Worms in children – fairly common, since they are more vulnerable to the effects of the environment, and helminths in their bodies fall with dirty hands, through the sand, and poorly washed food (vegetables and fruits). Some helminths are transmitted through the blood from mother to child in the uterus, and, therefore, he appears in the light with the parasites that live in the intestine or other organs of digestion.
- The symptoms of the
- Diagnosis and treatment of the
- In the popular medicine
Unfortunately, the parents there is no possibility of protecting your child from the adversity, because the child has worms they may appear after it is purchased contaminated the water, stroking yard a dog or a cat, eats not wash apple and so on, From sick children to healthy only transmit the eggs such worm parasites, such as ostritsy and the dwarfish tsepen – infection by other worms requires the maturation of the eggs of these in the intermediate bodies of the masters (cats, dogs, cattle, fish, etc). Therefore, the spread of other worms problem may occur when consumption of a child of meat or other products that contagious animals, or by direct contact with them.
In a word, the worms in children is difficult to avoid, and even if the parents from a very early age they get used to the child to observe the rules of personal hygiene, anyway the baby can get the disease, the communication with the children in the park, playing in the yard or in the garden of childhood, etc
Often worms in children are found in the newborn and the child is of preschool age. This is due to the lack of creation of the immune system and barrier functions of the gastrointestinal tract.
The prevention of worm invasions (of the infection and its spread) must consist in the fulfillment of these simple activities:
- wash the hands after walking in the street;
- avoid direct contact of the child with the homeless animals (and sometimes and pets, if there is the suspicion that they helminths);
- periodic cleaning in the house with the dust removal and washing of floors;
- thorough washing of fruits and vegetables before consumption, as well as a full heat treatment of the food, such as meat, fish, etc
Also the prevention of the spread of helminths consists in the existence of each member of the family of his hygiene items – towels, soap. It is also important to use individual, spoons, plates, cups and other utensils.
The symptoms of the
The signs of worms in children may be clearly expressed or hidden. According to estimations of experts, 8 out of every 10 children infected with worms, however, in the majority of cases, the symptoms of the disease in any way do not manifest. This does not mean that helminths are not for the children of the threat. On the contrary, a latent form of the disease, when symptoms are absent, it is even more dangerous. In the first place, because in the body of a child, you can occur the processes that cause serious complications in the bottom of the worm invasion, and in the second place, because a child can be a source of infection for others (children, parents), so that the infection can spread quickly.
If you found worms in children, symptoms of the pathology, in the first place, to bring clinical nature. The child will complain of:
- distraction;
- the weakness;
- lethargy;
- irritability;
- kapriznost.
In most cases, the symptoms of worms in children, the parents take a complex nature, trying to transform child, or to apply methods of correction. Most of the specific symptoms, cause infestations in the active period of breeding, in the period of the migration in the body, as well as in cases which become the cause of development of complications in the child.
Of course, each type of helminths may cause your specific symptoms. For example, the main symptom of the pinworm – itching in the anus, which arises in the night. But there are symptoms, inherent to all species of helminths, among which:
- the violation of a night's sleep, gnashing of teeth (at night);
- dyspeptic disorder (constipation, diarrhea, mucus in the stool, blood in stool, etc);
- cramping in the belly button (this area is the place of location of the majority of helminths);
- skin reactions such as atopic dermatitis.
Understand that the child has worms can also when there is cough, not related to the colds of the disease, on the background of well-being (is the migration of some species of helminth in the body), nausea and vomiting, the flatulence, and, of course, to the exit of the parasite along with the fecal masses, which can be seen with the naked eye.
It may seem that the harm to the worms the body of a child is not too important, therefore, to treat the disease optional (supposedly helminths themselves are to perish with the time). However, in reality, to reflect on the question, how to get rid worms in children, should as soon as possible symptoms. Because, otherwise, there is the risk that the baby will lag behind in physical and mental development, as well as what it has to present some of the complications ranging from inflammation of the appendix, and until the acute intestinal obstruction or even intestinal perforation. In addition, according to the doctors, more than half of all diseases of the skin in children are the result of the presence in your body of parasites, whose treatment is not performed.
