Air? That is, they can be inhaled with dust?

Yes. Many patients are offended: “where do we get worms from?” We are very clean, always wash our hands. " And everything is very simple. For example, a person is walking a dog. She spoiled on the sidewalk (the owner, of course, did not clean up after her). The sun dried this matter, the wind picked up and carried "bacteriological weapons" to a nearby street cafe. By the way, ENT doctors often find Ascaris larvae in the nose.

From microscopic (protozoa, schistosomes, toxacars Trichinella), to several meters ( tapeworms) In my practice, there were 15-meter tapeworms.

Does infection depend on a person’s age?

Since children learn the world “to taste” and carry everything in their mouths, they are often sick with cavity helminths (who live in the intestines). In adults, tissue helminths are mainly found (living in muscles, various organs and tissues).

Everywhere. They can settle in any organs, in muscles, joints, bones, blood, lymph, sperm. There is not a single environment that would not be affected.

Worms in the seed. That doesn't sound very good. Do they swarm right there?

Yes, and very aggressive. In a microscope, you can observe how Trichinella eats sperm. After all, a sperm is a protein, which means - saturated nutritious product. Helminths appreciate it.

Can worms crawl out through human openings?

What symptoms do patients come to you with?

Many kiss and let cats and dogs into bed. What is the issue with pets?

If there are pets at home, then the risk of getting infected is one hundred percent. Therefore, periodically you need to simultaneously sanitize both the animals and the owner. By the way, not only pets can infect us, but we can infect them.

In Japan, where sushi is a whole ritual with all the necessary attributes (wasabi, ginger, sake) - yes. In our country, where these rules are often not respected, no. Although, in principle, you can eat anything, the main thing is to read a prayer before eating. She cleans the food. Indeed, before, until they prayed before the meal, no one even took a spoon.

How do patients react when they find out about their misfortune?

Generally adequate. But sometimes it happens that they cry, they are offended. Like, where did I get a clean person like that? Once the patient found Trichomonas, to which she began to shout: "You hold me for whom, I am a decent woman!" As a result, I wrote a complaint to the clinic. But Trichomonas are of different types, and are not necessarily sexually transmitted.

Can worms themselves leave the body of the "owner"? Without treatment?

How can you prevent the appearance of "uninvited guests"?

The main thing is to follow the rules of hygiene. In the morning and evening, take a shower and change clothes. You need to eat right. Eat less sweet. From meat, prefer horse meat and lamb. And dishes such as a steak with blood are just an invitation to worms in your body. Eat more fermented foods (sauerkraut, cucumbers) and spicy (especially mustard, horseradish, onion). Many peoples have not just eaten a lot of spicy foods since ancient times.

How to protect yourself from infection in southern countries, such as Thailand or India?

How hard is the treatment going?

How long do you need to wait for test results?

Analyzes are different. For example, scraping results can be found out after 10 minutes, and the study of bacteriological crops lasts a week.

Now water is losing its physicochemical properties. If before you could safely drink from any source, now infection with protozoa and helminths is provided. The reason for this is pesticides and chlorides. They take out the natural antiseptic iodine from water. In addition to this, due to modern nutrition and water, the acidity of the blood and stomach decreases in humans. We get less chlorine. It is fashionable to say that salt is a white death. Who invented this? Salt should always be on the table, because it is a source of chlorine for the body.

Therefore, until a person learns to live in peace with his body and nature, the situation will only worsen. And she is still not rosy. It is estimated that 99.9% of the world's population suffers from helminth infections.

The history of helminthology dates back thousands of years.

The term helminth, which is ubiquitous at present, was coined by Hippocrates.

Now there are more than 100 thousand species.

All this many helminths belong to the lower worms such as scolecid (lat. Scolecida).

They are divided into four classes:

• flatworms, this is a class of cestodes (tapeworms) and trematodes (flukes);
• roundwormsincluding one extensive class of nematodes;
• prickly-headed worms;
• annelids.

Among cestodoses, the following diseases are distinguished:

Of trematodoses, such helminthiases are often diagnosed:

The so-called protozoal diseases caused by the presence of unicellular protozoa: amoeba, plasmodium malaria, trypanosomes, giardia, toxoplasma, trichomonas are placed in a separate group.

However, in the tissues of children, people with immunodeficiency, diseases digestive tractof the endocrine system, further transformation of worm larvae into adult males and females occurs.

