According to the World Health Organization, more than 4.5 billion people worldwide are infected with parasitic diseases.It's not even every second person, but more!
In developing countries, their prevalence indicators are much higher than between the population of developed countries, which proves the impact of living standards and domestic conditions on these pests.Read the most common of them below.
Bed Errors
Furniture, Wallpaper, Mattress - These are all the little flat insect's favorite habitats known as bed mistakes.They prefer to live next to people or pets to free their shelters at night to fall on the blood of a warm human being.
These mistakes are not carriers of diseases, but can cause an allergic reaction.If the bites are too combined, the infection may fall into the wound.Treat the bite with an antiseptic or take antihistamine.
Lasers
These insects also eat human blood.And contrary to the prevailing considerations, they can live not only on top, but in general, with the whole body.
Lice is the easiest to choose close contact with someone who already has them, and fights with the help of various remedies, including special shampoos.
Scabies mistakes
Barriers are caused by mites that penetrate the skin and lay eggs there.And the infection occurs by prolonged contact with the skin of the patient.
Symptoms of scabs include itching, papulovicular rash, and cortical formation on the affected surface of the skin.It is treated with special drugs.
Pork
This parasite is more often incorporated into the human body, which does not have sufficiently welded pork, but the transmission can also be in contact with an infected person or animal feces.
The parasite affects the intestines and the brain, which causes cystosis - a disease that causes headaches.Depending on the severity of the disease, treatment is either not performed at all, or surgical methods are used.
Parasites are building their lives with us (and even in us), but we do not.
Naegleria fowleri
Naegleria Fowleri is an amoeba who lives in warm fresh water, which is most common in Southeast Asia and enters the human body when swimming and nose are entered.
It causes the primary amo -bacon meningoencephalitis - a disease in which the brain is destroyed.Symptoms of the disease: headache, high fever, vomiting, confusion, seizures, decreased balance and loss of consciousness.At this time, there are only experimental remedies from this disease, so survival is very low.
Round worms
A whole group of worms (ascarids, trichinels, pinworms, etc.).Most of them affect the intestines.But one species that results in parasitization of trichinellosis in the muscles.
Symptoms of such parasite infection: abdominal pain (ascariasis), blood loss and anemia (hokvior), itching in the anus, pain, heat, facial edema, redness of the eye, skin rash (trichinella), mucus, fluid and blood lesions.
You can get rid of such parasites with the help of a drug recommended by your doctor.
The intestinal lamba
If after traveling to nature, you have begun suffering signs such as diarrhea, bloating, seizures, nausea, then - do not go to Fortuneteller - this evil parasite will probably penetrate your body.You can infect food and water, as well as by contact with an infected person or animal.Fortunately, he is treated quickly and not with expensive medicines.
Tranosoma
This parasite causes Shagas disease.The disease is spread by special types of mistakes.Symptoms - heat, fatigue, head and muscle pain, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, eyelid vomiting and edema - are manifested 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 apply to an infected person or animal.Most often, the infection occurs during the bath.Diarrhea, caused by cryptocovernidiums, can last a long time, but most often it does not require treatment.
Plasmodium falciparum
The carriers of this parasite causing malaria are mosquitoes.This type of malaria is considered the most dangerous and causes more death than everyone.
Symptoms are similar to the flu - cold, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting symptoms.A laboratory blood test is needed to determine the diagnosis.The main thing to remember - the sooner the treatment starts, the more patients have a chance to survive.
Trichomonad
This parasite causes a disease called trichomoniasis.Most of the infected symptoms are not.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 affects the colon.In some, the disease is asymptomatic, while others complain of abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Dientamoeba fragilis is found in all regions of the world.Your doctor may prescribe special medicines to combat this microorganism.
Toxoplasm
This parasite at home feels meat, with water and cat feces.In humans, toxoplasm causes a disease with a similar name - toxoplasmosis.And its symptoms sometimes resemble the flu.
In pregnant women and in people with weakened immunity, symptoms can be more serious, such as toxoplasmosis, muscle cysts, brain and more ... eyes can be formed.If necessary, drug treatment is prescribed.
The Guinea's worm
The disease caused by this parasite (its scientific name - dracunculus medinsesis) is virtually unable to find in our time - due to the spread of information on precautions.The parasite enters the human body by absorbing water, in which a large shredded marsh infected with parasite larvae.
In the human body, they grow in the intestines, after which they move into lymph vessels, and from there they penetrate the skin and localize the subcutaneous tissue.Symptoms may include heat, swelling and pain at the site of worm localization.From the moment of infection, before the first symptoms appear, it can pass year by year.And there is no treatment.