Parasites are the simplest types of bacteria that feed on and parasitize the nutrients of another organism. They feed on ready-made organic matter made by others.
There are currently more than twenty species of parasitic life forms that can live in the body of animals or humans.
All of them can enter our body and cause a variety of diseases and infections. Very often such bacteria are found in children, since they do not have such high immunity, while they have a lot of contact with animals and some dirty things.
Remember how a small child often puts everything in their mouth?
These items can contain dangerous parasites. This article contains a classification of parasites in the human body, how to treat infectious diseases and what you need to do to prevent harmful bacteria from entering your body.
Parasitic bacteria in the human body, in which organs can they live?
In the human body and on its skin are the simplest bacteria, they can be unicellular and multicellular.
Parasites that live on the body are called ectoparasites. This species includes bugs, lice and similar scabies pathogens. Others are called endoparasites because they live inside the human body. These include amoebas, worms and insect larvae.
The latter are the most dangerous, while the former are simply uncomfortable.
Internal parasites often cause serious illness and are more difficult to eliminate than external parasites. Medicine has already found many ways to get rid of them, and also has a lot of experience in treating parasites in the human body.
Each of the parasites has its ideal place in the human body, where it has all the conditions for a parasitic way of life, that is, the necessary nutrients for growth and reproduction. Some of them can move as they grow.
Endogenous parasites are most commonly found in the intestines, muscles, blood, lungs, heart and liver. Some species even live in nervous tissue. Ectogenic parasites live on the skin.
How can parasites get into the body?
The first way is the ingestion of bacteria into the body with food and water. Sometimes it is infected or contaminated, so microorganisms begin to multiply there. Insects like flies and cockroaches also carry many harmful bacteria. Some types of food are contaminated at first - raw fish or raw meat. Very often cattle meat is infected with parasites, so a person does not eat it raw.
The second is the contact household. In this case, parasites are transmitted from humans, household items or animals. Very often, infectious bacteria are carried by street animals - dogs, cats, birds and rats.
The third is blood transmission by mosquitoes. In the CIS countries this rarely happens, most often infected mosquitoes live in hot countries. The fourth is the independent entry of some insects into the human body. They gnaw through the skin and invade muscle tissue or blood, and then end up where they have the best living conditions.
What are the symptoms of parasites?
Parasites in the human body can cause a wide range of symptoms - from insomnia, which is often imperceptible, to skin formation. For example, ectoparasites often cause skin lesions and scabies. Endoparasites that live in the lungs often cause coughing. When they are in the intestines, you can be plagued by constipation, vomiting or diarrhea.
But the general signs of the presence of parasites in humans are as follows: insomnia, general fatigue, headaches, and sometimes allergic reactions. Very often people use folk remedies, but they are not always pleasant, for example, not everyone can drink a glass of sauerkraut juice with worms.
Consider the symptoms in the presence of different types of parasites:
- The most common parasites for humans are worms or roundworms. They cause indigestion and stomach pain, irritability, insomnia and anxiety, sometimes dizziness. Recognizing them is easy enough, you can see them in feces or test positive for a worm egg;
- Next comes a rather dangerous parasite - the tapeworm. It often causes discomfort or pain in the abdomen, diarrhea, a violent appetite (you eat a lot, but you do not gain weight), pain in the liver and the presence of its worms in the feces;
- in the presence of pinworms in a person, he can note loss of appetite, insomnia, nervousness and itching in the anus.
Why are parasites dangerous?
They disrupt the functioning of organs, cause inflammatory processes in tissues and destroy them. They produce toxic substances that destroy the body.
A pest that parasitizes you can cause a lack of vitamins, general weakness and a decrease in immunity in both adults and children. The presence of such a parasite in children is very dangerous, as they greatly slow down their development. It is very often difficult to get rid of parasites in the body, since they tend to adapt to their environment and do not want to leave their usual home.
How do you treat parasites?
To get rid of parasites, you must first consult a doctor. He will prescribe you a specific medication or another, more natural remedy.
There is also treatment with folk remedies, but it is recommended to carry it out in symbiosis with medicines.
medical treatment
Doctors have long found an effective treatment against parasites in humans.
Some medications are available in pill form, while others come in other forms, e. g. As liquids are available. The dosage is determined only by the doctor, self-application without side effects is not possible. In addition, medicines show differences in the age of the patients for whom they are intended.
In the modern world there is another way to cure people with parasites. It's called oxygen and appeared relatively recently, it's done only in hospitals under the supervision of a doctor. First, the patient is cleaned of the intestines with an enema, then oxygen is introduced by the probe method. After the stomach and rectum are filled with oxygen, the parasites die. With this method, the healed patient has no side effects, in contrast to the drug method.
Parasites: quick treatment with folk remedies
Various parasites in the human body can be removed using folk remedies, even some doctors recommend some natural remedies to get rid of such pests.
Pumpkin seeds are the most well-known remedy for treating parasites. They contain many nutrients that are beneficial to humans and their intestinal flora, but harmful to unicellular pests. To be completely healed, eat 20 grams of pumpkin seeds on an empty stomach in the morning, and later drink a laxative after 30-40 minutes.
Vegetable oils can be used as natural laxatives, the most common being castor oil.
To treat parasites with folk remedies in adults, anthelmintic teas are used, and after cleansing the intestines with an enema. To prepare a decoction, you can take wormwood, cloves, celandine or tansy. All of them have a pungent and bitter taste, making the intestinal environment unsuitable for pests.
However, be careful with the herbs you use, many of them are banned for pregnant women.
Diet to prevent parasites
Anyone who has ever encountered parasites knows the importance of rehabilitation and prevention. For this, the attending physician often prescribes a special diet. Separate meals are recommended when eating carbohydrates and proteins separately. Because if we eat them together, the stomach does not receive an exact signal as to what needs to be digested and which enzymes are required for this.
Incompletely digested food is an excellent source of food for parasites to survive and develop.
For example, meat and legumes should not be eaten with potatoes, pasta or bread. It is better to combine them with greens. If you want to consume carbohydrates and proteins, you should take a 2-hour break between intakes.
Can't give up your favorite sandwiches?
Eat them with grilled vegetables. Eat cereals often, they perfectly cleanse the body.
purification of the body
To cleanse and expel unwanted parasites from the body, some plants that are often on sale in pharmacies, in the market or in the supermarket will help.
For the first method, you will need the shell of green walnuts. If you live in a hot region, you can surely find walnut trees and collect unripe fruits from them. Take 15 nuts, remove the green shell and fill with vodka. Leave for a month in a dark, dry place. Then dilute a drop of tincture in half a glass of water and drink.
Gradually increase the dosage by one drop each day for seven days. After that, also gradually increase the intake to 2 teaspoons and take the medicine several times a day. Then take 2 teaspoons of the tincture twice a day throughout the year. This is quite a long cleanse, but very effective.
An easier way is to use clove seeds. They must be ground to a powder state. Just take a teaspoon and a half of this powder. Gradually reduce the dosage over the course of ten days, by the end of the period you should reach one teaspoon.
Various freshly squeezed juices help to cleanse the intestines. For example, carrot, cucumber, lemon, beet, apple - all these juices on an empty stomach create a certain environment in the stomach and remove parasites from the body.