Worms in children is quite common, because they are more exposed to the environment, and the worms in your body fall in with dirty hands, using sand and of evil wash food (vegetables and fruits). Some helminths can be transmitted through the blood of the mother to child in the uterus, and therefore, he has already born with parasites that live in your intestines or other organs digestive.
- Symptoms
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Traditional medicine
Unfortunately, the parents have no possibility to protect his son from this plague, as the worms can appear after purchase in the polluted pond, Pat a domestic cat or a dog, eat not wash the Apple, etc. Of patients baby healthy eggs are only transmitted helminthic parasites such as pinworm and dwarf tapeworm – infection with other helminths requires the maturation of these eggs in the bodies of intermediate hosts (cats, dogs, cows, fish, etc.). Therefore, the infection with other helminths may occur in the use of meat boy or other products of infectious diseases of animals or by direct contact with them.
In short, worms in children are difficult to avoid, and even if parents from an early age encourage your child to respect the rules of personal hygiene, although the baby can catch an infection, dealing with the kids in the Yard, playing in the yard or in the home of children, etc.
Most often worms in children are detected in the newborn age and preschool. This is because of the insufficient development of the immune system and barrier function of the gastrointestinal tract.
Prevention of worm infestation (infection and dissemination) must comply with these simple measures:
- the washing of the hands after walking in the street;
- prevention of contact of the child with the street animals (and, sometimes, home-made if you suspect you have worms);
- regular house cleaning with removing the dust and washing the floors;
- wash fruits and vegetables before eating them, a complete heat treatment of food products such as meat, fish, etc.
The prevention of the spread of worms is to have each member of the family their hygiene items – towels, soap. It is also important to use different spoons, plates, cups and other Cutlery.
Symptoms
Signs of worms in children may be pronounced or hidden. According to experts, 8 out of every 10 children infected with helminths, however, in the majority of cases, the symptoms do not manifest. This is not to say that the worms do not pose a threat to children d'. On the contrary, the latent form of the disease, when the symptoms are absent, it is even more dangerous. First, because the child's body may be the processes that cause serious complications in the background of worm infestation, and secondly, because a child can be a source of infection to other people (children, parents), the infection can quickly spread.
If you have found worms in children the symptoms of the pathology of the first, will be of a clinical nature. This child complain of:
- distraction;
- weakness;
- lethargy;
- irritability;
- moodiness.
In the majority of cases the symptoms of worms in children, parents to take charge of the complex, in an effort to achieve the rehabilitation of the child or to apply corrective measures methods. More specific symptoms are caused by a helminth infection during active breeding season, during migration through the body, and also in those cases in which the cause of complications in children.
Of course, each species of helminths may cause your specific symptoms. For example, the main symptom of pinworm severe itching in the anal area that occurs in the night. But there are symptoms common to all types of worms, including:
- sleep at night, tooth grinding (night);
- diarrhoeal disorders (constipation, diarrhea, mucus in the feces, blood in feces, etc.);
- cramping pain in the belly button area (this area is the location of most of the helminths);
- skin reactions such as atopic dermatitis.
To understand the baby worms can also be in the presence of a cough not associated with colds, in the background of well-being (happens when migrating certain types of worms in the body), nausea and vomiting, flatulence, and, of course, to the exit of the parasite, together with the faeces that can be seen with the naked eye.
It may seem that the harm caused by helminths of the child, the body is not too important, therefore, to treat the disease or not (for example, the worms themselves will die over time). However, in reality reflect on the question, how to you get rid of worms in children should do as soon as possible, as soon as the first symptoms. Because, otherwise, one runs the risk that the child slouch in the physical and mental development, and also that he developed some complications ranging from inflammation of the Appendix and ending with intestinal obstruction acute or even perforation intestinal tract. In addition, according to the doctors, more than half of all diseases of the skin in children are caused by the presence in their bodies of parasites, the treatment of which is not carried out.
There were several groups of symptoms, depending on the helminth parasites in the body of the child. So, if the child is living in the body of the class of worms, nematodes (worms), the symptoms will be similar to the previous one, but for other helminths may be other specific symptoms, which must focus the treatment. Therefore, when the whipworm and trihozefaleze in children, there is a disorder of the chair, with blood and mucus in it. It is also noted abdominal distension, vomiting, and mental development of the child.
In opisthorchiasis, the child, the temperature rises up to sub-febrile indicators that appear on the skin, skin rashes, enlarged lymph nodes and the liver. Also have pain in the stomach and right hypochondrium, nausea and vomiting, gastrointestinal disorders. Against this helminthic infection, if not treated, may develop severe pancreatitis and other complications.
When toxocariasis, which is found in children up to 4 years, children suffer from a pronounced allergic cough, have an itchy rash on the skin and affects the lungs, joints, liver and many other organs. If the disease is not treated, it may develop irreversible damage to the eyes, chorioretinitis, keratitis and other serious violations.
Diagnosis and treatment
To install most of helminthiasis can pass a stool. There is a brief study of used in enterobioze (scraping) and an in-depth study of a feces on eggs of worms. The companion of the survey is the analysis of a feces on a dysbacteriosis. And appointed by the General analysis of blood.
In some cases, shows the study of the DNA of the blood of certain species of helminths. But this analysis is expensive and not always justified, since the DNA can be a long time remain in the blood, therefore, even if the child does not have worms, the analysis can be positive, if he ever hurt one way or another infestation parasitic.
The treatment consists in the use of the pills for worms in children. Unfortunately, the drugs that kill helminths, have a fairly high toxic effect on the whole body, so that this treatment is justified only in cases of a confirmed diagnosis of helminthiasis. Cure of worms in children are divided into several groups, each of which acts on certain types of worms.
As mentioned above, drugs against worms for children selected by the physician taking into account various characteristics. It is determined that the drugs have more harmful effect on certain helminth infection, and what drugs will cause less damage to the body of the baby, helping him to get rid quickly of the disease and the symptoms severe.
Treatment to get rid of worms, usually carried out in two stages – the drug is taken again two weeks after the first course of treatment, which is associated with the cycle of development and multiplication of many parasites, and the inability to destroy their eggs when they are inactive. Unfortunately, in some cases, to get rid of the worms is possible only through surgical intervention, for example, when there is a blockage of the lumen of the intestine and developed intestinal obstruction.
The methods of traditional medicine in the fight against the worms
There are many folk methods to get rid of worms in the shortest time possible without compromising the ability of the health of the baby. Of course, the traditional methods should be used with caution – it is best to consult with your doctor, to see something of traditional medicine for worms for children (taking into account the peculiarities of your body and its state of health).
People methods to get rid of parasites, as well as very young children and older children. Thus, the treatment of parasites in the body children can be done in this way: the preparation of the hot garlic broth and used as microclysters for the baby. Or adapt it to a baby even this kind of folk remedies for the treatment of parasites in the body, such as:
- introduction cloves garlic into the anus at pinworm;
- carrot juice taken on an empty stomach with honey;
- enema with decoction of garlic in warm milk.
Unfortunately, for children of ways to get rid of pinworms remedies popular not so much, because they are prohibited from the acceptance of many elements that affect helminth devastating effect. But for older children and adults, folk ways are numerous and effective, among them:
- the use of the infusion of wormwood with milk;
- a decoction of elecampane and celandine in equal proportions;
- fasting hemp oil;
- the use of pumpkin seeds.