Worms in the stool is parasites, which can have harmful effects on both adults and children. But most of all-hazard, all the children, because they have weaker immunity and excessive curiosity. Therefore, the worms in the feces or parasite eggs often possible to detect in children.
It is safe to say that worms is, or was, each of us, so you should know what damage they can cause the person and how they look. It is important to remember that early detection and diagnosis of the parasite is the key to quickly get rid of them.
Classification of helminths, parasitic in humans
There are more than three hundred worms, which can affect people. Among them are the following three categories, or 3 groups that are dangerous.
Round worms or as they are often called — nematodes
According to the title, nematodes visually appear rounded parasites, tips acuminate.
- roundworm — a bright representative of the nematodes. These worms are similar to the stem, the females can reach about 40 to 50 centimeters long, males much less. The danger of these worms is that they live not only in the intestine, the parasites move through the intestines and affect other internal organs. The shuttle is transparent, almost invisible body. The color of adult specimens can be yellowish-red. Ascaris eggs are often the feces, but this does not mean that you can easily find them;
- whipworm — a small worm of a light color. Often this type of worms found in the stool of an adult or child. The parasite wants to be in the rectum, respectively, and the eggs he expresses here, that can give a correct diagnosis;
- Species of Trichinella can reach the floor centimeters long, it is difficult to say how it looks in Calais, because this kind of parasite eggs. This type of worms is viviparous, the larvae after the birth spread throughout the body through the blood vessels of the capsule and die in a few years;
- pinworms look like small worms, the length of which is up to inches, are gray-white. Almost impossible to find eggs of the worms this type of stool, because the females crawling around the anus at night to lay eggs in the folds of the skin. In rare cases, the worms laying in bed. By the way, the adults sometimes go along with feces, they are easy to detect even with the naked eye.
Tapeworms or cestodes
Is the flat look and more like a flat ribbon. Data worms can develop only in the human body. The eggs of flat worms in the form of capsules have to get out the feces that then penetrate into the soil or water. The larvae is the development of the fish or animal.
- the tapeworm is one of the largest worms, which can occur in humans. Often he grows to giant size, around 15-20 meters, he worm rolled into a ball to get out of it. Infection occurs only fish products such as fish, meat or eggs. Every day, adults can distinguish about one million eggs, which go along with feces masses. Helminth eggs in the stool looks like an oval capsule with a yellow-brown shade. Each egg has a bump on one side, and the second cap;
Flukes are worms or flukes
There are about three thousand worms of this class, but many of them do not affect the human body. Their main feature is the spikes and suckers, which they attach to the inside of the organs, especially the intestines, sucking blood. Looks like worms in the faeces in this group? They can be up to eight inches long, often in their body, such as a flat plate, which can be easily attached to the surface and stays in place.
- Siberian cat flukes or Fluke —I prefer to parasitize the cat's body. Such worms is oblong shape, the length of which shall not exceed one and a half inches, with a width of about slightly more than a millimeter. The eggs of this parasite is completed the larva, which, together with the feces comes out. The development of the eggs is from water such as a lake or river;
- the lung Fluke is more common in Asian countries, as these worms are transmitted through fish, crabs and other inhabitants of seas and lakes. These worms want to live in lungs eggs found in the feces or saliva of a sick person. When going outside, they have to get the water directly to the infection occurs. The eggs of the lung Fluke is a reddish color, so the saliva of the patient is often a rusty hue.
- liver flukes also refer to flat worms. This is a very dangerous worm, which can significantly aggravate the infected person. To detect these worms in the stool, it is impossible to six months. Worm eggs are oval — these are large capsules, which other side is a protrusion.
Worms in Calais: photo
Is it possible to detect the helminth eggs in the feces?
If you are wondering how to look like worms in the feces of a child or an adult, it is difficult to detect them without a magnifying glass tool. In rare cases, can be detected only by particles of dead worms or even live pinworms, but the parasite eggs are almost completely undetectable.
Therefore, in the laboratory to identify the worms, experts use a microscope and special dyes. So don't expect that you can detect worms in a young child or without a visit to the clinic. In theory, parasites can indicate some of the symptoms.
The main symptoms of parasites in humans
In the early stages it is impossible to determine whether a child or adult parasites. Even the medical examination and take various samples for testing, does not give an absolute guarantee of parasites. Parasites need time, but immunity may convey that the body has infiltrated the uninvited guests: usually a few hours or days after infection sharply raises the temperature, a rash and irritation on the skin, or early diarrhea and vomiting. So the immune system makes it clear that he's trying to deal with pests.
Symptoms of worm infestation after the defeat of the human body:
- discomfort in the abdominal area, you may experience sharp pain, especially after eating;
- often there is diarrhea, as the intestine to secrete large amounts of fluid to get rid of harmful substances, worms;
- can occur intestinal obstruction, constipation occur when the worm-the large size covers the intestines and does not pass fecal masses;
- nausea or vomiting, most often after meals, especially if she doesn't like worms;
- allergic reactions usually appear in the skin, such as rashes and itching, if a person damage to the skin, there is a high risk of secondary infection;
- weight loss or on the contrary, increased obesity. Worms has a negative effect on the metabolism, when all the nutrients, leaving only remnants. But the infected can either lose your appetite or, on the contrary, constantly want to eat when you don't know when to stop;
- headache, irritability and dizziness are often the result of high intoxication, such as harmful substances excreted by the worms, mixed with blood, which negatively affects the nervous system;
- temperature or even fever is also associated with the poisoning of the body, the adult worms will die often, aggravate the situation;
- fatigue and chronic fatigue are also the result of under helminths on the nervous system;
- possible itching near the anus, symptoms often associated with the presence of pinworms;
- cough, both dry and high concentration of sputum, which contains the eggs of parasites.
Treatment — how to get rid of worms in the body of a child or adult
After the detection of worms in the stool, the patient should contact the hospital where the doctor-parasitologist, doing all the necessary tests and identify the degree of development of the helminths, and helminths, according to him, child or adult.
- Firstly, it is desirable to weaken the parasites, such as diet. You can't eat oily, bitter and sweet. It is recommended to drink plenty of mineral water, adults are not recommended to drink alcohol a few days before the start of treatment.
- Now assigned to the reception of the most important drugs that save human parasites.
There are other effective drugs that can be used when dealing with worms. Each of the drug the active substance, it can affect children and adults, so before the mandatory consultation with a physician, and even better if he can prescribe treatment after the survey.
When this drug has a powerful effect on intoxication, which can lead to vomiting, fever and even fever, especially in children (due to weak immunity). Many doctors after medication worms, it is recommended to take activated charcoal or white, there is also another sorbent. These medications will cleanse the intestines and the body from the dead parasites, not be given the effect of intoxication to disperse throughout the body.
After treatment ended, it is recommended to perform the recovery: worms attacked many organs and it is now necessary to restore the immune system. In this case, a person who is appointed, taking vitamin complexes, you can drink carrot juice, eat more fruit. And most importantly, protection from re-infection with worms, that can hurt even more immature immune system after treatment.