According to the World Health Organization, more than 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 among the population of developed countries, demonstrating the influence of living standards and domestic conditions in these pests.Read about the most common of them below.
Backpacks
Furniture, tapestry paper, mattresses: All these are favorite habitats of small flat insects, known as bed bugs.They prefer to live with people or pets to freely leave their shelters at night to fall warm human blood.
These errors are not disease carriers, but they can cause an allergic reaction.If the bites are very combed, an infection can be taken to the wound.Try the place of the bite with an antiseptic or take an antihistamine.
Louse
These insects also eat human blood.And unlike the predominant opinion, they can live not only in the head, but in general with the whole body.
The lice are easier to collect in close contact with someone who already has them, and fight with the help of various media, including special shampoos.
Sarna buges
The barriers are caused by ticks that penetrate the skin and put eggs there.And the infection occurs with prolonged contact with the skin of a sick person.
The symptoms of scabies include itching, papulovesicular eruption and the formation of a cortex on the affected surface of the skin.It is treated with special medications.
Pig chain
This parasite enters the human body with pork not sufficiently welded, but the transmission is also possible in contact with the stool of an infected person or animal.
The parasite affects the intestines and the brain, which leads to albicercosis, a disease that causes headaches.Depending on the severity of the disease, the treatment is not carried out at all or surgical methods are used.
The parasites build their lives by their side (and even in us), but we don't suspect this.
Naegleria Fowleri
Naegleria Fowleri is an amoeba that lives in warm fresh water, which is more common in Southeast Asia and enters the human body when bathing and the water entering the nose.
It causes the primary meningencephalitis of amo -bacon, a disease in which the brain is destroyed.Symptoms of the disease: headache, high temperature, vomiting, confusion, seizures, deteriorated balance and loss of consciousness.At this time, there are only experimental medications of such disease, so survival with it is extremely low.
Round worms
A complete group of worms (ascárides, trichinelos, plug worms, etc.).Most of them affect the intestines.But a species that causes parasite tricinelosis in the muscles.
The symptoms of infection with such parasites: abdominal pain (ascárides), blood loss and anemia (Hok worms), itching in the anus (pinholler worms), pain, heat, facial edema, ocular redness, cutaneous rash(Belí).
It can get rid of such parasites with the help of drugs recommended by the doctor.
Intestinal Lamblia
If, after a trip to nature, you began to torment signs such as diarrhea, swelling, cramps, nausea, then do not go to the Adforune: this evil parasite has probably penetrated your body.It can be infected through food and water, as well as through contact with the feces of an infected person or animal.Fortunately, it is quickly and not to expensive medications.
Tripanosome
This parasite causes a disease of Shagas that threaten life.The disease spreads with a special type of insects.Symptoms (heat, fatigue, head pain and muscle, eruption, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting and edema of the eyelids) manifest very quickly.
The disease can cause chronic damage to the heart and intestines.The disease is treated with special medications.
Cryptosporidiums
These parasites affect the intestines.They propagate through contact with feces of an infected person or animal.Very often, the infection occurs during the bathroom.The diarrhea caused by cryptosporidiums can last a long time, but most of the time 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 everyone else.
The symptoms are similar to the symptoms of influenza: chills, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting.To establish a diagnosis, a laboratory blood analysis is required.The main thing to remember is that the treatment begins before, the more the patient has the opportunity to survive.
Tricomonada
This parasite causes a disease that is transmitted sexually 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 still do not know how this parasite that affects the colon enters the body.In some, the disease proceeds asymptomatic, others complain about abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Dientamoeba Fragilis is found in all regions of the world.The doctor can prescribe special medications to combat this microorganism.
Toxoplasma
This parasite feels at home in flesh, water and cat stool.In people, toxoplasma causes a disease with a similar name: toxoplasmosis.And their symptoms sometimes resemble the flu.
In pregnant women and people with weakened immunity, the symptoms can be more serious, for example, with toxoplasmosis, cysts in the muscles, the brain and even ... the eyes can form.If necessary, drug treatment is prescribed.
Guinean worm
The disease caused by this parasite (its scientific name - Draccunculus measurements) is practically not found in our time, due to the propagation of information on precautions.The parasite enters the human body with the absorption of water, in which there were crabs of Río Grandes infected with parasite larvae.
In the human body, they grow in the intestines, 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 in the place of location of the worm.But from the moment of infection, until the appearance of the first symptoms, it can spend a year.And there is no treatment.