Parasites are the simplest types of bacteria that live off the nutrients of another organism, parasitizing it. They feed on prepared 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. Most often, these bacteria are found in children, since they do not have such a high level of immunity, while they have a lot of contact with animals and some dirty things.
Do you remember that a small child often puts 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 should do to prevent harmful bacteria from entering your body.
Parasitic bacteria in the human body, in which organs can they live?
The simplest bacteria are found in the human body and on its skin, they can be unicellular and multicellular.
Parasites that live in the body are called ectoparasites. This species includes bedbugs, lice, and similar scabies pathogens. Others are called endoparasites because they live inside the human body. These include amoebas, 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 often, endogenous parasites can be found in the intestines, muscles, blood, lungs, heart, and liver. Some species even live in nerve tissues. 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 begin to multiply there. Insects like flies and cockroaches also carry many harmful bacteria. Some types of food are initially contaminated: raw fish or raw meat. Very often, meat from cattle is infected with parasites, so a person does not eat it raw.
The second is contact-household. In this case, the parasites are transmitted from humans, through household items or animals. Most often, infectious bacteria are carried by street animals - dogs, cats, birds and rats.
The third is blood transfer by mosquitoes. In the CIS countries, this rarely happens, most of the infected mosquitoes live in hot countries. The fourth is the independent entry of some insects into the human body. They gnaw through the skin and into muscle tissue or blood, 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 imperceptible, to formations on the skin. For example, ectoparasites often cause skin lesions and mange. 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 the following: insomnia, general fatigue, headaches and sometimes allergic reactions. Quite often, people 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 roundworms or roundworms. They cause indigestion and stomach pain, irritability, insomnia and anxiety attacks, sometimes dizziness. Detecting them is quite easy, you can see them in the feces or get a positive test result for a worm egg;
- Then comes a rather dangerous parasite - the tapeworm. It usually causes discomfort or pain in the abdomen, diarrhea, a brutal appetite (he eats a lot, but does not gain weight), pain in the liver and the presence of his worms in the stool;
- in the presence of pinworms in a person, you may notice loss of appetite, insomnia, nervousness, and itching in the anus.
Why are parasites dangerous?
They disrupt the functioning of organs, provoke inflammatory processes in the tissues and destroy them. They produce toxic substances that destroy the body.
A pest that parasitizes you can lead to a lack of vitamins, a general weakening and a decrease in immunity in both adults and children. The presence of such a parasite in children is very dangerous, since it greatly slows down their development. Very often it is difficult to get rid of parasites in the body, since 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 another more natural remedy.
There is also a treatment with home remedies, but it is recommended to do it in symbiosis with medications.
medical treatment
Doctors have long found an effective treatment against parasites in humans.
Some medications come in tablet form, while others come in other forms, such as liquids. The 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 it appeared relatively recently, it is carried out only in hospitals under the supervision of a doctor. First, the patient is cleansed from the intestines with an enema, then oxygen is introduced using the probe method. After filling the stomach and rectum with oxygen, the parasites die. With this method, the cured patient does not get any side effects, unlike the drug method.
Parasites: quick treatment with folk remedies.
Various parasites in the human body can be eliminated with home remedies, even some doctors recommend some natural remedies to get rid of such pests.
Pumpkin seeds are the most famous remedy to treat parasites. They contain many nutrients that are beneficial to humans and their intestinal microflora, but are detrimental to protozoan pests. To be completely cured, eat 20 grams of pumpkin seeds on an empty stomach in the morning, and then after 30-40 minutes take 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 cleansing the intestines with an enema. To prepare a decoction, you can take wormwood, cloves, celandine or tansy. All of them have a strong and bitter taste, thus making the environment in the intestines unsuitable for pests.
However, be careful about the herbs you use, many of them are prohibited for pregnant women.
Diet to prevent parasites.
Anyone who has ever encountered parasites knows how important rehabilitation and prevention are. For this, the attending physician often prescribes a special diet. Separate meals are recommended, when carbohydrates and proteins are eaten separately. Because if we eat them together, the stomach does not receive a precise signal of what needs to be digested and what enzymes are needed for it.
Incompletely digested food is a great way for parasites to feed, so they can continue to live and thrive.
For example, meat, legumes should not be eaten with potatoes, pasta or bread. It is better to combine them with vegetables. If you want to eat carbohydrates and proteins, you must take a break of 2 hours between taking them.
Can't give up your favorite sandwiches?
Eat them with grilled vegetables. Eat cereals often, they perfectly cleanse the body.
body cleansing
To cleanse and expel unwanted parasites from the body, some plants that can often be found for sale in pharmacies, on 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 collect green fruits from them. Take 15 walnuts, remove the green shell and fill them with vodka. Leave to infuse for a month, in a dark and dry place. Then dilute a drop of tincture in half a glass of water and drink.
Gradually increase the dose by one drop each day for seven days. After that, also gradually increase the intake to 2 teaspoons, take the medicine a couple of times a day. Then continue taking 2 teaspoons of the tincture, twice a day, throughout the year. This is quite a long cleaning course, but very effective.
An easier way is to use clove seeds. They need to be ground to a state of powder. It is enough to take one and a half teaspoons of this powder. Over the course of ten days, gradually reduce the dose, by the end of the period it should reach one teaspoon.
To cleanse the intestines, various freshly squeezed juices will help. For example, carrot, cucumber, lemon, beet, apple - all these juices, when consumed on an empty stomach, create a certain environment in the stomach and remove parasites from the body.