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, mainly parasitologists, treat them as their name suggests - like pests that live and feed on someone else's organism.
The vital activity of parasites, whether helminths, microscopic organisms or insect larvae that live in the human body, causes damage to internal organs. Over time, they stop functioning normally and the parasitic invasion spreads throughout the body, often leading to the death of a person. Therefore, most experts consider the problem of cleaning the body urgent.
Symptoms of parasitic invasion
The parasites in the human body may not manifest for a long time, but under favorable conditions, they will start to multiply quickly and affect the health of those infected. A person will suffer not only from the helminths themselves, but also from the toxins released by them as waste.
It is very difficult to determine the presence of helminths or other parasites in your body on your own, so any diagnosis must be made by a doctor based on blood, stool and urine tests and other studies. But you can suspect a parasitic invasion by the following signs:
- irrational irritability;
- digestive disorders;
- decreased appetite;
- severe fatigue;
- anemia.
The symptoms are not specific, they are common to many other diseases. But if all are spoken and a person before their appearance is in potentially dangerous situations (a trip to tropical countries, contact with homeless animals, drinking water from unverified sources), the risk of parasitic infestation is very high. Therefore, if several of the listed factors coincide, it is recommended to consult a doctor and test for parasites.
Medical cleaning of the body of parasites
The medication can only be started after receiving the test results and studying the patient's history.
Due to the fact that most antiparasitic drugs have toxic effects on the liver and kidneys, they should be used only under medical supervision. It is also necessary to select medications with medical help, taking into account the type of parasite and the general condition of the infected person. 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 targets the 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 helminth muscle cells, as a result, they develop a state of permanent paralysis. In this state, helminths are excreted from the body along with faeces.
- Impaired glucose absorption in the parasite's cells, which leads to its death.
- Interruption of parasitic intestinal canal activity.
There are drugs of combined action that interrupt the bioprocesses in helminth cells and paralyze them.
How to properly clean the body of worms
Using anthelmintic drugs for other purposes (for example, to get rid of another type of worm or for prevention purposes) or non-adherence to dosages can lead to serious complications.
- If you try to get rid of the 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 parasites with insufficient doses of anthelmintic agents can lead to a false impression of the effect (if the drug has a depressant effect only on the laying of helminth eggs, tests will show a negative result), but the parasitic activitywill not be interrupted.
- Overdose can increase the toxicity of anthelmintic drugs and the person will have additional liver or kidney problems from taking them.
Therefore, before starting to clean the body of the parasites, a thorough examination and selection of the most appropriate drugs should be done.
Antiparasitic cleaning with medications
When a person becomes aware of the presence of parasites in his body, he is usually in shock and tries to learn how to remove the worms from the body as soon as possible. But you only need to hurry with one thing - go to the doctor immediately, do an additional exam to clarify the type of helminthiasis and choose the appropriate treatment regimen.
The fight against ascariasis, enterobiasis (worms) and other roundworm helminthiasis requires the use of certain medications prescribed by a specialist.
Treatment of enterobiasis
The fight against pinworms, an infection called enterobiasis, requires special attention.
These parasites can crawl out of the anus at night and release microscopic eggs in large quantities outside the human body.
Thus, your eggs may come into contact with the underwear and hands of a person who is sleeping during involuntary scratching, especially under the nails. And then they can spread throughout the house, collecting dust on upholstered furniture, curtains, walls, door handles and children's toys. They maintain their viability for several years and can cause infection in a large number of people. Therefore, in the home where the person infected with pinworms lives, special precautions must be taken:
- Antiparasitic cleaning of the body must be carried out for all family members and people in the immediate environment.
- Complete house cleaning is required every day. First, you need to collect dust from the floor and furniture with a vacuum cleaner and then wash the floor with washing powder (it is more effective for cleaning earthworms than household chemicals, even containing chlorine).
- After cleaning, wash your hands with washing powder.
- Underwear and bedding should be washed with as hot water as possible and ironed.
- Be sure to wash your hands with soap and water after using the bathroom and before eating.
- Cut children's nails, put them to sleep with tight panties or pajamas that need to be washed every day.
Cleaning the body of parasites at home
Often, people infected with helminths are interested in the question of whether it is possible to get rid of parasites quickly 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 elimination of parasites has never been scientifically researched by anyone, although in many medicines that guarantee the elimination of parasites natural ingredients are used - medicinal plants.
The proposed recipes for decoctions or herbal infusions may contain insufficient or excessive amounts of the active ingredient, so using them alone is extremely unsafe and can lead to the complications described above. To determine the dosage and duration of this treatment, a medical consultation is required.
How to cleanse the body - treatment principles
Complete anthelmintic cleaning of the body should be based on the following principles:
- Destroy helminths with an anthelmintic agent.
- Remove dead or paralyzed parasites from the intestine with laxatives or a cleansing enema.
- To avoid allergic reactions, antihistamines should be taken during cleaning.
- In severe cases, accompanied by damage to internal organs, restorative therapy is necessary (for example, taking hepatoprotectors for liver damage). It is also necessary to cleanse yourself of toxins and toxins resulting from the activity of the parasites.
- To normalize the functions of the whole body, it is necessary to observe a complete and balanced diet that excludes foods that harm the liver, kidneys and gastrointestinal tract.
The most popular ways to get rid of parasites
Before performing antiparasitic cleaning of the body, it is highly recommended to consult a doctor about the contraindications. In addition, patients often have an individual intolerance to certain folk remedies.
- Many people consider the simplest, yet 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 food can damage the intestinal mucosa.
- There is a version of the benefits of dry fasting - supposedly deprived of nutrition, worms literally leave the body on the third or fifth day. But this is a wrong opinion: for example, tapeworms can live for months without food from outside, settling for fragments of their own bodies. For its viability, it is enough that your head and neck survive, and the rest of the body can be "eaten" and rebuilt again. They are not sensitive to hunger and parasites that live in a person's blood, eyes, brain and spinal cord, in the genitourinary system, in the heart, or creating 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 the 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 mlof mineral or distilled water, up to 30 drops daily for 3 weeks. But the course must be prescribed by the attending physician. The technique is ineffective against parasitic eggs and larvae, as well as 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 at how it can still destroy unwanted people in the body. This zeal can end in the destruction not only of helminths, but also of internal organs that are not designed for forced therapy with tansy, wormwood and other medicinal herbs.
Natural treatment advocates can consult a doctor on how to get rid of parasites with natural pharmaceutical preparations, free of toxic impurities.