Worms - cestodes

In the world there are more than 3500 different populations of tapeworms, which are divided into three orders: clove, ribbon and chain. Today we will talk about ribbon worms parasitizing the small intestine, both animal and human, causing a serious disease called cestodosis. For humans, the most dangerous are bovine and porcine tapeworms, echinococcus, broad ribbon and alveococcus.

What do you need to know about them?

Tape worms Belong to the class of parasitic flatworms. Their length can reach up to 30 cm. Because of their external ribbon-like appearance, they received such a name. In some worms, the body consists of numerous segments. At the end of the body are the so-called suckers, with which they are attached to the walls of the intestine.

Food they suck in all their calf. In tapeworms, the sexual sphere is best developed. This type of worm is a hermaphrodite. Each segment has two reproductive systems. Small individuals can impregnate cross between different species, large only with different segments, very rarely self-fertilization occurs. Their fertility is very high and sometimes reaches up to 600 million eggs per year.

Some tapeworms Can exist up to 20 years in the human body, if you calculate how much they will lay eggs for this period of time, then the amount will be about 11 billion. Infection occurs through raw or half-baked meat and in contact with sick animals. To prevent ingress of worms into your body, you must thoroughly fry and cook meat.

Tape Worms: Symptoms

• Bloating of the upper abdomen;
• diarrhea;
• Loss of appetite and body weight;
• Irritability, weakness;
• Itching in the anus;
• Detection of eggs, worms or blood in the stool.

The pathogenic effect of worms is expressed in intoxication with its products of vital activity, "taking food", destroying intestinal lactobacilli, impaired absorption of useful trace elements and vitamins into the intestines. In addition to these aspects, the constant irritation of the intestinal walls can lead to curvature of the intestines, anti-peristaltic movements and other troubles in the intestine.

Cestodozes are diagnosed by studying fecal masses, with worms in feces showing segments of parasites.

Tape worms: treatment and prevention

For prevention, it is necessary to heat meat and fish thermally. When eggs are frozen, eggs die only after 4 days, so do not consume sushi or any other raw fish. Also, avoid contact with homeless animals that may have tapeworms. After the streets, always wash your hands with soap and water. Usually for getting rid of worms, one-time intake of drugs of niclosamide and praziquantel several times a day is sufficient.

From non-traditional methods of treatment the following is applied:

• Take 15 gr. Dry walnut leaves pour them with two glasses of boiling water and insist for about half an hour. Drink in a warm form instead of tea.
• Well helps St. John's wort to get rid of worms. A tablespoon of dry herbs to fill in 200 gr. Boiling water and insist. Then take the field of each meal for 10 gr.
• We take carrots usual, carefully washed and make carrot juice in a juicer or by passing through a meat grinder and squeezing juice manually. Before use add honey and sugar to taste. Take in the morning on an empty stomach 10 gr. And in the evening an hour before meals.
• You can boil the grated carrots in milk and mash with a fork until you get a gruel, eat before eating 10 gr.
• In medicine, dry wormwood inflorescences are used, they are ground with jam, sugar and honey. Use 2 hours before eating 5 gr. 3 times a day for several weeks. On the day of the last appointment, a laxative is prescribed. The main thing is not to increase the dosage, t. Possible side effects in the form of diarrhea, vomiting, convulsions.

Tape worms are dangerous parasites that need to be disposed of in a timely manner so that they do not have time to cause irreparable harm to human health. After all, they release dangerous toxins, destructively acting on the lymphatic and circulatory system.