According to the World Health Organization, more than 4.5 billion people are infected with parasitic diseases worldwide.This is not every second person, but more!
In developing countries, their prevalence indicators are much higher than among the population of developed countries, which proves the influence of life standards and household conditions in these pests.Read on 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 to fall hot human blood.
These bugs are not disease -bearing but can cause an allergic reaction.If the bites are very combed, an infection may be brought to the wound.Treat the place of the bite with an antiseptic or take an antihistamine.
Lice
These insects also eat human blood.And contrary to the predominant opinion, they can live not only on the head, but in general with the whole body.
Lice are easier to understand closely with someone who already has them and fight with the help of various means, including special shampoos.
Scabies bugs
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.
Symptoms of scabies include itching, papulvesicular rash and the formation of a crust on the affected surface of the skin.It is treated with special drugs.
Pork chain
This parasite enters more often into the human body with non -welded pork sufficiently welded, but transmission is also possible in contact with feces of an infected person or animal.
The parasite affects the gut and the brain, which leads to cysticercosis - a disease that causes headaches.Depending on the severity of the disease, treatment is not performed or surgical methods are used.
Parasites build their lives by our side (and even US), but we don't suspect it.
Naegleria Fowleri
Naegleria Fowleri is a amoeba that lives in fresh hot water, which is more common in Southeast Asia and enters the human body when bathing and water enters the nose.
It causes primary love -loves lovephalitis - a disease in which the brain is destroyed.Symptoms of disease: headache, high temperature, vomiting, confusion, seizures, impaired balance and loss of consciousness.At this time, there are only experimental medications of such a disease;Therefore, survival is extremely low.
Round worms
An entire group of worms (ascarides, trichinelles, pinworms and so on).Most of them affect the gut.But a species that causes tricelelos to parasitize in the muscles.
Symptoms of such parasites infection: abdominal pain (ascarids), blood loss and anemia (sauces), anus itching (worms), pain, heat, facial edema, ocular redness, rash (trichinella), mucus, liquid and liquid in FCES, harm damage.
You can get rid of such parasites with the help of medicines recommended by the doctor.
Lamblia Intestinal
If, after a trip to nature, you have begun to plague signs such as diarrhea, swelling, cramps, nausea, then - don't go to Fortneteller - this evil parasite probably penetrated your body.You can be infected through food and water as well as through contact with infected person or animal.Fortunately, it is treated with medicines quickly and not expensive.
Trypanosoma
This parasite causes a disease of shagos that threatens life.The disease spreads with a special type of bugs.Symptoms - heat, fatigue, pain and muscle, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting and edema of the eyelids - manifest very quickly.
The disease can lead to chronic damage to the heart and intestine.The disease is treated with special medications.
Cryptosporidiums
These parasites affect the gut.They spread through contact with a person or infected animal feces.Most of the time, the infection occurs during the bath.Diarrhea caused by cryptosporidiums can last a long time, but most of the time it does not require treatment.
Plasmodium falciparum
The bearers of this malaria parasite are mosquitoes.This type of malaria is considered the most dangerous and causes more deaths than everyone else.
Symptoms are similar to symptoms of influenza - chills, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting.To establish a diagnosis, a laboratory blood test is required.The main thing to remember is: the sooner the treatment will start, the more the patient has a chance to survive.
Trichomonad
This parasite causes a sexually transmitted disease called trichomoniasis.Most infected symptoms are absent.But some may feel itching, burning or irritation in the genital area.The disease is treated with antibiotics.
Dientamoeba fragilis
Doctors do not yet know how this parasite that affects the colon enters the body.In some, the disease continues asymptomatic, others complain of abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Dentamoeba fragilis is found in all regions of the world.The doctor may prescribe special medications for you to combat this microorganism.
Toxoplasma
This parasite feels at home in meat, water and cat feces.In people, toxoplasma causes a disease with a similar name - toxoplasmosis.And their symptoms sometimes resemble flu.
In pregnant women and people with weakened immunity, symptoms may be more serious, for example with toxoplasmosis, muscles, brain and even ... eyes can form.If necessary, drug treatment is prescribed.
Guinian worm
The disease caused by this parasite (its scientific name - dracunculus medinsesis) is not practically found in our time - due to the dissemination of information about precautions.The parasite enters the human body with the absorption of water, in which there were large lagostins infected with parasites larvae.
In the human body, they grow in the gut, after which they migrate to the lymphatic vessels and, from there, penetrate the skin and are located in the subcutaneous tissue.Among the symptoms, there may be heat, edema and pain at the location site of the worm.But from the moment of infection, to the appearance of the first symptoms, a year may pass.And there is no treatment.