Their life activity is accompanied by:

• violation of metabolic processes;
• vitamin deficiency;
• deficiency of minerals and proteins;
• forming a response allergic reaction, which is fraught with the development of autoimmune processes;
• the negative impact of toxic products of helminth activity.

To remove some helminths, you can use folk remedies  (pumpkin seeds, cleansing enemas with garlic and soda, taking infusions with celandine, ginger root, tansy and others medicinal plants) But in the presence of severe and massive infestations of herbs, homeopathic drops and herbal supplements can not do. To destroy the worms, long-term drug therapy is needed, and help in restoring the basic functions of the digestive tract.

Helminthiasis can be prevented only if certain preventive measures are followed.

Damage to tissues by helminths is accompanied by numerous point hemorrhages. This becomes the cause of anemia, weakness, rapid fatigue, and decreased performance. Due to metabolic disorders and the absorption of vitamins and minerals, the condition of the skin, nails, and hair deteriorates. A person quickly loses weight, suffers from frequent viral and infectious diseases.

Patients complain of:

• shortness of breath
• change in heart rate;
• feeling of lack of air;
• discomfort and heaviness in the chest.

Joining inflammatory process  may cause pericarditis or myocarditis. These diseases are accompanied by fever and severe pain  in the area of \u200b\u200bthe heart.

In the climate of our country, epidermal helminthiases are relatively rare. As a rule, they develop against the background of damage to the intestines and other internal organs.

The patient usually complains of:

• pains of different intensities and discomfort in the abdomen;
• diarrhea, which can be replaced by constipation, this is especially characteristic in the initial stages of infection;
• an admixture in the feces of mucus and blood;
• the occurrence of painful cramps simultaneously with the urge to defecate;
• decreased or lack of appetite;
• flatulence, bloating.

As a result of disruption of the digestive glands, a person constantly feels heaviness in the stomach. In some cases, a ball of roundworm can cause intestinal obstruction.

The penetration of worms into the hematopoietic system is accompanied by disorders in the whole body. Moreover, such an invasion sometimes does not manifest itself in the form of external symptoms. However, due to the destruction of red blood cells and other shaped elements  there are frequent headaches, dizziness, drowsiness, despite the observance of the daily regimen, constant weakness, intolerance to physical exertion.

More recently, some private clinics have announced that they have created a new safe method for controlling worms - bioresonance therapy. The principle of such treatment is based on the laws of physics. According to the theory of the developers of this method, each cell of our body is not stationary in one place, but is in a mode of constant oscillations, emitting electromagnetic waves. Their length is individual for each internal organ.

The advantages of bioresonance therapy include safety and painlessness. However, the clinical effectiveness of this treatment method has not been proven, and the treatment equipment does not have the appropriate certificates. But exposure to electromagnetic waves will not do any harm and cause no complications.

There are actually not so many drugs used to get rid of helminths and protozoa. The dosage of drugs, the scheme and duration of their administration is selected by the doctor depending on the age of the patient, the severity of the invasion and the presence of concomitant pathologies.

With relatively light helminthic infestations  are advised to use recipes traditional medicine. These funds can be easily prepared at home, and the components are sold in any pharmacy.

To expel helminths from the intestines, healers recommend:

• Consume as much onion, garlic, ginger, pomegranate as possible.
• Buy the usual cloves that are used in cooking. It is ground in a coffee grinder and taken according to the following scheme: on the first day, 0.5 g, on the second - 1 g, and from the third to the ninth - 1.5 g in the morning on an empty stomach.
• Pour a tablespoon of chopped and dried nettle roots with a glass of boiling water and simmer in a water bath for 15 minutes. Insist until completely cooled and take 3 tbsp. three times a day before meals.
• Mix equal proportions of aloe juice and onion, add honey and take 3 times a day in a tablespoon for several weeks.
• Mix 10 tbsp. flax seeds and 1 tablespoon cloves, grind and take at the rate of 2.5 g of powder per 1 kg of body weight.
• Mix grated coconut pulp and coconut milk. Use this mixture for 1 tsp. three times a day on an empty stomach.

There is nothing more disgusting than the thought of a worm living in your stomach

My colleague cites the case when five hunters shot a boar, for joy, they immediately began to cut it and grilled kebabs. They washed the barbecue with an immense amount of vodka. The men are healthy, they say that everyone drank at least a liter.

All five were in intensive care with a severe form of trichinosis. They no longer hoped to save two, but apparently God loves fools.

The people are not learning anything.

Opinions are divided.

