14 the parasites that live in people

BED BUGS

The furniture, wallpaper, mattresses – all this is favoured by the habitat of the small, flat insects known as bed bugs. They prefer to live with humans or pets for the night freely out of their shelters-fed hot human blood.

These bugs are not disease vectors, but can cause an allergic reaction. If the bites strongly comb, in the wound can get infected. Treat the place of the bite of antiseptic, or take a anti-histamine of the tool.

LICE

These insects also feed on human blood. And contrary to belief, can live not only on the head, but in general the whole body.

Head lice is more easily caught by a close contact with someone, someone, they have already, and, in the fight with the help of different means, and in particular shampoos.

The ITCHY BUGS

Scabies causing mites that penetrate into the skin and lay there eggs. And the infection occurs by prolonged contact with the skin of the patient.

The symptoms of scabies are itching, rash, and crusting affected the surface of the skin. Treated with special drugs.


SWINE TSEPEN

This parasite often enters the body of the man is not ready for the meat of pork, but also the transmission is also possible in case of contact with faeces from an infected person or animal.

The parasite infects the intestine and the brain, which leads to the disease, to the caller of the headaches. Depending on the severity of the disease, the treatment or does not take place or are used for surgical methods.

The parasites build a life beside us (and in us), and we do not suspect

Naegleria fowleri

Nigeria Fowler

Naegleria fowleri – an amoeba that lives in warm, fresh water, the most common in the South-east Asia and to rise in the human body when swimming and the water in the nose.

Causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a disease that destroys the brain. The symptoms of the disease: headache, fever, vomiting, confusion, seizures, balance disorders and loss of consciousness. At this moment, there are only experimental drugs for the disease, therefore, the rate of survival with him until a very low.

ROUNDWORMS

The whole group of worms (ascaris , Trichinella, pinworms, and so on). Most of them affects the intestines. But a single species, the calling trichinosis, a parasite in the muscles.

The symptoms of contracting these parasites: abdominal pain (ascaris), blood loss and anemia , itching in the anus (pinworm), pain, fever, swelling of the face, eyes, skin rash (Trichinella), mucilage, liquid and blood in the stool, damage to the lining of the colon (whipworm).

Get rid of these parasites using drugs recommended by your doctor.

INTESTINAL GIARDIA

If, after trips to the nature that you started to torture him to such symptoms as diarrhea, bloating, cramping, nausea, and then - to the fortune, do not put in your body certainly penetrated this evil parasite. You can contract through food and water, as well as by contact with faeces from an infected person or animal. Fortunately, it heals quickly and not expensive drugs.

trypanosome

This parasite causes dangerous for the life of the Chagas disease. The disease spreads the particular bed bugs. The symptoms – fever, fatigue, headache, muscle pain, skin rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting, and swelling of the eyelids – emerge very quickly.

Chagas disease

The disease can lead to a chronicle of the defeat of the heart and the gut. The disease is treated with medications.

KRIPTORIDII

These parasites affect the intestine. They apply through the contact with faeces of an infected person or animal. Most often infection occurs when swimming. Caused by them the diarrhea may last a long time, but most often the treatment does not require.

PLAZMODIUM falciparum;

The vectors of this parasite of the malaria, the mosquitoes. This type of malaria is considered the most dangerous and causes more deaths than the other.

The symptoms are similar to symptoms of the flu – chills, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting. To establish the diagnosis requires a laboratory study of blood. The main thing to remember - the sooner the treatment, the more the patient has a chance to survive.

Trichomitus

This parasite causes a disease called trichomoniasis. Most of the infected symptoms are absent. But some may experience itching, burning or irritation in the genital area. The disease is treated with antibiotics.

DIENTAMEBAFRAGILIS

The doctors still do not know that this parasite, which affects the large intestine, enters the body. In some, the disease is asymptomatic, others complain of abdominal pain and diarrhea.

DIENTAMEBAFRAGILIS (Dientamoeba fragilis) is found in all regions of the world. Your doctor may prescribe you special medication to combat this micro-organism.

TOXOPLASMA gondii

This parasite feels as at home in the meat, water and cat feces. People Toxoplasma gondii causes a disease in the same title of toxoplasmosis. And its symptoms sometimes look like the flu.

In pregnant women and immunocompromised individuals, symptoms can be more severe, for example, when the toxoplasmosis can form cysts in the muscles, brain, and eyes. If necessary, is appointed the medication.

GUINEA WORM

The disease caused by this parasite (its scientific name is Dracunculus medinensis, the guinea worm), today almost not found due to the dissemination of information on the precautions to be taken. The parasite enters the human body in the absorption of the water in which were copepoda cancers infected by the larvae of the parasite.

In the body of the man that they grow in the intestine, after which migrate into the lymphatics, and from there penetrate the skin and are localized in the subcutaneous tissue. Among the symptoms may be heat, swelling and pain at the site of the location of the worm. But with the time of infection until the appearance of the first symptoms may take a year. But the treatment does not exist.