Helminths are the scientific name for worms. These parasites can live in the body of a person, an animal or even a plant. Most of them quickly adapt to life in the fresh air, in water, in the earth. Eggs of helminths - one of the ways to spread pathogens. It is impossible to consider them with the naked eye. But with the consequences of the penetration of worms into the body, it takes a long and tedious fight.
Causes and symptoms of helminth eggs
To helminths it is customary to include ribbon, flat and round worms. Different types of parasites are preferred by different organs. So, for example, cestodes with nematodes and whipworms with pinworms usually live in the large intestine, trematodes are more like the liver and bile ducts, and porcine tapeworm from the intestine immediately penetrates into the blood and with it spreads throughout the body, settling on fatty tissue, vessels located in the muscles, eye cells, the brain.
Worms are dangerous for many reasons. First, they are a source of mechanical damage. Secondly, the products of the vital activity of worms have a poisonous effect on the body. And they get into the body, they usually with unwashed products or contaminated water and as a result of non-compliance with hygiene standards.
Symptoms of penetration of helminth eggs are not always noticeable at once. For a long time a person can be a carrier of worms, but do not feel anything at all. This phenomenon is explained by powerful natural protection. In the human body, there are several protective barriers that can suppress parasite activity:
- enzymes in the oral cavity;
- local immunity of organs;
- acidic gastric environment.
In a weakened body, protection can not work for one hundred percent. And worms use this and make their way to the organ of interest to them. To understand that it is necessary to take the analysis of feces for eggs of helminths, it is possible at the sight of such signs as:
- severe fatigue;
- nausea;
- fits of vomiting;
- salivation;
- pain in the abdomen (usually having a paroxysmal character);
- constipation;
- diarrhea;
- bloating ;
- the appearance of blood veins in the stool;
- deterioration or vice versa, increased appetite;
- weakness;
- skin rashes;
- a sudden cough;
- dyspnea;
- attacks of suffocation;
- itching in the anus and perineum;
- anemic;
- swelling;
- mechanical jaundice;
- inflammation of the lymph nodes.
For the most complex forms of helminthiosis, the organs of vision, kidneys, lungs, and heart are characterized. Some patients develop hepatitis, the hemostasis is broken, the liver with a spleen is enlarged, the imbalance of different proteins in the body is diagnosed.
How correctly to prepare for delivery of the analysis on eggs of helminths?
To make sure that the patient has helminthiasis, you need to conduct a series of studies. On eggs of helminths check soskob, parasites are searched in urine. In addition, the study of feces, contents of the duodenum, bile, muscle tissue, rectal and perianal mucus can provide useful information.
Prepare for analysis should start in three days. For the period of the preparatory period, you should stop using laxatives and those drugs that can affect intestinal motility or change the color of the stool.
Treatment of helminth eggs
In general, get rid of worms have medicamentous way. Although sometimes surgical intervention is required - some parasites are removed only as a result of the operation.
Drugs are selected individually for each case. The best means in their area are such medicines as:
- Albendazole;
- Levamisole;
- Diethylcarbamazine;
- Pirantel;
- Medamin;
- Mebendazole;
- Praziquantel.