You must select several groups of symptoms, depending on the de-worming, infected in the body of a child. Therefore, if a child in the body of living worms, of the class of nematodes (round worms), the symptoms are similar to those of the above, but for other helminths may be other specific symptoms, which must be oriented the treatment. So, when whipworm and trihozefaleze the children have a disorder of the chair, with impurities of the blood and mucus in it. It points out the flatulence, vomiting, mental retardation of a child of tender age.
When opistorhoze the child raises the temperature until the sub-febrile indicators, appear skin rashes, increase the lymph nodes and the liver. There is also pain in the stomach and right hypochondrium, nausea and vomiting, disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. In the background of this worm invasion, if it is not treated in time, may develop heavy pancreatitis and other complications.
When the toxocariasis, which is found in children under the age of 4 years, children suffer manifest with allergic cough, they appear with itching eruptions on the skin, as well as the involvement of the lungs, joints, liver and many other organs. If this disease is not treated in time, probably the development of eye damage is irreversible, of chorioretinitis, keratitis and other serious violations.
Diagnosis and treatment of the
Install most of the helminths can, through the analysis of the cala. There is an area of applied research to the enterobiasis (scraping) and an in-depth study of cala in the eggs of the worms. Related to the inspection is in stool systemic. And is also assigned a general analysis of blood.
In some cases, shows a study of blood in the dna of some other species of helminths. But this test is expensive and not always justified, since dna may persist for a long time in the blood, therefore, even if the child does not have worms, the analysis can be positive, if he had some worm occurs an invasion.
The treatment involves using the pads of the worms in children. Unfortunately, the drugs that kill the worms have enough toxic action in the body, so that this treatment is justified only in cases of confirmed diagnosis of helminth infection. Drugs against worms in children are divided into several groups, each of which acts on certain species of helminths.
As already mentioned above, the medication of worms in children covers the physician taking into account multiple features. Determines which drugs have the most damaging effect of the action in some or other infestations, as well as the products that cause the least damage to the baby's body, helping in the shortest possible time to get rid of the disease and the symptoms severe.
The treatment, which allows you to get rid of worms, usually, is done in two phases medications are taken again two weeks after the first course of the reception, which is related to the cycle of development and multiplication of many parasites, and the impossibility of destroying their eggs, when they are in idle state. Unfortunately, in some cases, to get rid of worms, only with the help of a surgical intervention, for example, when there is occlusion of the lumen of the intestine and has developed intestinal obstruction.
The methods of folk medicine in wormer
There are numerous popular methods to get rid of the worms in the shortest possible time, without prejudice to the health of the baby. Of course, the techniques, should be used with caution – it is best to consult with the attending physician, to understand what the ideal or otherwise the tool of the traditional medicine of the worms of children (taking into account the characteristics of your body and state of health).
Popular methods to get rid of parasites are very small children, and the boys of greater age. Thus, the treatment of parasites in the body of the infant may be carried out in this manner: prepares hot garlic in cooking and is used as mikroklizm for the baby. Or newborn is closer to most popular media treatment of the parasites in the body, such as:
- introduction the cloves of garlic in the anus when pinworm;
- carrot juice, administered on an empty stomach with honey;
- an enema with decoction of garlic in the heat of the milk.
Unfortunately, for babies ways to get rid of the worms remedies are not as a lot as they have been denied the receipt of many of the products that affect helminths a detrimental effect. But for the older kids, and adults as well, the ways are multiple and effective, among them:
- the consumption of the infusion of wormwood with the milk;
- the cooking of the inula salicina and celandine in equal proportions;
- reception on an empty stomach hemp oil;
- the consumption of pumpkin seeds.