14 parasites living among people

A woman holds her head

According to the World Health Organization, more than 4.5 billion people are infected with parasites in the world.This is not every second, but more!

In developing countries, their prevalence indicators are much higher than the population of developed countries, proving the influence of living standards and domestic conditions in this pest.Read about the most common below.

Bug bed

Furniture, wallpaper, mattress - all of this is a small flat flat insect habitat, known as bug bed.They prefer to live next to people or pets to free out of their shelter at night to defeat warm human blood.

This bug is not a carrier of the disease, but can cause allergic reactions.If the bite is highly brushed, the infection can be brought into the wound.Treat the bite with antiseptic or take antihistamines.

Louse

These insects also eat human blood.And contrary to the opinion, they can live not only in the head, but in general with the whole body.

Lice are easiest to be invited through close contact with someone who already has it, and to fight with the help of a variety of ways, including special shampoo.

The sores bug

Obstacles are caused by lice that penetrate the skin and lay eggs there.And the infection occurs with prolonged contact with the skin of the sick.

Symptoms of sores include itching, papulovesicular rash and crust formation on the affected skin surface.It is treated with special medicine.

Pig

These parasites more often enter the human body with unpredictable pork, but delivery may also come in contact with the stools or infected animals.

Parasites affect the intestines and brain, leading to cysticercosis - a disease that causes headaches.Depending on the severity of the disease, the treatment is not done at all, or the surgical method is used.

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Parasites build their lives next to us (and even in the US), but we don't suspect this.

Naegleria fowleri

Naegleria Fowleri is an ameba who lives in warm freshwater, most common in Southeast Asia and enters the human body while bathing and water enters the nose.

It causes meningoencephalitis amo -bacon primer - a disease in which the brain is destroyed.Symptoms of the disease: headache, high temperature, vomiting, confusion, seizures, affected balance and loss of consciousness.Currently, there are only experimental medicines from such a disease, so the survival of it is very low.

Round worms

All worms groups (ascarides, trichinelles, pinworms and so on).Most of them affect the intestines.But a species that causes parasitic trichinellosis in the muscle.

Symptoms of infection with these parasites: abdominal pain (ascarides), blood loss and anemia (hokworms), itching in the anus (pinworms), pain, heat, facial edema, redness of the eye, skin rash (trichinella), mucus, fluid and blood in feces, damage mucous, damage mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous, mucous damageMucous on feces, damaging mucous on feces, damaged -mucous -colone.

You can get rid of the parasites with the help of medications recommended by your doctor.

Lamblia of the intestines

If, after a trip to nature, you begin to torture signs such as diarrhea, bloating, cramps, nausea, then - don't go to Fortuneteller - this bad parasite may penetrate your body.You can be infected through food and water, as well as through contact with the stools of an infected person or animal.Fortunately, it is treated quickly and inexpensive.

Trypanosoma

This parasite causes a life -threatening shagas disease.The disease spreads with a special type of bug.Symptoms - heat, fatigue, head and muscle aches, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting and eyelid edema - shown quickly.

The disease can cause chronic damage to the heart and intestines.The disease is treated with special medicine.

Cryptosporidium

This parasite affects the intestines.They spread through the relationship of an infected person or animal.Often, infections occur during bathing.Cryptosporidium -caused diarrhea can last a long time, but often does not require treatment.

Plasmodium falciparum

This parasite carrier causes malaria to be mosquito.This type of malaria is considered the most dangerous and causes more deaths than others.

These symptoms are similar to the symptoms of influenza -chills, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting.To establish a diagnosis, laboratory blood tests are required.The main thing to keep in mind is that the early treatment begins, the more patients have the opportunity to survive.

Trichomonad

This parasite causes a sexually transmitted disease called trichomoniasis.The most infected symptoms are not present.But some may feel itchy, burning or irritation in the genital area.The disease is treated with antibiotics.

Dimentamoeba fragilis

Doctors still do not know how this parasite affects the colon enters the body.In some cases, the disease continues without symptoms, others complain of stomach aches and diarrhea.

Fragilis was found in all areas of the world.Doctors can prescribe a special remedy for you to fight this microorganism.

Toxoplasm

This parasite feels at home in meat, water and cat dirt.In people, toxoplasma causes disease of the same name - toxoplasmosis.And the symptoms sometimes resemble the flu.

In pregnant women and people with poor immunity, symptoms can be more serious, for example, with toxoplasmosis, cysts in the muscles, brain and even ... eyes can form.If necessary, drug treatment is prescribed.

Worm Guinean

The disease caused by this parasite (its scientific name - Dracunculus Medinsesis) is practically not found at our time - due to the dissemination of information on precautions.Parasites enter the human body with water absorption, where there is a large coral shrimp infected with parasite larvae.

In the human body, they grow in the intestines, after which they emigrate into the lymph vessels, and from there they penetrate the skin and localize it in the subcutaneous tissue.Among the symptoms there may be heat, edema and pain in the localization of worms.But from the time of the infection, to the first symptom, a year can pass.And there is no treatment.