Important symptoms. Echinococcosis is quite possible to diagnose, treat, and most importantly, prevent

The World Health Organization published very frightening statistics. About 95% of the people who inhabit our planet suffer from parasitic diseases. The presence of animals in the house immediately increases this figure to 99.9%. This type of disease takes 14 million lives each year. If we add to the above statistics the fact that on Earth there are about 60 thousand species of parasites, it becomes obvious: this group of diseases is a serious threat to man.

So the medical statistics considers. But her warnings are thoughtlessly not only by the population, but also by practicing doctors. That's what they write in the medical reference books about such a dangerous parasitic disease as echinococcosis: "echinococcosis is a rare chronic disease of animals and humans caused by the larva of the ribbon parasite Echinococcus granulosus." It is widespread in Central Asia, Crimea, Georgia, Siberia and Yakutia. " The gross error of this statement is that echinococcosis, in fact, occurs frequently and almost universally. This fact will be confirmed by any veterinary and sanitary expert who examines the internal organs of animals after slaughter. Simply medical parasitologists in polyclinics are a rarity, and general practitioners, when observing certain symptoms, do not diagnose echinococcosis.

So, what are the symptoms of this disease? Echinococcosis can be determined only by symptomatology or additional diagnostic methods are required ?

For this invasion typical headache, a constant sense of fatigue, jaundice, various manifestations of allergic reactions, up to anaphylactic shock. Constant aching pain in the affected organs. And the liver, lungs, kidneys, and sometimes even the spleen can be affected. The symptomatology of the disease is nonspecific, and a number of presumptive diagnoses can be put on it. Especially the manifestation of the pain syndrome depends on the stage of the disease and the localization of echinococcal blisters. There are 4 stages of echinococcosis:

1. Asymptomatic. Getting through the mouth into the gastrointestinal tract of the intermediate host (human, pigs, large and small cattle, horses, deer), echinococcus eggs through the intestinal wall penetrate into the blood vessels and are carried to the organs with blood. A slow but irreversible process begins - the development of an echinococcal bladder. Before the symptoms appear, echinococcosis will gain strength, it will take about 5 months. During this time, the size of the bubble will not be more than 10mm.
2. Stage of subjective disorders. Symptoms are seen in this stage, echinococcosis is manifested, but uncharacteristically: weakness, fatigue, lack of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, allergies, shortness of breath, cough, tenderness of the abdomen.
3. The stage of sharply expressed objective symptoms and pathological changes in the organs: the blisters increase in size, germinate into the tissue of the organs and when examined on ultrasound are very reminiscent of cysts. The number of echinococcal blisters in the body of one person can be more than a hundred.
4. Complications. Growing up, bubbles can disrupt the body and cause its atrophy or the formation of abscesses on the affected organ. It is possible and the rupture of echinococcal blisters with the manifestation of fever, chills, general intoxication of the body, the development of peritonitis and even fatal.

Is it possible to say unequivocally about the causes that cause these symptoms in the above symptoms? One can only assume a diagnosis of "echinococcosis," a diagnosis that can confirm or disprove it should rely on additional methods of investigation. The detection of multiple cysts or tumorous elastic tumors on the internal organs during ultrasound is a serious reason for additional diagnostic methods: Katsoni, blood agglutination with latex, radiography, laparoscopy, angiography, computed tomography and ultrasound echolocation.

Minute business - to get such a disease, as echinococcosis. The treatment is very uneasy and, unfortunately, only surgical.

Proceeding from all written, the conclusion arises: about an echinococcosis, its signs, diagnostics and treatment, certainly, it is necessary to know, but it is much more important to know about its preventive maintenance.

• 3-4 times a year, degelmentize your "tailed" pets, and just avoid contacting other people's dogs.
• After walking the dogs, wash your street shoes with gloves.
• Do not feed dogs with raw meat products if it has not passed the veterinary and sanitary examination.
• Do not walk in places where dogs are walking.
• Wash your hands thoroughly.
• Do not use unwashed vegetables and fruits, as well as water from open water.