Parasites are disease-causing organisms that can live in humans, animals, and even some plants. There are many species in the world that penetrate the host's body, feed on its nutrients, actively multiply and release waste into the body, and cause all kinds of diseases.
Worms are often found in humans. These are mainly worms of different lengths and sizes that live in the intestines of vertebrates. However, some helminths can migrate throughout the body by penetrating muscles, liver, heart, joints, lungs and even the brain.
Worms damage the host's body, so everyone should know how to determine the presence of parasites in the body. However, many people do not want to go to the hospital, waste their time and unnecessarily get tested for helminths.
In this case, a person can find out whether there are parasites in the body by focusing on an important criterion, such as the characteristic symptoms that develop with a particular type of helminthiasis. What if they are not there? It doesn't happen!
However, in the early stages of helminthic invasion, signs of vital activity of foreign microorganisms are poorly expressed or absent. The clinical picture is intensified and pronounced only when helminths are actively developing, because their larvae can not be parasitized in humans.
How to determine the presence of worms in the body without medical examination?
Different types of parasites cause the host's characteristic symptoms. If they are detected in time and properly deciphered, it will allow the detection of infection even at an early stage.
Thus, the possibility of misdiagnosis is minimized, which will allow for correct and effective deworming using folk or medical antiparasitic agents.
Thus, in order to identify parasites in the human body, it is necessary to pay attention to the symptoms:
- Grinding teeth at night.
- Allergic skin rashes - acne, pimples, urticaria, herpes on the lips, eczema, red spots, papillomas, neurodermatitis, psoriasis, etc.
- Development of diseases of the upper respiratory tract (bronchitis, pneumonia, runny nose), characteristic of ascariasis and strongyloidiasis.
- Swelling and diarrhea appear due to the fact that long worms interfere with the secretion of bile and pancreatic juice.
- Constipation occurs when worms form a ball in the intestines that prevents passage.
- Anxiety in joints and muscles due to parasite migration.
- Severe irritation provoked by painful symptoms.
- Persistent dry cough that cannot be treated with standard antitussive drugs.
An increase in body temperature to subfebrile values is also observed. Causes of this condition can be allergies, blood intoxication, neurological disorders, disorders of internal organs and brain, and anemia syndrome.
In addition, the human worm significantly reduces its immunity, as a result of which the patient often suffers from colds. The patient also develops long-term depression as a result of intoxication.
Characteristic symptoms of helminthiasis are nausea and vomiting, which are caused by the release of toxins. In addition, certain types of worms can live in the human body, producing special hormones that affect the intestinal microflora that cause diarrhea.
However, in some cases, such symptoms are not related to helminthiasis, because they resemble the symptoms of food poisoning. However, this can become a serious problem, because if treatment is started too late, the parasites will find time to do so much damage to the organs and systems of their owners.
Thus, some kind of test should be performed to detect helminthiasis at home. To do this, you need to answer the following questions:
- Is there itching in the anus at night?
- Are the lymph nodes swollen?
- Do you have skin rashes?
- How often does insomnia occur?
- Do you feel vomiting and nausea?
- Do you have joint and muscle pain?
- How often does flatulence develop?
- How often does the taste of bitterness appear in the mouth?
If a person answers these questions seven times, then it can be claimed that his body is infected with worms.
How to determine the type of helminthiasis with symptoms?
At home, you can determine which helminths live in the human body. However, this can be done only when it reaches the active stage of development of parasitosis.
Ascariasis and diphyllobotriasis are characterized by the most common neurological symptoms in young patients. Increased aggressive behavior and irritability are due to the effects of toxins on the nervous system. For similar reasons, an infected person develops migraines and dizziness.
As a rule, trichinosis is accompanied by joint and muscle pain, as well as swelling of the face and eyelids. This is due to the life characteristics of Trichinella living in skeletal muscle. If you eat the meat of a wild animal or poorly processed pork, you can become infected with this parasite.
Giardiasis affects the function of the liver and kidneys and causes all kinds of allergic reactions. In addition, some people suffer from arthritis, which develops as a result of intoxication when the body is damaged by lamblia. In addition, in an invasive patient, immunity is weakened, against the background of which the following diseases develop:
- sinusitis;
- stomatitis;
- bacterial vaginosis, etc.
A characteristic symptom of pinworm enterobiasis is itching in the anal canal. In addition, most infected people suffer from gastrointestinal disorders.
Anemia syndrome is characteristic of schistosomiasis. There are also manifestations of dysbiosis (pathogenic microorganisms inhibit the favorable microflora).
With chloronchiasis, fasciellosis and opisthorchiasis, the gallbladder is affected and icteric syndrome develops. In addition, the liver and spleen grow against the background of the course of these helminthiases.
Strongyloidiasis manifests itself with various symptoms. Thus, with its development, there are disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, dyspeptic disorders and allergic manifestations.
How to determine the presence of helminth eggs without laboratory conditions? When worms are in the reproductive stage, it is very easy to learn that they are present in the body. To do this, you need to analyze the eggs of parasites.
With the development of opisthorchiasis, you can conduct an independent study at home. For this purpose, an adhesive tape or tape should be applied to the skin in the anal area.
It is better to do this procedure immediately after waking up in the morning. If a person has opisthorchiasis, their eggs will be identified on the adhesive surface of the tape.
Laboratory methods for the detection of parasites
If a patient has more than three characteristic signs of helminthiasis, he or she should contact a medical facility to determine the presence of parasites in the home to be confirmed by a laboratory.
If helminthic infestation is suspected, the first step is to examine the stool. This allows the identification of tapeworms, round helminths and flukes eggs. However, tests should be performed three times a few days to confirm the diagnosis.
A scraping is performed near the anus to detect enterobiasis. Also, one of the most accurate and convenient tests for the patient is ELISA, which allows the detection of antibodies produced by the body when parasitizing pathogenic microorganisms.
Sometimes bioresonance diagnostics are performed to study the frequency of parasites. This method is very informative, because it determines the condition of the body as a whole. In addition to parasites, such research allows us to study the state of immunity that weakens it, to identify other diseases, as well as pathogenic fungi, bacteria and viruses.