Worms

Worms's disease overview

Hairworm disease is a very common intestinal worm infection, this is a third most common type of worm infection in the world, estimated at about 604–795 million people infected .

Hairworms are the most common disease in tropical and subtropical countries including Vietnam. Hairworm disease in humans often spread through feces and eating. Lack of hygiene activities can increase the risk of disease.

The most favorable condition for hair worm disease is a hot and humid climate, non -hygienic personal hygiene, backward lifestyle. People in rural areas are infected higher than people in urban areas, especially people with practices using fertilizers.

Causes of Worms's disease

pathogens: Trichuris trichiura hairworm

  • Hair worms are light pink or milky white. The female is about 30-50 mm long, the male worm is 30 - 45 mm long. Female hair worms are usually straight, male worms are often curved and have a genitals.

    • The ability to exist in the external environment: Hairworm eggs are required to have time to develop in the new external context that is likely to cause people. The time for worm eggs to develop into larvae is 17-30 days in appropriate temperature 25 - 300C, moisture above 80% and oxygen. Hair worm eggs are easily damaged under the effect of the sun, the temperature of over 500c eggs will die.

  • Regarding the level of reproduction, a female worm on average daily lays about 5,000-7,000 eggs, so the level of harmful effects of the disease is very serious if not detected and diagnosed as well as diagnosis as well as timely treatment

    • The most basic cause of people suffering from hook worms is due to eating foods, drinking water containing hair worm eggs . The infection may be caused by not being washed well and not cooked.

    Where is the live worm?

    Worms are often hidden in the soil, so if children play in land with worms and carelessly put their hands on their mouths, they are also likely to be infected.

    Symptoms of Worms's disease

    Depending on the degree of infection, there will be different symptoms, specifically:

    Mild hair worm infection: most of them do not have special symptoms; Some people may have symptoms such as abdominal pain, nausea, constipation, indigestion, headache, anorexia ...

    Hair worm infection is severe:

  • Damage to the intestinal mucosa in place, the consequences lead to digestive syndrome like dysentery syndrome (abdominal pain, defecation many times, stools at a few times and sometimes blood mixed) < /Li>
  • anemia, physical weakness and unusual weight loss ... Secondary due to this prolapse process and rectal ulcer
  • Some other cases may have rash, allergies

    • When there are symptoms on any all. People should go to the nearest hospitals/ medical centers to be examined, diagnosed by doctors and proposed timely treatment.

    Transmission route of Worms's diseaseWorms

    The container: The nematodia is c is human.

    Incubation time: unclear. People swallow hair worm eggs , when the small intestine hatches, release larvae, larvae go through the intestine into the bloodstream, move to alveoli and grow growing in the lungs, behind It is up to the trachea and is swallowed into the stomach. At the cecum, the larvae grow into mature hair worms. The time from swallowing larvae has larvae until the first symptoms in the lungs from 5 to 14 days.

    The transmission period: is the life of mature worms from the time of fertilization. The time from swallowing eggs has larvae until adult worms lay eggs about 45 - 60 days. The female worm is capable of laying up to 5,000 eggs/day. Life of hair worms from 5 to 6 years if not treated

    People at risk for Worms's disease

    Anyone may be infected with hair worms if swallowing larvae or worm eggs. In particular, infection Hairworms in children are very popular because they often play in worms and often carelessly put their hands on their mouths.

    The factors that increase the risk of worm infection include:

  • Treatment of fertilizers, wastewater, waste in the wrong process
  • Use fresh feces to fertilize, irrigate crops
  • Disocolvent with unsanitary food
  • Exposure to the environment with worm eggs.

    • Prevention of Worms's disease

    To prevent hair worm infection effectively, while limiting the pathological conditions that affect the health status everyone should:

  • Regularly propagandize education in order to improve the awareness of food hygiene and safety, personal/community or human lip protection to prevent the risk of hair worm infection. .
  • Building houses on defecation and hygienic urination. Give yourself a reasonable personal hygiene lifestyle: wash your hands thoroughly before eating and after going to the toilet
  • cooked cooked, should not eat raw vegetables when not washed.
  • Do not use fresh fertilizer to fertilize the tree
  • Living environment: Regularly launch cleaning campaigns in the community. The system of wastewater treatment and sewers must not affect the domestic water.

    • People should dewormed twice a year and deworming time can be about 4-6 months apart.

    Diagnostic measures for Worms's disease

    Most diseases infected patients have asymptomatic, clinical symptoms that only appear in severe cases, most of them are concentrated in children and subjects often exposed to many contaminated stains. Therefore, the diagnosis of Hairworm is mainly based on stool tests to find hair worm eggs .

    Worms's disease treatments

    Make a simple hair worm treatment method: Doctors will appoint Mebendazole and Albendazole to treat.

    People with hair worms often contaminate hookworms and roundworms, so they will be combined with hair worms and hookworms.

    However, before using the above drugs, you need to pay attention to the contraindications in pregnant women, children under 2 years old, liver impairment ... so you need to see a doctor. For diagnosis and the most appropriate and appropriate treatment.

    See also:

  • Hookworm disease: Causes, symptoms, how to prevent
  • Palcine disease: Causes, symptoms, how to prevent
  • R Irishworm disease: Causes, symptoms, ways to prevent
  • Tocoxara worm disease: Causes, symptoms, how to prevent

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