Parasites are the simplest types of bacteria that live off the nutrients of another organism, parasitizing it. They feed on ready-made organic substances produced by others.
Currently, there are more than twenty types of parasitic life forms that can live in the body of animals or humans.
All of them can enter our body and cause a large number of diseases and infections. Often these bacteria are found in children as they do not have such a high level of immunity, while they have a lot of contact with animals and some dirty things.
Remember that a small child often takes everything in his mouth?
These items may contain dangerous parasites. This article provides a classification of parasites in the human body, how to treat infectious diseases, and what you need to do to prevent harmful bacteria from entering your body.
Parasitic bacteria in the human body, in which organs can they live?
In the human body and on its skin are the simplest bacteria, they can be unicellular and multicellular.
Parasites that live in the body are called ectoparasites. This species includes bed bugs, lice and similar scabies pathogens. Others are called endoparasites because they live inside the human body. These include amoeba, worms and insect larvae.
The latter are the most dangerous, while the former are simply unpleasant.
Internal parasites often cause serious illness and are more difficult to get rid of than external parasites. Medicine has already found many ways to get rid of them and also has a lot of experience in treating parasites in the human body.
Each of the parasites has its ideal place in the human body, where they have all the conditions for a parasitic lifestyle, that is, the nutrients necessary for growth and reproduction. Some of them can move as they grow.
Most of the time, endogenous parasites can be found in the intestines, muscles, blood, lungs, heart and liver. Some species even live in nerve tissue. Ectogenic parasites live on the skin.
How can parasites enter the body?
The first way is the ingestion of bacteria into the body with food and water. Sometimes it is infected or contaminated, so microorganisms start to multiply there. Insects like flies and cockroaches also carry a lot of harmful bacteria. Some types of food are contaminated initially - raw fish or raw meat. Often the meat of cattle is infected with parasites, so a person does not eat it raw.
The second is domestic contact. In this case, the parasites are transmitted from humans, through household items or animals. Often infectious bacteria are carried by stray animals - dogs, cats, birds and mice.
The third is blood transfer by mosquitoes. In CIS countries this rarely happens, most often infected mosquitoes live in warm countries. The fourth is the independent entry of some insects into the human body. They gnaw through the skin and penetrate muscle tissue or blood, and then go where they have the best living conditions.
What are the symptoms of parasites?
Parasites in the human body can cause completely different symptoms - from insomnia, which is often unnoticeable, to skin formations. For example, ectoparasites often cause skin lesions and scabies. Endoparasites that live in the lungs often cause coughing. When they are in the intestines, you may be bothered by constipation, vomiting, or diarrhea.
But the general signs of the presence of parasites in humans are as follows: insomnia, general fatigue, headaches, and sometimes allergic reactions. People often use folk remedies, but they are not always pleasant, for example, not everyone can drink a glass of sauerkraut juice with worms.
Consider the symptoms in the presence of different types of parasites:
- The most common parasites for humans are worms or roundworms. They cause indigestion and upset stomach, irritability, insomnia and anxiety attacks, sometimes dizziness. Detecting them is quite easy, you can see them in the stool or get a positive result for a worm egg;
- Next comes a very dangerous parasite - the tapeworm. It often causes discomfort or pain in the abdomen, diarrhea, brutal appetite (you eat a lot, but do not increase your weight), liver pain and the presence of your worms in the stool;
- in the presence of worms in a person, he may notice loss of appetite, insomnia, nervousness and itching in the anus.
Why are parasites dangerous?
They disrupt the functioning of organs, cause inflammatory processes in the tissues and destroy them. They produce toxic substances that destroy the body.
A pest that parasitizes you can cause a lack of vitamins, general weakening and decreased immunity in adults and children. The presence of such a parasite in children is very dangerous, as it greatly slows down their development. It is often difficult to get rid of parasites in the body, as they tend to adapt to their environment and do not want to leave their usual home.
How to treat parasites?
To get rid of parasites, you must first consult a doctor. He will prescribe a certain drug or other more natural remedy.
There is also treatment with folk remedies, but it is recommended that it be carried out in symbiosis with drugs.
medical treatment
Doctors long ago discovered an effective treatment against parasites in humans.
Some medications come in pill form, while others come in other forms, such as liquids. Dosage is determined only by the doctor, it is not possible to do it yourself without side effects. In addition, the drugs have differences in the age of the patients for whom they are intended.
In the modern world, there is another way to cure people with parasites. It is called oxygen and appeared relatively recently, it is performed only in hospitals under the supervision of a doctor. First, the patient is cleansed of the intestines with an enema, then oxygen is introduced by the tube method. After filling the stomach and rectum with oxygen, the parasites die. With this method, the cured patient does not receive any side effects, unlike the medicated method.
Parasites: quick treatment with folk remedies
Various parasites in the human body can be removed with folk remedies, even some doctors recommend some natural remedies to get rid of these pests.
Pumpkin seeds are the most famous remedy for treating parasites. They contain many nutrients that are beneficial to humans and their intestinal microflora, but are harmful to protozoan pests. To be completely healed, eat 20 grams of pumpkin seeds on an empty stomach in the morning, and after 30-40 minutes, drink a laxative.
Vegetable oils can be used as natural laxatives, the most common being castor oil.
For the treatment of parasites with folk remedies in adults, anthelmintic teas are used, and after cleaning the intestines with an enema. To prepare a decoction, you can take absinthe, cloves, celandine or tansy. They all have a sharp, bitter taste, making the environment in the intestines unsuitable for pests.
However, be careful what herbs you use, many of them are prohibited for pregnant women.
Diet to avoid parasites
Anyone who has encountered the presence of parasites knows the importance of rehabilitation and prevention. For this, the attending physician often prescribes a special diet. Separate meals are recommended, when you eat carbohydrates and proteins separately from each other. Because if we eat them together, the stomach doesn't get an accurate signal of what needs to be digested and what enzymes are needed for it.
Incompletely digested food is an excellent way for parasites to feed themselves so they can continue to live and develop.
For example, meat, vegetables should not be eaten with potatoes, pasta or bread. It is better to combine them with vegetables. If you want to eat carbs and protein, you should take a 2-hour break between taking them.
Can't give up your favorite sandwiches?
Eat them with grilled vegetables. Eat cereal often, they perfectly cleanse the body.
cleaning the body
To cleanse and expel unwanted parasites from the body, some plants that can often be found on sale in pharmacies, in the market or in the supermarket will help.
For the first method, you will need the shell of green walnuts. If you live in a warm region, you can certainly find walnut trees and harvest unripe fruit from them. Take 15 walnuts, remove the green shell and fill them with vodka. Leave to infuse for a month in a dark, dry place. Then, dilute a drop of tincture in half a glass of water and drink.
Gradually increase the dosage by one drop each day for seven days. After that, also gradually increase the intake to 2 teaspoons, take the medicine a few times a day. Then continue to take 2 teaspoons of the tincture twice a day throughout the year. This is quite a long course of cleaning, but very effective.
An easier way is to use clove seeds. They need to be ground to a powdery state. Just take a teaspoon and a half of this powder. Over the course of ten days, gradually reduce the dosage, at the end of the period it should reach one teaspoon.
To cleanse the intestines, several freshly squeezed juices will help. For example, carrots, cucumbers, lemons, beets, apples - all these juices, when consumed on an empty stomach, create a certain environment in the stomach and remove parasites from the body.