viruses and parasites lie in wait for the child at every step. The task of the mother to warn their child and be on the alert at any time. You must be able to differentiate normal child behavior from the uncharacteristic behavior. After all, sometimes even excessive activity can be a kind of wakeup call for paying attention to the health of your baby. Unfortunately to protect the child from all adversity is simply impossible. The probability of penetration into the body of helminths is extremely large, and the symptoms often go unnoticed, parents may simply not pay attention to them, as well as the family are usually closely contact with each other, a parasitic disease will affect every family member.

Children are predisposed to parasitic diseases, because of their curiosity and activity, in addition to that they often neglect hygiene procedures, they can drink or eat from the same utensils with other children. Infection with worms occurs through the alimentary (fecal-oral route) and by airborne droplets, for example inhaling the eggs of worms with dust. Therefore the hardest to protect the child from vstrechnogo helminthiasis, which is most common, for the reason that the laying of eggs occurs outside the human body, getting on hands helminth eggs absement all around. A child plays in the sandbox or going to school, communicating there with other children, exposing to the infection of others. Summer is the season of exacerbation of helminth infections, many temptations to neglect hygiene arise during this period.

What is ustrichny helminthiasis?

Pinworms are parasites related to roundworms (nematodes). The disease is caused ostricami worms called pinworms that can be literally translated as life in the intestine.

What should you do if a child in the body of parasites pinworms?

First, the self to do dangerous for the health of your child, it is recommended to consult a doctor to be tested and documented to confirm the diagnosis, because some symptoms for diagnosis is not enough, the bot combines all the diseases caused by parasitic worms, for every kind of parasite pick up some medicine that affect this species of helminth.

Second, we need to study the enemy, to spare the child from pinworm, you need to know the life cycle of the helminth vstrechnogo and find his weaknesses, would do well to know the precautions and all the nuances associated with strychnin helminthiasis during treatment.

Thirdly, you need to think about how to treat the baby, choose with your doctor the medication is able to relieve the child from pinworms, also the doctor should explain how to cure your child with the help of medicines.

Brief information about osteomyelitic

Pinworms enter the body orally (through the mouth, by ingesting Mature eggs), or through airborne droplets from person to person, animals are not hurt by this kind of worms. The eggs of pinworms withstand the load of the stomach, enter the duodenum where they hatch larvae, on the way to the small intestine, the larvae reach maturity. Pinworms heterosexual worms, after mating, the males die and the females gradually move towards the rectum to lay their eggs outside in prianalnoy the crease. The eggs of pinworms in the atmosphere of the bowel die, so the females have to migrate outward migration occurs at night, when the anus in a relaxed state. The eggs of pinworms reach maturity in the next five hours. After laying eggs, the female returns to the intestines, where he died. Ostrinia worms live for about 4 weeks.

Symptoms of enterobiasis

Symptoms are caused by enterobiasis can remain without attention of parents, after all, the most obvious signs of this disease almost no

• Itching in the anus (prevalent during the night time, the initial itch night is repeated for several days, and in advanced stage itching much longer itching associated with female migration from the intestine to the external environment, and the duration of itching depends on the amount of contamination and females from different age groups ie. when the body is present at one time parasitic individuals of all ages, the pinworm eggs, larvae and Mature individuals, the fertilized. Every generation of females in this case, after fertilization, will migrate through the sphincter of the rectum.),
• Loss of appetite,
• Teeth grinding, (bruxism),
• Abdominal discomfort,
• Abdominal pain (often pain caused by pinworms in children, periodic, so parents take thissymptom as a result of the gas formation, intestinal colic caused by any of the products if the pain is constant there is a long-term course of the disease),

Disease enterobiasis is characterized by inflammation of the intestinal wall. this is due to the fact that individuals injure the mucous membrane, and sometimes parasitic species penetrates the intestinal wall to a depth of 2/3 of his body. With the size of individuals: female size ranges from 1-1. 3 cm, and males 0.5 cm.
You can imagine the defeat of the intestine, because in the body of an infected person is developing quite a lot of parasitic worms. In the intestinal region, where trauma is formed most often, there is inflammation, which later develops into an ulcer. Parasitic worm attaches to the intestinal wall in order to gain a foothold in the body and not to fall out with the stool rather than violate the mucosa.

Again, if you found the child a number of symptoms corresponding to the disease, you need to go to the doctor for an accurate diagnosis. A timely appeal to the specialist will prevent from the effects of helminthiasis.

The consequences of enterobiasis

• inflammation of the intestine, the duodenum,
• appendicitis is caused by movement of worms,
• intestinal obstruction (this consequence may occur in children under 1 year of age, due to blockage of the intestines by worms, in children of early age the thickness of the small intestine, the excessive spread of worms threatens the formation of the tube, which is removed only surgically),
• dysbiosis (the next stage of development of dysbacteriosis is gastritis),
• the nervous system impairment/intellectual impairment/memory impairment,
• dermatitis caused by scratching in prianalnoy region,
• vaginitis in girls (caused by penetration of the worms in the genital area),
• Liver inflammation/jaundice (migration of worms to the liver),

Note

Recommendation to relieve symptoms:

In order to save a child from a strong itching in the anus can moisten the swab with hydrogen peroxide and apply to the delivered inconveniences.

