According to the World Health Organization, more than 4.5 billion people are infected with parasitic diseases in the world.This is not even every second person, but more!
In developing countries, their prevalence indicators are much higher than among the population of developed countries, which proves the influence of living standards and domestic conditions in these parasites.Read about the most common of them below.
Bed bugs
Furniture, upholstery, mattresses - all of which are favorite habitats of small flat insects, known as bugs of beds.They prefer to live next to humans or pets to get out of their shelters at night to drop hot human blood.
These errors are not diseases of diseases, but they can cause an allergic reaction.If the bites are very combed, an infection may enter the wound.Treat the bite position with antiseptic or get antihistamine.
Lice
These insects also eat human blood.And unlike the prevailing opinion, they can live not only on the head, but in general with the whole body.
Lice is easier to get in touch with someone who already has them and fight with the help of various media, including special shampoos.
Scabies
The obstacles are caused by ticks that penetrate the skin and put eggs there.And infection occurs with prolonged contact with the skin of a sick person.
Symptoms of scabies include itching, pararm rash and crust formation on the affected surface of the skin.Treated with special medicines.
Pork chain
This parasite most often enters the human body with insufficiently welded pork meat, but transmission is also possible in contact with feces of contaminated person or animal.
The parasite affects the intestines and the brain, which leads to cysticosis - a disease that causes headaches.Depending on the severity of the disease, treatment is either not performed at all or surgical methods.
Pests build their lives next to us (and even within us), but we do not suspect this.
Naegleria Fowleri
Naegleria Fowleri is a amoeba that lives in hot fresh water, which is more common in Southeast Asia and enters the human body when bathrooms and water enters the nose.
Causes primary amo -bacon meningoncephaalitis - a disease in which the brain is destroyed.Symptoms of the disease: headache, high temperature, vomiting, confusion, convulsions, impaired balance and loss of consciousness.At the moment, there are only experimental drugs from such a disease, so survival with it is extremely low.
Round worms
An entire group of worms (Ascarides, Trichinelles, pinworms and so on).Most of them affect the intestines.But a species that causes trichinels is parasitized in the muscles.
Symptoms of infection with such parasites: abdominal pain (ascensions), blood loss and anemia (hokworms), anus itching (tower), pain, heat, facial edema, eye redness, skin rash (hair)
You can get rid of such parasites with the help of drugs recommended by the doctor.
Intestinal
If, after a journey to nature, you started torturing such signs as diarrhea, bloating, cramps, nausea, then - don't go to Fortuneteller - this bad parasite has probably penetrated your body.You can be infected through food and water, as well as by contact with infected person or animal feces.Fortunately, it is treated quickly and not expensive drugs.
Pryer
This parasite causes a shagas disease that threatens life.The disease spreads with a special type of error.Symptoms - heat, fatigue, head pain and muscle pain, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting and eyelash edema - occur very quickly.
The disease can lead to chronic damage to the heart and intestines.The disease is treated with special medicines.
Cryptocrusically
These parasites affect the intestines.Spread through contact with feces of infected person or animal.Most of the time, infection occurs during swimming.Cryptosporidiums diarrhea may take a long time, but more 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 deaths than everyone else.
The symptoms are similar to the symptoms of influenza - chills, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting.Laboratory blood test is required to create a diagnosis.The main thing to remember is - the faster the treatment begins, the more the patient has the opportunity to survive.
Hair
This parasite causes a sexually transmitted disease is called trichomonia.Most infected symptoms are absent.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 enters the body.In some, the disease progresses asymptomatic, others complain about abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Dientamoeba Fragilis is located in all parts of the world.The doctor may prescribe special medications to combat this micro -organism.
Toxoplasms
This parasite feels at home in meat, water and faeces.In humans, Toxoplasma causes illness with a similar name - toxoplasmosis.And its symptoms sometimes look like flu.
In pregnant women and people with impaired immunity, the symptoms can be more severe, for example, with toxoplasmosis, muscle cysts, brain and even ... eyes can form.If necessary, drug treatment is prescribed.
Hazel
The disease caused by this parasite (its scientific name - dracunculus medinsis) is not practically in our time - due to the spread of precautions.The parasite enters the human body with the absorption of water, in which there were large crayfish infected with parasite larvae.
In the human body, they grow in the intestines, after which they migrate to the lymphatic vessels and from there they penetrate the skin and are located in the subcutaneous tissue.Among the symptoms there may be heat, edema and pain in the location of the worm.But from the time of the infection, until the first symptoms appear, one year can pass.And there is no cure.