According to the World Health Organization, over 4.5 billion people are infected with parasitic diseases in the world.This is not even every second person, but more!
In developing countries, their prevalence indicators are much higher than the population of developed countries, which demonstrates the influence of living standards and home conditions on these parasites.Read the most common of them below.
Bugs
Furniture, wallpaper, mattresses - all of these are favorite habitats of small flat insects, known as bed bugs.They prefer to live alongside people or pets to get out of their shelters freely at night to fall into the warm human blood.
These bugs are not carriers of diseases, but can cause an allergic reaction.If the bites are very combed, an infection can be brought to the wound.Take the place of the bite with an antiseptic or take an antihistamine.
Lice
These insects also eat human blood.And contrary to the prevalent opinion, they can live not only on the head, but in general with the whole body.
Lice are easier to collect through close contact with someone who already has them and fight with the help of various means, including special shampoos.
Scabbie bug
The barriers are caused by ticks that penetrate the skin and lay eggs there.And the infection occurs with prolonged contact with the skin of a sick person.
The symptoms of the scabbias include itching, papuliovesicular skin rash and the formation of a crust on the interested surface of the skin.It is treated with special drugs.
Pork chain
This parasite enters the human body more often with not sufficiently welded pork, but the transmission is also possible in contact with the feces of an infected person or animal.
The parasite affects the intestine and the brain, which leads to the cysticercosis, a disease that causes headache.Depending on the severity of the disease, the treatment is not performed at all or surgical methods are used.
Parasites build their lives next to us (and also in us), but we don't suspect it.
Naegleria Fowleri
Naegleria Fowleri is a love that lives in fresh hot water, which is more common in the South -East Asia and enters the human body when the bathroom and the water that enters the nose go.
Due to Meningoencephalite Primary of Amo -Bacon - a disease in which the brain is destroyed.Symptoms of the disease: headache, high temperature, vomiting, confusion, convulsions, compromise of balance and loss of consciousness.At the moment, there are only experimental drugs from such a disease, so survival with it is extremely low.
Round worms
An entire group of worms (Ascarides, Trichinelles, Pinworms and so on).Most of them influence the intestine.But a species that causes parasitic tricinellosis in the muscles.
The symptoms of infection with such parasites: abdominal pain (ascarid), blood loss and anemia (Hokworms), itching in the anus (Pinworms), pain, heat, facial edema, redness of the skin (tricinella), mucus, liquid and blood in the stool, damage to the mucous membrane of the colon mucosa (Belly -deled).
You can get rid of these parasites with the help of the drugs recommended by the doctor.
Intestinal lamblia
If, after a journey to nature, you started to torment signs such as diarrhea, swelling, cramps, nausea, then - do not go to the fortuneeller - this evil parasite probably penetrated your body.You can be infected through food and water, as well as through contact with the feces of an infected person or animal.Fortunately, it is treated quickly and not expensive medicines.
Tripanosome
This parasite causes a Shagas disease that threatens life.The disease spreads with a special type of bugs.The symptoms - heat, fatigue, head pain and muscles, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting and edema of the eyelids - are manifested very quickly.
The disease can cause chronic heart and intestine damage.The disease is treated with special drugs.
Cryptosporids
These parasites affect the intestine.They spread through contact with the feces of an infected person or animal.Very often, the infection occurs during the bathroom.Diarrhea caused by cryptosporids can last long, but very often it does not require treatment.
Plasmodium Falciparum
The carriers of this parasite that cause malaria are mosquitoes.This type of malaria is considered the most dangerous and causes more deaths than all the others.
The symptoms are similar to the symptoms of the flu: chills, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting.To establish a diagnosis, a laboratory blood test is required.The main thing to remember is: the first treatment has started, the more the patient has the opportunity to survive.
Trichomonad
This parasite causes a sexually transmitted disease called tricomoniasis.Most infected symptoms are absent.But some may feel itching, burning or irritation in the genital area.The disease is treated with antibiotics.
Dienmoeba Fragilis
Doctors still don't know how this parasite that affects the colon enters the body.In some, the disease proceeds asymptomatic, others complain about abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Dienmoeba Fragilis is found in all regions of the world.The doctor may prescribe special drugs to fight this microorganism.
Toxoplasma
This parasite feels at home in feces of meat, water and cats.In people, toxoplasma causes a disease with a similar name - toxoplasmosis.And its symptoms sometimes resemble flu.
In pregnant women and in people with weakened immunity, the symptoms can be more serious, for example, with toxoplasmosis, cysts in the muscles, brain and even ... the eyes can form.If necessary, pharmacological treatment is prescribed.
Verme Guinea
The disease caused by this parasite (its scientific name - Draunculus Medinsis) is not found practically in our times - due to the dissemination of information on the precautions.The parasite enters the human body with the absorption of water, in which there were a large grenade infected with parasite larvae.
In the human body, they grow in the intestine, after which they migrate into the lymphatic pots and from there they penetrate the skin and are located in the subcutaneous tissue.Among the symptoms there may be warmth, edema and pain at the place of localization of the worm.But from the moment of infection, to the appearance of the first symptoms, one year can pass.And there is no treatment.