Worms in children is quite common, since they are more exposed to the environment, as well as the worms of the body falls on the dirty hand, use sand, poorly washed foods (vegetables, fruits). Some helminths can be transmitted through blood mother-to-child in utero, so born parasites living in the intestines or other digestive organs.
- Symptoms
- Diagnosis, treatment
- The traditional medicine
Unfortunately, parents can't be a coincidence, to protect the child, that the blow, as the worms appear, after you have purchased the contaminated lake, Pat, domestic cat, or a dog, to eat I never wash the Apple, etc. The sick baby is healthy, the eggs are just transmitted agents, parasites, as the tapeworm, and dwarf tapeworm – infection with other helminths requires that the maturation of these eggs in the organs of the intermediate stations (dog, cat, cattle, fish, etc.). Therefore, the infection with other helminths may occur in the use of the child's flesh or other products in the infected animals, or direct contact with them.
In short, the worms, the children is difficult to prevent, but even then, if the parents early to encourage your child to follow the rules of personal hygiene, even the baby can catch the infection, dealing with the kids on the Playground, games in the yard or in kindergarten, etc.
Most often, the worms, the children are detected, the newborn or preschool age. This is due to insufficient development of immune system and barrier function in the gastrointestinal tract.
Prevention of worm infection (infection, dissemination) must comply with the following simple measures:
- hand washing after walking in the street;
- prevent the close contact of the baby with the stray animals (and sometimes in the home if you suspect that these worms);
- regular cleaning to remove dust, then wash the floor;
- wash your fruit and vegetables to eating them, a complete thermal treatment of food products such as meat, fish, etc.
The to prevent the spread of the worms, to the family all members of the hygiene items, towels, soap. It is also important to separate spoons, plates, glasses and other Cutlery.
Symptoms
Signs of worms in children may be expressed or hidden. According to experts, 8 out of 10 children infected with helminths, however, in most cases, the symptoms don't show up. This does not mean that the worms don't pose a threat to the children. On the contrary, the latent form of the disease, when the symptoms are missing, the more dangerous. First, because the child's body, it may be that the processes that cause the severe complications, in the background the worm infection, on the other hand, because such a child could be the source of the infection to others (children, parents), the infection quickly spread.
If you have found worms in children the symptoms of the pathology first, and then the clinical. Such a child complaining about:
- distraction;
- weakness;
- lethargy;
- irritability;
- grouch.
In most cases these symptoms are the worms, the children, the parents take over the complex in order to restore the child, or apply corrective methods. More specific symptoms caused by helminthiasisok infection during the active breeding season, during migration through the body, and in those cases, when the cause of the complications, in children.
Of course, all species of the helminths, it may be that the specific symptoms. For example, the main symptom of the pinworm – severe itching in the anal area that occurs at night. But the symptoms common to all types of worms, including:
- sleep at night, teeth grinding (at night);
- diarrhoeal disorders (constipation, diarrhea, mucus in the stool, blood in stool, etc.);
- cramping pain in the belly button area (this area is the location of most of the helminths);
- skin reactions, such as atopic dermatitis.
To understand the children had worms in the presence of symptoms not the cold, against the backdrop of the well-being (what happens when migrating certain types of worms in the body), nausea, vomiting, flatulence, and, of course, at the exit of the parasite together with stool that can be seen with the naked eye.
It may seem that the damage caused by helminths of the child's body, not too significant and, therefore, to treat the disease or not (let's say, the worms themselves will die over time). However, actually, the question is, how to get rid of the worms, the children, as soon as possible – as soon as the first symptoms. Because otherwise there is a risk that the child lags behind in physical and intellectual development, and also that he may develop some complications from the inflammation of the Appendix and the end of it, acute bowel obstruction or even bowel perforation. Besides, the doctors said, more than half of all skin diseases are caused by the presence in their bodies of the parasites, the treatment, which is not carried out.
Several groups of symptoms, depending on the helminthiasisok parasites in the body of the child. So, if the child lives in the body of the class worms nematodes (yarn), the symptoms will be similar to the above, but other helminths may be other specific symptoms that have the treatment. So, when the escape and trihozefaleze the children have a disease, the chair, the blood, mucus inside. It should also be noted, flatulence, vomiting, mental development of the young child.
The opisthorchiasis of the child's temperature rises up to al-fever indicators appear, skin rashes, enlarged lymph nodes, liver. Will the pain in the stomach and right hypochondrium, nausea, vomiting, gastro-intestinal disorders. This is a cure of infection, if not treated, may develop severe pancreatitis and other complications.
When toxocariasis, which can be found in children 4 years of age children suffer from a pronounced allergic cough, have an itchy rash on the skin affects the lungs, joints, liver and many other organs. If the disease is not treated, may develop irreversible damage to the eye, chorioretinitis, keratitis, and other serious violations.
Diagnosis, treatment
Install the most helminthiasis is also moving a chair. There is a short study of the used enterobioze (scraping), and a thorough examination of the feces, the eggs, the worms. The accompanying survey analysis of feces on a dysbacteriosis. And then appointed by the general analysis of the blood.
In some cases, shows that the study of the blood DNA of certain species of helminths. But this analysis is expensive, not always justified, since the DNA is a long time to stay in the blood, therefore, even if the child is not the worms, the analysis can be positive, if you ever get hurt, one way or another parasitic infection.
The treatment includes the pill, the worms in children. Unfortunately, the drugs that kill helminths, there is a relatively high toxic effect on the whole body, so this treatment is only justified cases, the diagnosis of helminthiasis. Cure the worms, the children divided into several groups, each of which involves certain types of worms.
As mentioned above, drugs against worms in the children selected by the physician, taking into account more features. This determines how drugs are the most harmful effect on certain helminthiasisok infection, and what drugs will cause least damage to the body of the baby, help him to quickly get rid of the disease or the severe symptoms.
The treatment to get rid of worms, usually carried out in two stages – the medication again two weeks after the first course of treatment, which is related to the cycle of development and multiplication of many parasites, the inability to destroy the eggs when they are inactive. Unfortunately, in some cases, to get rid of the worms is possible only through surgical intervention, for example, when there was a blockage in the lumen of the bowel developed bowel obstruction.
The method of traditional medicine in the fight against the worms
A lot of popular methods to get rid of the worms, in the shortest possible time, without compromising the baby's health. Of course, traditional methods must be used with caution – it is best to consult your doctor, to see something of traditional medicine worms children (taking into account the peculiarities of the body's health).
People methods to get rid of parasites as well as very young children, older children. So, the treatment, the parasites in the body babies can do it: preparing hot garlic soup use microclysters the baby. Or fit a newborn even such folk remedies for the treatment of parasites in the body, such as:
- introduction cloves of garlic in the anus the pinworm;
- carrot juice on an empty stomach with honey;
- enema a decoction of garlic in warm milk.
Unfortunately, in infants, how to get rid of the pinworms folk medicine not so much because it is forbidden to accept many elements, which affect helminthiasisok devastating effect. But the older children and adults, folk methods there are many effective, including:
- the use of wormwood infusion with milk;
- the decoction of elecampane, and celandine in equal proportions;
- fasting hemp oil;
- the use of pumpkin seeds.