There are two approaches to prevention:

2) Opponents of this method refer to the toxic effect of drugs on the human body and recommend that they undergo a three-time examination in the laboratory every six months (at intervals of three to four days) - pass feces, smear, scrapings for enterobiosis and not be poisoned by chemistry, because each drug even with a single dose, it affects the liver.

Choose for yourself.

Prevention

Trichinosis - a test of meat in veterinary laboratories. Trichinosis meat is destroyed in any case. There are cases when hunters, sparing meat, for a long time digested pieces and fed them to dogs. Then they had to finish the dogs so that they would not suffer.

Meat processing for trichinosis

Digestion of 1 cm thick meat for 2–3 hours theoretically kills trichinella. But I repeat, trichinosis meat is thrown away. And it’s better to burn, so that the homeless people do not pick up.

Freezing with trichinosis practically does not work. I have a friend in the veterinary laboratory, so for six months now he has been tormenting a piece of pork with trichinella. It freezes, then thawes, cuts off a piece and places in a favorable environment. So these bastards have been reviving for six months.

Where to carry the meat?

To the veterinary laboratory.

For intestinal - it is most often fever, nausea, vomiting, loose stool, skin rashes, such as urticaria, heaviness and abdominal pain, fatigue

For trichinosis - the onset of the disease, like intestinal, then pain in the joints and muscles, swelling of the face. The last sign I would like to emphasize, since the hunting season is in full swing and many hunters bring boar meat home.

Cysticercosis - depending on the hit:

Brain - headaches, cramps, pseudoepileptic seizures
  Eyes - visual impairment
  Heart - Heart Rate Failure
  Dirofilariasis - a feeling that someone is crawling under the skin.

Antibiotics are another group of drugs designed to affect microorganisms.

When traveling to Africa and Southeast Asia, you should follow a few simple rules:

There is never any food outside of large restaurants and cafes (if the Thai offers you a scorpion on a skewer near the hotel - chase him with kicks);
  It’s still possible not to swim in untested freshwater reservoirs (only pools and the sea), in fast-flowing mountain rivers, but in lakes, puddles, ponds and swamps, and especially in rice fields — it is better not to;
  Do not walk barefoot in the green grass. And in general, do not walk barefoot. Just over the sand on the beach;
  Wash your hands. Constantly. Several times a day. Before meals and after using the toilet;
  Do not drink unverified water;
  A few weeks after arrival, it is better to go to the laboratory and take tests;
  Rest at home (joke).

Animal lovers

If your cat or dog is walking on the street, then there is no talk at all.

Once every six months, carry out prophylaxis with veterinary drugs. It is possible and human, but there is a risk not to calculate the dose, because your pet does not weigh fifty pounds.

The topic is slippery. Honestly, I didn’t want to lift it.

Until recently, Giardia was considered normal human microflora and almost symbionts. Only in recent years have they decided to resettle them all the same in the camp of the enemy. The main problem with lamblia is that they are everywhere. If the analysis showed their absence, then this is a bad analysis.

In the CIS, they proudly declare that there are no lamblia in our tap water! But German laboratories find giardia in bottled water and in the mineral water of their famous sources. Either the Germans fouled like that, or something is not being agreed upon with us.

Giardia - unlike the worms described above - is the simplest organism. So very small. Giardia cysts pass through filters of city water pipes, they are constantly found in wells and columns, lakes and ponds.

Giardia exists in two forms. Movable and cyst. A person is infected just by cysts. Guilty of dirty hands, household items. Infection occurs even if you washed the fruit with not too clear water or swallowed lake water when bathing. Our smaller brothers, dogs, cats, rodents, may also be sources. Giardia cysts enter the water with the feces of the patient or carrier and survive in the water for five to six weeks.

Giardia affects the liver and small intestine. The infected have pale skin integumentvomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, rash. In certain regions of the CIS, a significant percentage of children and adults are infected with giardia and are their chronic carriers. By the way, in Europe and the USA in certain regions no less, so let them not show off.

Our body is a place of compact residence of millions of petitioned and uninvited guests from the world of viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and animals.

Among them are:

Symbionts (intestinal bacteria that help us digest food) - I’ll say right away that even symbionts that are moved to the wrong organ can damage. For example, intestinal bacteria that enter the bloodstream will cause sepsis.

Neutral - from quiet parasites who quietly eat up pasta in your intestines, to random passers-by, who do not know how it skidded and stayed (most of the inhabitants of the skin and oral mucosa).

It is necessary to distinguish between chronic form and carriage.

Note in his article, Dr. Komarovsky warns that. This is especially dangerous when it comes to children's health.