Parasites represent the largest population of living organisms on earth. There are so many varieties of them that even modern science has a hard time naming their exact number. People have very different attitudes towards them. Some believe that everything in nature is balanced and these creatures have a right to life. Others, mostly parasitologists, treat them as the name suggests, as parasites that live and feed on someone else's organism.
The vital activity of parasites, be they helminths, microscopic organisms or insect larvae living in the human body, leads to damage to internal organs. Over time, they cease to function normally and the parasitic invasion spreads throughout the body, often leading to the death of a person. Therefore, most experts consider the problem of cleansing the body urgent.
Symptoms of parasitic invasion
Parasites in the human body may not manifest themselves for a long time, but under favorable conditions they will begin to multiply rapidly and affect the health of the infected. A person will suffer not only from the helminths themselves, but also from the toxins released by them as a waste product.
It is quite difficult to determine for yourself the presence of helminths or other parasites in the body, so any diagnosis should be made by a doctor on the basis of blood, stool and urine tests and other studies. But you can suspect a parasitic invasion by the following signs:
- unreasonable irritability;
- digestive disorders;
- decreased appetite;
- severe fatigue;
- anemia.
Symptoms are not specific, they are common to many other diseases. But if they are all pronounced and a person before their appearance was in potentially dangerous situations (a trip to tropical countries, contact with homeless animals, drinking water from unverified sources), the risk of parasite infestation is veryhigh. Therefore, if many of the listed factors coincide, it is recommended to consult a doctor and be tested for the presence of parasites.
Medicinal purification of the body from parasites
Drug treatment can only be started after the test results have been received and the patient's history has been studied.
Since most antiparasitic drugs have toxic effects on the liver and kidneys, they should only be used under medical supervision. It is also necessary to select drugs with medical assistance, taking into account the type of parasites and the general condition of the infection. What is suitable for getting rid of helminths in one case may be useless in another.
The principle of action of antiparasitic drugs
The pharmacological action of drugs on parasitic worms is aimed at biochemical processes in their tissues and biological structures. As a rule, most of them have a nervous effect, which is expressed in different ways:
- By blocking the transmission of nerve impulses to the muscle cells of helminths, as a result of which they develop a state of permanent paralysis. In this state, helminths are excreted from the body along with feces.
- Violation of the absorption of glucose in the cells of the parasite, which leads to its death.
- Disruption of the activity of the intestinal canal of parasites.
There are combined-action drugs that disrupt bioprocesses in helminth cells and paralyze them.
How to properly cleanse the body of worms
The use of anthelmintic drugs for other purposes (for example, intended to get rid of another type of worm or for prevention purposes) or failure to adhere to dosages can lead to serious complications.
- If you try to get rid of worms with insufficiently effective doses, the worms will not leave the body, but will begin to migrate through it, infecting other previously untouched organs and complicating the patient's condition.
- Cleaning from parasites with insufficient doses of anthelmintic agents can lead to a false impression of the effect (if the depressing effect of the drug only on helminth spawning, the tests will show a negative result), but the activityparasitic will not stop.
- Overdose can increase the toxicity of anthelmintic drugs and the person will have additional liver or kidney problems if they take them.
Therefore, before starting to cleanse the body of parasites, it is necessary to undergo a thorough examination and make the selection of the most suitable drugs.
Antiparasitic cleaning with medicines
When a person learns about the presence of parasites in their body, they usually go into shock and try to learn how to get worms out of the body as soon as possible. But you need to hurry with only one thing - immediately visit a doctor, undergo an additional examination to clarify the type of helminthiasis and choose the appropriate treatment regimen.
The fight against ascariasis, enterobiasis (pinworms) and other nematode helminthiases requires the use of certain medications prescribed by a specialist.
Treatment of enterobiasis
The fight against pinworms, the infection with which enterobiasis is called, requires special attention.
These parasites can crawl out of the anus at night and release microscopic eggs in large quantities outside the human body.