What tests are required for accurate diagnosis?

If the doctor suspected the presence of worms appoint:

1. The analysis of a feces on eggs of worms,
2. Scraping on enterobiasis,

On the certificate coding of the disease is indicated by: B80-Enterobiasis.

Can ustrichny helminthiasis pass on their own?

Yes, maybe. Life ostrich worms up to 4 weeks, laying eggs, and thus the ripening occurs outside of the body if you strictly follow all hygienic procedures, avoiding samsarajade, pinworms do leave the habitat.

Medication against vstrechnogo helminthiasis are divided depending on age:

Medical treatment prescribed by a doctor after diagnosis.

Treatment

1. treatment of children under one year,
2. treatment of children up to 2 years,
3. treatment of children from 2 years and more,

For these groups, age categories of children have their own dosage of drugs, and for each type of drug the dosage is different.

General guidelines for parents during the course of treatment

To achieve the effectiveness of the treatment subject to the following rules:

• Cut your nails kid,
• Conduct regular hygiene procedures,
• Underwear to choose tightly attached rubber bands to prevent the penetration of her hands under the linen, during sleep, to eliminate itch urge,
• Bed linen and underwear to change each day,
• It is advisable to be boiled or heat treated iron,
• To prevent the infiltration of arms into the pink cavity, the child should not be given: sucking fingers, nail biting, pen and so on,
• Explain to the child the importance of hygiene,
• Hygiene rules to respect all members of the family and undergo treatment together with their child.
• Disinfection of premises must be carried out several times a day, morning and evening,

The most important thing in the elimination of helminthiasis vstrechnogo to avoid samsarajade.
The medication is designed for the destruction of adults and eggs of pinworms is not affected, so it is important that the child is not picked up a new batch ostrich worms.
Disinfectants do not affect the destruction of helminth eggs, to get rid of them only by high temperature. Disinfectant procedures is achieved only by flushing with the surface of the helminth eggs.

During drug treatments need to stick to the diet.

Diet is aimed at excluding those products which strengthen the chair.
Products fixing chair: mashed potatoes, semolina and white rice (foods containing a lot of starch), fried, smoked products, salty fish, sausage, cheese, boiled milk, pureed and crushed foods, viscous oatmeal and strong broth, applesauce attaches (as opposed to raw apples), jelly, cream soup (in cereal broth).

Hot food relaxes the gut wall, reducing physical activity, thus the food gets.

Than the recommended amount to feed: milk drinks, kvass, cabbage, lettuce, pumpkin, beets, carrots, celery.

Treatment regimen:

• Start diet the day before the treatment,
• At night you can get an enema with baking soda(to coordinate with your doctor),

(How to treat and how to treat your child individually needs to tell the doctor)
To use a drug only need the one appointed for the child pediatrician, most of the de-worming remedies are sold as tablets or suspensions, the duration of therapy depends on the assigned drug. It is also necessary to withdraw the worms by using sorbents.
The fact that one kind of medicine kills the parasites, paralyzing their nervous system or killing, but not removing them from the body of dead worms.
another type of influencing means displays the body of worms and toxic substances forming during the decomposition. Therefore, the treatment is divided into stages.
The therapeutic effect can only be achieved in conjunction with implementation of recommendations.

Pinworms in children under one year of life manifested by those symptoms, as described above. A child whose age is 1 year and more susceptible to parasitic diseases, it is therefore necessary to make regular inspection. Pinworms the child of early age to find very hard, if you began to find scratches in the back passage do not rush to think that it is pinworms, found the symptom may be a sign of an allergic reaction, in this case of pinworms, the child and there is no need to take measures to eliminate the allergen. To detect pinworms in a child it is necessary to make scrapings, feces analysis on helminth eggs. Withdraw pinworms using prescribed medications, observing all hygiene procedures and General recommendations for parents. The treatment plan for children of all ages are similar, differing in dosage.

What works better a tablet or suspension?

The action does not depend on the form of preparation, it depends on the type of drug and active substances, but from the point of view of convenience, to give medicine to children better suspension than tablet.

How to give kids medicine in a pill?

Basically, many drugs are present the child can be crushed into powder, dissolve sweetened water and carefully pour in the mouth, this applies to those assets for which it does not matter in what Department of gastro-intestinal tract will be the active substance.

Any medication before giving it to coordinate with the doctor, urged to carefully read the user manual of the drug.
If after the drug side effects about which the doctor did not warn you, you need to urgently contact him to agree a way forward.