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 the industrialized countries, which proves the influence of living standards and domestic conditions on these pests.Read the most common of you below.
Bed bug
Furniture, wallpaper, mattresses - all of these are the most popular habitats of small flat insects, which are referred to as bed bugs.They prefer to live next to people or pets to get out of their animal shelters at night to fall warm human blood.
These insects are not diseases, but can cause an allergic reaction.If the bite are very combed, an infection can be brought into the wound.Treat the place of the BISSS with an antiseptic or take an antihistamine.
lice
These insects also eat human blood.And in contrast to the prevailing opinion, you can live not only on the head, but generally with the whole body.
Lice is easiest to contact someone who already has, and with the help of various means, including special shampoos.
Bugs scabies
Barriers are caused by ticks that penetrate the skin and lay eggs there.And an infection occurs with a long contact with the skin of a sick person.
The symptoms of scabies include itching, papulovesicular rash and the formation of a crust on the affected skin surface.It is treated with special medication.
Pork chain
This parasite occurs more often with insufficiently welded pork meat, but the gear is also possible in contact with the feces of an infected person or an animal.
The parasite influences the intestine and the brain, which leads to cysticercose - an illness that causes headaches.Depending on the severity of the disease, the treatment is either not carried out at all or surgical methods are used.
Parasites build their lives next to us (and even in us), but we don't suspect that.
Naegleria Fowleri
Naegleria Fowleri is an amoeba that lives in warm fresh water that is most common in Southeast Asia and gets into the human body when bathing and water.
It causes primary amo -bacon meningoencephalitis -a disease in which the brain is destroyed.Symptoms of the disease: headache, high temperature, vomiting, confusion, cramps, impairment of balance and loss of consciousness.At this point there are only experimental medication from such a disease, so survival with this is extremely low.
Round worms
A whole group of worms (ascarides, trichinelles, pinworms, etc.).Most of them affect the intestine.But a species that parasitically parasitically in the muscles.
The symptoms of an infection with such parasites: abdominal pain (ascarides), blood loss and anemia (hokworms), itching in anus (connector worms), pain, heat, face edge, eye reduction, rash (trichinella), mucus, mucus and blood, damage to the mucus (belly colona).
You can get rid of such parasites with the help of drugs recommended by the doctor.
Darmlamblia
If you started after a trip to nature, signs such as diarrhea, flatulence, cramps, nausea, then - then not to go to the lucky realm - this evil parasite has probably penetrated your body.They can be infected by food and water as well as by contact with the feces of an infected person or an animal.Fortunately, it is treated quickly and not expensive medication.
Trypanosoma
This parasite causes a life -threatening Shagas disease.The disease spreads with a special type of insects.Symptoms - heat, fatigue, headache and muscle pain, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting and edema of the eyelids - manifests itself very quickly.
The disease can lead to chronic damage to the heart and intestine.The disease is treated with special medication.
Cryptosporidium
These parasites affect the intestine.They spread through contact with the feces of an infected person or an animal.Most of the time, an infection occurs when bathing.The diarrhea caused by cryptosporidium can take a long time, but mostly it does not require treatment.
Falciparum plasmodium
The carriers of this parasite that cause 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.A laboratory blood test is required to determine a diagnosis.The main thing that you should remember is: the earlier the treatment begins, the more the patient has the chance to survive.
Trichomonad
This parasite leads to an illness that is sexually transmitted as trichomoniasis.Most infected symptoms are missing.But some may have itching, burning or irritation in the genital area.The disease is treated with antibiotics.
Tower of Fragilis
Doctors still don't know how this parasite, which affects the colon, penetrates the body.In some cases, the disease goes asymptomatic, others complain about abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Tower of Fragilis can be found in all regions of the world.The doctor can prescribe special medication to combat this microorganism.
Toxoplasma
This parasite feels at home in meat, water and cat droppings.In humans, toxoplasma causes a disease with a similar name - toxoplasmosis.And his symptoms sometimes resemble flu.
In pregnant women and people with weakened immunity, symptoms can be more serious, for example, if toxoplasmosis, cysts in muscles, brain and even ... can form eyes.If necessary, drug treatment is prescribed.
Guinean worm
The disease caused by this parasite (your scientific name - Dracunculus Medinsesees) can be found practically in our time - due to the spread of information about precautionary measures.The parasite occurs with the absorption of water into the human body, in which large cancer was infected with parasite larvae.
They grow in the human body in the intestine, whereupon they wander into the lymphatic vessels, and from there they penetrate into the skin and are located in the subcutaneous tissue.Under the symptoms, heat, edema and pain can exist instead of the localization of the worm.But a year can pass from the moment of infection to the occurrence of the first symptoms.And there is no treatment.