Therefore, their eggs can end up on the underwear and hands of a sleeping person during involuntary scratching, especially under the nails. And then they can spread throughout the house, settling with dust on upholstered furniture, curtains, walls, doorknobs and children's toys. They maintain their vitality for several years and can cause infections in a large number of people. Therefore, in the house where the person infected with pinworms lives, special precautions should be observed:
- Parasitic cleansing of the body should be performed for all family members and people in the immediate environment.
- Every day a thorough wet cleaning of the house is necessary. First, you need to collect dust from floors and furniture with a vacuum cleaner, and then wash the floor with laundry soap (it is more effective for cleaning worms than household chemicals, even those containing chlorine).
- After cleaning, wash your hands with laundry soap.
- Underwear and bed linen should be washed with the hottest water possible and should be ironed.
- Make sure you wash your hands with soap and water after using the bathroom and before eating.
- Cut children's nails short, put them to sleep in tight panties or pajamas that need to be washed every day.
Clean the body of parasites at home
Often people infected with helminths are interested in the question of whether it is possible to quickly get rid of parasites at home and how to remove parasites from the human body at home.
It should be noted that the effectiveness of the action of numerous folk remedies that promise rapid disposal of parasites has never been scientifically researched by anyone, although many drugs that ensure the elimination of parasites use natural ingredients - plantsmedicines.
The recipes proposed for herbal decoctions or infusions may contain insufficient or excessive quantities of the active ingredient, therefore using them alone is extremely dangerous and can lead to the complications described above. To determine the dosage and duration of such treatment, consultation with a doctor is required.
How to cleanse the body - treatment principles
Complete anthelmintic cleansing of the body should be based on the following principles:
- Destroy helminths with an anthelmintic agent.
- Remove dead or paralyzed parasites from the intestines with laxatives or a cleansing enema.
- In order to avoid allergic manifestations, antihistamines should be taken during cleansing.
- In severe cases, accompanied by damage to internal organs, restorative therapy is required (for example, taking hepatoprotectors for liver damage). It is also necessary to purify yourself of toxins and toxins deriving from the activity of parasites.
- To normalize the functions of the whole body, it is necessary to observe a complete and balanced diet that excludes foods that damage the liver, kidneys and gastrointestinal tract.
The most popular ways to get rid of parasites
Before carrying out antiparasitic cleansing of the body, it is strongly recommended to consult a doctor regarding contraindications. In addition, patients often have an individual intolerance to certain folk remedies.
- Many people consider the simplest but effective way to use spicy foods - garlic, onion, mustard, pepper. Despite the apparent plausibility of this method, it is dangerous to clean with this method: in large quantities, burning foods can damage the intestinal mucosa.
- There is a version about the benefits of dry fasting: Presumably devoid of nourishment, worms literally leave the body on the third or fifth day. But this is an incorrect opinion: for example, tapeworms are able to live for months without food from the outside, contenting themselves with fragments of their own body. For their vitality, it is enough that the head and neck survive, and the rest of the body can be "eaten" and restored again. They are not sensitive to hunger and parasites that live in a person's blood, eyes, brain and spinal cord, genitourinary system, heart, or that create cysts in these organs.
- Cleaning with soda or hydrogen peroxide, actively promoted as a technique by a famous professor, is one of the few methods that deserves attention, but subject to medical observation of the patient's well-being. Both methods involve a gradual increase in dosage from the minimum initial doses to the maximum allowed: soda - from the tip of a teaspoon to 1 teaspoon, hydrogen peroxide - in 1 drop of a 3% solution diluted in 50 ml of mineral water ordistilled, up to 30 drops per day for 3 weeks. But the course must be prescribed by the attending physician. The technique is ineffective against parasite eggs and larvae, as well as against some varieties of adults.
In an effort to get rid of the problem quickly, you shouldn't risk resorting to extreme cleaning methods and looking for how you can still destroy unwanted guests in the body. Such zeal can end with the destruction of not only helminths, but also internal organs that are not designed for forced therapy with tansy, wormwood and other medicinal herbs.
Advocates of natural treatment can consult a doctor on how to get rid of parasites with natural pharmaceutical preparations, purified of toxic impurities.