Treatment of tapeworm

Human Parasites are very diverse. Class of tapeworms (cestodes or) has up to 3,500 species of worms. Currently offered regimens that help to get rid of pathogens in strict compliance with all medical recommendations. Treatment for tapeworms is a long process over several months, which is determined by the life cycle of the parasite.

The most common form of treatment teniidoze - drugs for oral administration, destroying adults. The most common treatment for tapeworms Worms - how dangerous they are?   It applied praziquantel, albendazole or antimiikrobny drug nitazoxanide. Dosage, duration of treatment and the type of drug can vary depending on the type of tapeworm. These drugs kill the adults, but not eggs tapeworms, so after treatment necessary preventive measures to prevent re-infestation. As a rule, after the treatment it is recommended to do periodic analysis of feces How to pass a stool, so as not to spoil it   for the detection of eggs, larvae, worms or proglottids.

A rational approach to treatment

Appointment of antiparasitic drugs causes the death of a tapeworm, but it does not mean that recovered. Talk about getting rid of the parasite can only be the case if you can find just the head of the pathogen with which it attaches to the intestinal wall. The therapy may develop a common intoxication due to entering the bloodstream decay products, it is important that the patient was under medical observation in some cases may need to be hospitalized.

The active drug is praziquantel (or biltricid, azinoks) .  The drug causes muscles to spasm of the worm, which naturally causes his death on the background of spastic paralysis .  This is due to an increase in the permeability of cell membranes to calcium ions .  The main metabolism occurs in the liver praziquantel, so the state of liver failure is a contraindication to its purpose .  It should adhere to the precautionary measures in case of renal disease .  Severe comorbidities could lead to increased toxic effect which occurs when a defective metabolism of the drug .  The dose for single administration of the medicament is calculated according to the detected type of pathogen, on average it may be from 10 to 50 mg per kg body weight .  Passage of the segments of the parasite, finding them in the stool may be an indication for discontinuing treatment as to be detected head .  If during the first course of treatment could not get rid of the parasite, it is possible to re-assign the medication after a certain period of time .

Appointment of herbal remedies

A good therapeutic effect is achieved by using drugs on the basis of the dry extract of the rhizomes of the male fern. This feature is available in tablets at a dose of 0, 5 m (trade name "Filiksan"). Purpose of this group of drugs in the invasion tapeworms produced in a specific pattern. The patient must observe a diet for a few days before receiving the tablets (vegetarian, no fatty foods). The night before at dinner are allowed to drink a glass of tea, eat biscuits. To drink a laxative, and do an enema in the morning. Only after fasting patient can drink therapeutic dose. Next should be given to re-laxative. If for several hours will not be a chair, it is necessary to make an enema.

With the purpose of treatment can also be used pumpkin seeds. They must be cleaned and crushed in a mortar. It is important to maintain a thin shell on the seeds, which gives them a kind of a greenish tint. At one time should cook about 300 grams of seeds. If the treatment is given your child the dose reduced according to age. The patient is given the number of seeds should be consumed within an hour with water. The laxative is appointed in a few hours, and then made enema. From the seeds of pumpkin You can cook the broth in a water bath Sauna and health: the benefits and harms of bath procedures   (you can cook on low heat), which is also an effective means. The big advantage is the absence of contraindications for the appointment of pumpkin seeds, which is important when using toxic drugs. To achieve more effective positive result can be combined at the same time a few popular recipes, alternating them. After completing the course of treatment is required to control tests carried out to confirm the expulsion of helminths from the body.

Treatment of invasive teniidoze

• Anthelmintic drugs. Albendazole could reduce the size of larval cysts. In the course of treatment required ultrasound or x-ray of brush sizes to test the effectiveness of the drug.
• Anti-inflammatory drugs. If formed larvae tapeworm cysts cause inflammation of tissues or organs for the treatment prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs.
• Antiepileptic drugs. If the disease causes spasms, to suppress symptoms prescribed antiepileptic drugs.
• Bypass. One form of invasive teniidoze causing hydrocephalus (gidrotsevaliyu) - accumulation of fluid, which is used to derive the bypass.
• Operation. The ability to remove formed larvae tapeworm cysts depends on consumer affairs and the size of the brush. Usually surgically removed larval cysts in the liver, lungs, eyes, because such cysts disrupt bodies.

Prevention tapeworm

• Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water before eating and after using the restroom.
• Wash fruits and vegetables with clean water.
• To destroy the eggs and larvae of the tapeworm, expose the meat to heat treatment (the recommended temperature is fifty-two degrees Celsius).
• Freeze meat for at least twelve hours, and fish - at least twenty-four hours to destroy the eggs and larvae of parasites.
• Do not eat raw or undercooked (neprozharennoe) pork, beef and fish.

Tapeworms

The main reason for tapeworm infection - drinking food or water that contains eggs or larvae of parasites. Getting in the human body, the tapeworm eggs are attached to the walls of the internal organs (invasive teniidoze). The larvae of worms if it enters the human body develop into adults in the gut (intestinal taeniasis).

The adult consists of a head, a neck and a chain of segments (proglottids). The head of tapeworm attaches to the intestinal wall and proglottid produce eggs. The life of the adult tapeworm can be up to twenty years. Intestinal form teniidoze quite harmless, and invasive teniidoze can cause serious complications.

In most cases, infection of tapeworm no distinct symptoms, and in the case of invasive teniidoze symptoms can vary depending on the location of the lesion larvae of worms.

Intestinal teniidoze

Signs and symptoms of infection tapeworm:

• Sickness
• Weakness
• Loss of appetite
• Abdominal pain
• Diarrhea
• The decrease in body weight, a violation of the mechanism of digestion

Invasive teniidoze

If larvae tapeworms leave the intestine and formed in tissue cysts, then it may cause damage to organs and tissues accompanied by the following symptoms:

• Convulsions
• Temperature increase
• Allergic reactions
• Bacterial infections
• Neurological symptoms

The most common types of tapeworms that can infect the person:

• Pork tapeworm (Taenia solium)
• Bovine tapeworm (Taenia saginata)
• Dwarf tapeworm (Hymenolepis nana)
• Broad tapeworm (Diphyllobothrium latum)

Teniidoze begins after falling into the human eggs or larvae tapeworms.

• Contact tapeworm eggs in the human body. Tapeworm eggs may be present in food or water. For example, the eggs of intestinal worms, left the body in the faeces of infected pigs, into the soil, which in turn infects plants or water. Getting in the human body, the tapeworm eggs produced migrating larvae, which can leave the intestines and form cysts in other tissues (eg, liver or lung). Invasive teniidoze characteristic of the pork tapeworm.
• Contact larval tapeworms in the human body. Upon infection tapeworm larvae animal parasites penetrate the tissue and, if a person eats neprozharennoe (undercooked) meat from animals that enter the body, developing in the gut.

The length of adult specimens can reach fifteen meters, and the life of tapeworm up to twenty years. Attached to the intestinal wall, tape worms Worms - how dangerous they are?   cause irritation or inflammation, and dying out in the stool.