A tapeworm — symptoms and treatment of the parasite in humans

The water cycle in nature – the natural cycle of life on the planet. Analogues of this phenomenon in the animal world and the human world is not. But we are only one-millionth part of all living organisms that inhabit the Earth. And among them, of course, there are those who are beginning their life cycle and ends it in the same environment, when between these points lies a long, difficult and full of dangers way. This way of life are the creatures called bioelement.

Probably many of you know that helminths are the scientific name for worms that live in fish, birds, animals and people. So bioelement – those representatives of the parasites that hatch from eggs in the human body along with the feces come out through the sewers into the waters where the larvae develop in, hit first, small crustaceans, and then fall to the fish and through their carcasses once again penetrate into the body of the people.

One such worm is a tapeworm, and his way of life worthy of the description in this article, as he is our potential enemy, which everyone should know.

Appearance

A tapeworm looks like a long bright worm of a flattened width. The color of the parasite is more bodily than the white – shades of the parasite varied according to age: milk, beige, gray. When we say long, we mean the distance between the two, up to 12 meters.

Recall that the length of the intestine of an adult human varies only three to four meters, and it means that the tapeworm wide taking up the whole cavity, twisting it several times. His body is made of square sections, scales. Their number in the thousands. And each of these cavities is in itself a uterus with a special hole in the middle, from which are deposited eggs of the broad tapeworm.

During the breeding season on the day the parasite could leave up to a million progeny. Attach flakes, or as they are called segments, for each other, and begin to head scales. She's the five millimeter with two feelers, which focuses in the human gut and pushed at him, attaching itself to the tissues.

In places of attachment on the human small and large intestines appear microassay.

Inhabitancy

Out of the broad tapeworm eggs from the scales of his body along with the feces, leaving the intestine, starting their independent life.

Imperfect sewage system, no program Helio or chloropentyl, skips these organisms in water bodies. Of helminth eggs hatch into larvae. They are called Coricidin. Coricidin can live in the environment for only a week, during this time, they look for a new owner.

While lacinka little, and lively house she finds a small. They are freshwater crustaceans, Daphnia, Cyclops, who ingest the larvae along with other food. In such a body, coratia for a few weeks, grows into a procercoid and waiting for its owner will eat big fish.

This parasite is becoming common carp, or perch, or burbot, may be someone from the salmon family, but not the essence of the parasite, together with the crustacean enters the fish body, which is freely available in every fish store and gets on our table. We happily believe that slabovrajennoe fish will remain more valuable substances and kindly opens to broad tapeworm doors in his old new home.

Once in the intestine, the worms attached to the walls, spreading throughout the length and width, and begins to settle down to the life of his master. Adaptation period can last from twenty to fifty days. During this time, a tapeworm grows to its maximum size and begins work on the breeding and keeping yourself in good physical shape.

The human form at the same time, accordingly, suffer. How? Talk a little lower.

Attention: danger of

A tapeworm, being in a human body causes disease difillobotrioz.

This disease is characterized by the following signs:

• fixed the irritability of the intestine. In critical cases – obstruction,
• provokes funicular myelosis is a disease of the spinal cord, combined sclerosis, which develops as a result of a prolonged deficiency of vitamin B12, which "eats" and does not allow the blood of a tapeworm,
• there is a risk of cancer of the intestine as the microflora is disrupted it regularly,the lowered immunity, vitamin deficiency of the body substantial.

Diagnosis and treatment

If you admit the possibility of infecting a wide lentetsa, synchronize the memory of a recently eaten a piece of fresh fish, perhaps causing the infected with changes in your health.

First and foremost it should be noted, deteriorated appetite, reduced weight, broke the chair, there was vomiting.

How often we repeat these symptoms in a person?

If the results of your observations were not optimistic and a sign of obvious infection, get the doctor infektsionistu blood and feces.
Laboratory studies of infected patients will show a decrease in hemoglobin level, decrease in the number of red blood cells, increased direct bilirubin, deficiency of percentage of leukocytes and other options deviations of indicators of a person's blood from necessary for health and active living the norm.

But the final diagnosis will give the results of the study of feces of the patient, where possible, will find a white round eggs of the parasite.

Treatment broad tapeworm start with wide use of course of vitamins and iron preparations. Required to restore the balance of microelements in the blood. Vitamin B12 is administered intravenously several times a week for one month. In parallel with this, carry out antiparasitic action.

These include:

• anthelmintic tablets and suspension: "Praziquantel", "Azinoks", "Biltricid" and others. Modern pharmaceutical companies are offering a very wide choice of anthelmintic drugs. To pick up your vehicle will help the doctor. Will also develop individually for your state required standard will prescribe a means for children,
• treatment of folk remedies: pumpkin seeds, pounded into flour, mixed with honey and water, with wormwood, dry consumed on an empty stomach for 10 days. These folk remedies have specific components that render worms paralytic effect and gradually kill it,
• the course of dry or water fasting: there are many authors who formed the specialized cycles of fasting, during which you can completely refresh the cells of some of its organs, including the intestine, and bring any parasites. But fasting is necessary to properly performing the exercises on the excretion of bile from the body, putting the enema and stuff,
• special rigid diet, excluding all foods of animal origin.

What is the remedy to a tapeworm came out, and treatment to apply to decide. Treatment methods varied according to time and efficiency. Remember that to begin treatment you need immediately as soon as you have established the presence in your body of this parasite.

You should also after treatment re-tested in three months, as in the folds of the intestine may remain on the eggs of the parasite.

How to get a tapeworm from the body, will become visible to the naked eye. The peculiarity of this representative of the worms that it was too big, so for once the body will not leave and it will leave parts.

Be careful

Once again your body is not seized of a tapeworm, remember its symptoms, which is already known to you and observe some precautions. Because path of infection is always the same – it's raw fish or caviar, prevention is very easy and to follow its implementation very straightforward:

1. wash your hands before eating,
2. thoroughly clean cutting boards and knives after fish,
3. allow the fish until fully cooked, don't eat it undercooked,
4. use marinades and salting, if you're not going thermally processed fish,
5. buy fish and caviar from reputable shops where there are quality certificates.

The incidence of a wide lentetsa most common in small coastal towns and villages, where the locals are fishing and selling fresh fish.

Going on a trip, remember this. Do not risk in vain. Adherence to the simple rules receiving fish food as well as other products, keep your health in a consistently favourable way. Due to the wide lentetsa or any other hostile microorganism discomfort can be eliminated, but it is much easier just to avoid. Let the fishing is you have only pleasant associations. Let the fish chowder or fish pie, and fish fillets in batter or fish baked in beer, Yes indeed, and all the other fish dishes will be able to cause a rumbling in the stomach, not stirring in the guts.

You know what they say cynics, humorists about worms: perhaps in this world you just man, but for somebody you are the whole world. So let us to become someone in the worldspiritual sense, poradnikiem for worms.

Be healthy and take care of yourself.