The disease of opisthorchiasis causes parasites of hepatic trisodium or, in simple terms, worms parasitizing the liver, gallbladder and its ducts, and also the pancreas. Helminths can get to a person with thermally poorly processed fish at dinner, and also if the cutting knife has not been washed and used to cut other products that are not subject to heat treatment, for example bread.
The incubation period of parasites takes an average of about three weeks. However, the disease can make itself felt from the moment of infection from the 5th to the 42nd day.
Symptoms and treatment of opisthorchiasis in adults
Most often the disease begins sharply from the acute phase, but it is possible to gradually increase the symptoms with a general malaise, increased sweating, fast fatigue.
How to identify and treat opisthorchiasis in adults is known to a physician, which should be addressed with the first suspicions of helminth infection.
Signs of opisthorchiasis in adults in the acute phase are accompanied by fever, high fever, up to 40 degrees. Depending on the place and degree of damage, the symptoms become similar to:
- gastritis;
- gastroduodenitis;
- cholecystitis;
- dyskinesia ZHVP;
- hepatitis;
- asthmatic bronchitis, etc.
The body can develop a rash like hives, aches in joints and muscles, pains in the right side, more often of a paroxysmal nature, similar to biliary colic, nausea and vomiting, heartburn, flatulence, weakening of appetite.
When examining the liver and gallbladder, they detect an increase. With a gastroscopic examination, ulcerative lesions of the stomach, duodenum or erosive gastroduodenitis are diagnosed. In terms of general blood test for opisthorchiasis in adults, ESR increases to 40 mm / hour, leukocytosis increases, eosinophilia reaches a value of 25 to 60%, which indirectly confirms the presence of this disease and requires further diagnosis.
In the acute phase, the disease can last from a month to two, and in chronic form - for years and even decades, it all depends on the degree of infection, the characteristics of the body and the defeat of organs, as well as timely treatment to the doctor.
There is no universal drug for opisthorchiasis in adults, since the treatment is carried out in a comprehensive manner, starting with measures to stop the inflammatory process and allergic reactions using sedative and antiallergic drugs, and ending with other medicinal purposes with the purpose of rehabilitation and restoration of the functions of the affected organs. The fight against parasites is carried out with a wide-spectrum anthelmintic preparation, in particular a biltricide. But in connection with the possibility of developing serious side effects from its use, the patient is prescribed treatment with this drug in a hospital under the constant supervision of a doctor and medical staff.
Treatment of opisthorchiasis in adults with folk remedies
When deciding on self-treatment with folk remedies, each person should understand that the effectiveness of these methods has not been officially proven and all the risk of complications of the patient assumes.
In people from helminths were treated with birch tar, pumpkin seeds and such herbs as:
- St. John's wort;
- celandine;
- nettle with cumin;
- aspen bark, etc.
Recipe # 1
Ingredients:
- birch tar - 1 drop;
- apple or carrot puree - 1 tsp.
Preparation and use
Tar should be added to grated apple or carrot puree, and so take before going to bed for 10-12 days, washing down with water.
Recipe # 2
Ingredients:
- ground pumpkin seeds - half a cup;
- honey - 1 tbsp;
- egg yolk - 2 pieces;
- water.
Preparation and use
Pumpkin seeds mixed with a little water, honey and yolks. Take at least 10 days every morning for 30 minutes before eating on an empty stomach. After taking the medicine, you need to lie down for a few hours with the heating pad.