According to the World Health Organization, more than 4.5 billion people have been infected with parasitic diseases in the world.This is not every second person, but more!
In developing countries, prevalence indicators are much higher than the population of developed countries, which prove the impact of living standards and household conditions on these pests.Read the most common one below.
Bedding
Furniture, wallpaper, mattress - all of these are favorite habitats of small flat insects, called bedding.Rather, they live with people or pets to get out of their shelter at night to fall on warm human blood.
These errors are not carriers of diseases, but can cause an allergic reaction.If the bites are very combed, the infection can be brought into the wound.Treat the bite location with antiseptic or take antihistamine.
Lice
These insects also eat human blood.And, unlike the ruler's opinion, they can live not only on his head but also on the whole body.
The easiest way to get the lice through close contact with someone who already has a variety of tools, including special shampoos, can fight.
Scabies errors
The obstacles are caused by ticks that penetrate the skin and egg eggs.And the infection occurs with longer contact with the skin of the sick person.
Symptoms of cancer include itching, papulisical rash and formation of bark on the affected surface of the skin.Treated with special medicines.
Pork chain
This parasite often does not enter the human body with a sufficiently welded pork, but is also possible in contact with the infected person or animal.
The parasite affects the intestines and the brain, which leads to cysticercosis - a disease that causes headaches.Depending on the severity of the disease, treatment is either not carried out at all or surgical methods are used.
The parasites build their lives next to (and even within us), but we do not suspect it.
Naegleria Fowleri
Naegleria Fowleri is an amoeba that lives in warm fresh water, which is most common in Southeast, and enters the human body when it comes to bathing and water into the nose.
It causes primary AMO -Bacon meningoencephalitis - a disease in which the brain is destroyed.Symptoms of the disease: headache, high temperature, vomiting, confusion, cramps, loss of balance and awareness.At this time, there are only experimental drugs from such a disease, so survival is extremely low.
Round worms
A whole group of worms (Ascarides, Trichinelles, Pinworms and so on).Most of them affect the intestines.But a species that causes trichinellosis in the muscles.
Symptoms of infection of such parasites are: abdominal pain (ascarides), blood loss and anemia (hockey), itching (Pinworms), pain, heat, face edema, eye red, rash (trichinella), mucosa, fluid and blood.
You can get rid of such parasites with the help of drugs recommended by your doctor.
Intestinal
If, after traveling to nature, you started torture signs such as diarrhea, bloating, cramps, nausea, then - don't go to fortuneteller - this evil parasite probably penetrated your body.It can become infected through food and water, as well as contact with the stools of an infected person or animal.Fortunately, they are treated quickly and not expensive.
Triple
This parasite causes a life -threatening Shagas disease.The disease spreads with special types of errors.Symptoms - heat, fatigue, head and muscle pain, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting and eyelid edema - are manifested very quickly.
The disease can cause chronic damage to the heart and intestine.The disease is treated with special medicines.
Cryptosporidia
These parasites affect the intestines.They spread through contact with the stool of an infected person or animal.Most often the infection during bathing.Diarrhea caused by cryptosporidia can take a long time, but most often do not require treatment.
Plasmodium falciparum
The parasitic carriers of this are malaria mosquitoes.This type of malaria is considered the most dangerous and causes more death than everyone else.
The symptoms are similar to the symptoms of influenza - chills, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting.Laboratory blood tests are required to make a diagnosis.The most important thing to remember is: the sooner the treatment starts, the more the patient has a chance to survive.
Trichomon
This parasite causes a disease that is called sexually trichomoniasis.Most infected symptoms are missing.But some can itch, burn or feel irritation in the sexual area.The disease is treated with antibiotics.
Dientamoeba
Doctors still do not know that this colon -affecting parasite enters the body.Some are asymptomatic, while others complain of abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Dientamoeba fragilis is located in all regions of the world.The doctor may prescribe special drugs to overcome microorganisms.
Toxoplasma
This parasite feels at home in meat, water and cat feces.In humans, toxoplasma causes a disease with a similar name - toxoplasmosis.And his symptoms sometimes resemble the flu.
In pregnant women and people with weakened immunity, the symptoms may be more severe, such as toxoplasmosis, cysts in the muscles, brain and even eyes.If necessary, drug treatment is prescribed.
Guinea
The disease caused by this parasite (scientific name - Dracunculus medinsesis) is virtually not found in our age due to the spread of information on precautions.The parasitic water enters the human body with absorption of water, which contained large -soaked crabs infected with parasitic larvae.
In the human body they grow in the gut, then the lymph migrates into vessels and penetrates the skin and localized in the subcutaneous tissue.Symptoms may be heat, edema and pain instead of localization of the worm.But from the moment of infection to the first symptoms, one year passes.And no treatment.