Parasites are disease-causing organisms that can inhabit the human body, animals, and even some plants. There are many types of creatures in the world that penetrate the body of the host, feed on its beneficial substances, actively reproduce and leave waste products in its body, which leads to the development of all kinds of diseases.
Worms are most commonly found in humans. These are worms of various lengths and sizes, which mainly live in the intestines of vertebrates. But some helminths can migrate all over the body, attacking muscles, liver, heart, joints, lungs, and even the brain.
Worms damage the body of their host, so everyone should know how to determine the presence of parasites in the body. But many people do not want to go to the hospital, waste time and unreasonably get tested for helminths.
In this case, a person can find out if there are parasites in the body by paying attention to such an important criterion as the characteristic symptoms that develop with a certain type of helminthiasis. What if there aren't any? This is not happening!
However, in the early phase of helminthic invasion, the signs of vital activity of foreign microorganisms are weak or completely absent. The clinical picture becomes intense and pronounced only when the helminths are actively developing, because their larvae cannot parasitize in humans.
How to determine the presence of worms in the body without medical research?
Different types of parasites cause characteristic symptoms in the host. If they are identified in time and deciphered correctly, this will allow the infection to be identified even at an early stage.
This reduces the likelihood of misdiagnosis to a minimum, which will allow for correct and effective deworming using folk or medical antiparasitic agents.
So, to identify parasites in the human body, you need to pay attention to the symptoms:
- Gritting your teeth at night.
- Allergic skin rash - acne, acne, urticaria, cold sores, eczema, red spots, papillomas, neurodermatitis, psoriasis, etc.
- Development of diseases of the upper respiratory tract (bronchitis, pneumonia, runny nose), which is characteristic of ascariasis and strongyloidiasis.
- Flatulence and diarrhea occur due to the fact that long worms interfere with the secretion of bile and pancreatic juice.
- Constipation occurs when worms form a ball that blocks the passage in the intestines.
- Discomfort in joints and muscles due to parasite migration.
- Severe irritability caused by painful symptoms.
- Persistent dry cough that cannot be treated with standard antitussives.
An increase in body temperature to subfebrile values is also observed. The causes of this condition can be allergies, blood intoxications, neurological disorders, disorders of internal organs and the brain, and anemic syndrome.
In addition, the worm that lives in a person greatly reduces his immunity, which is why the patient often suffers from colds. Also, the patient develops long-term depression caused by intoxication of the body.
Characteristic symptoms of helminthiasis are nausea and vomiting, which are also caused by the release of toxic substances. Moreover, certain types of worms can live in the human body, producing specific hormones that affect the intestinal microflora, causing diarrhea.
However, in some cases, such symptoms are not attributed to helminthiasis, because they are similar to the signs of food poisoning. Although this can become a serious problem, because the later the treatment is started, the parasites will have time to cause more damage to the organs and systems of their host.
Therefore, in order to detect helminthiasis at home, it is necessary to perform some kind of test. To this end, the following questions need to be answered:
- Does it hurt in the anus at night?
- Are the lymph nodes swollen?
- Are skin rashes present?
- How often does insomnia occur?
- Do you feel vomiting and nausea?
- Is there pain in the joints and muscles?
- How often does bloating develop?
- How often does the taste of bitterness appear in the mouth?
If a person gave seven affirmative answers to these questions, then it can be claimed with high probability that his body is infected with worms.
How to recognize the type of helminthiasis according to the symptoms?
At home, you can determine which helminths inhabited the human body. But this can be done only if the parasitosis has reached the active phase of its development.
Ascariasis and difilobotriosis are characterized by neurological signs that are most intense in young patients. Aggressive behavior and increased nervousness are the result of the action of toxic substances on the nervous system. For similar reasons, migraines and dizziness occur in an infected person.
As a rule, trichinosis is accompanied by pain in the joints and muscles, as well as swelling of the face and eyelids. This is due to the peculiarity of the life of Trichinella, which lives in skeletal muscles. You can become infected with this parasite if you eat wild animal meat or pork, which is poorly cooked.
Giardiasis affects the work of the liver and kidneys and causes all kinds of allergic reactions. Moreover, some people, when the body is damaged by lamblia, suffer from arthritis, which develops as a result of intoxication. Also, in an invasive patient, the immunity is weakened, against the background of which the following diseases develop:
- sinusitis;
- stomatitis;
- bacterial vaginosis and so on.
A characteristic sign of pinworm enterobiasis is itching in the anal canal. Moreover, most infected people experience disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.
Anemic syndrome is characteristic of schistosomiasis. There are also manifestations of dysbiosis (pathogenic microorganisms inhibit the favorable microflora).
Chloronchiasis, fascionellosis and opisthorchiasis affect the gallbladder and develop icteric syndrome. Moreover, on the background of the course of these helminthiasis increase the liver and spleen.
Strongyloidiasis manifests itself in a variety of symptoms. Thus, with its progression, there are defects in the gastrointestinal tract, dyspeptic disorders and allergic manifestations.
How to determine if there are helminth eggs without laboratory conditions? When worms are in the breeding phase, it is very easy to find out their presence in the body. To do this, you need to take an analysis for parasite eggs.
With the development of opisthorchiasis, you can conduct the study yourself at home. For this purpose, adhesive tape or tape must be attached to the skin in the anal area.
It is best to perform this procedure immediately after waking up in the morning. If a person has opisthorchiasis, then their eggs will be identified on the sticky surface of the tape.
Laboratory methods for parasite detection
If the patient has more than three characteristic symptoms of helminthiasis, he should contact a medical institution in order to laboratory confirm the presence of the parasite at home.
The first step in case of suspicion of helminthic invasion is the study of feces. This allows you to identify tapeworm eggs, roundworms and flukes. However, to confirm the diagnosis accurately, tests must be done three times every few days.
To determine enterobiosis, scraping near the anus is taken. Also, one of the most accurate and convenient tests for the patient is ELISA, which allows you to detect antibodies in the blood produced by the body when parasitizing pathogenic microorganisms.
Sometimes a bioresonance diagnostic is done that studies the frequency of the parasite. This method is very informative because it determines the condition of the body as a whole. In addition, in addition to parasites, such a study allows you to find out the state of immunity, which weakens it, to identify other diseases, as well as pathogenic fungi, bacteria and viruses.