Giardia, the treatment of which is a very difficult and long-term process, is increasingly spreading among young children.
Giardiasis is an infection of the parasitic type. With this disease, the small intestine is affected, but there are cases when the liver is also affected. Giardiasis is excited Giardia - these are the simplest unicellular organisms. When they enter the human gastrointestinal tract, they begin to multiply continuously, interfering with assimilation.
Lamblia worms, effective type of treatment, protection - all these topics are considered by many modern scientists. In our environment, lamblia live in the form of cysts (that is, inactive), whose viability is up to three months. Giardia enters the body when hygiene rules are not observed - unwashed hands, drinking unboiled water, eating unwashed vegetables and fruits for food. They carry giardia flies, and because of this it is necessary to exterminate these insects on the premises.
According to statistics, adults suffer from this disease 3-4 times less often. It often happens that adults do not seek medical help, do not undergo regular examinations, unlike preschoolers. But if you look on the other hand, then in a person in adulthood, immunity is much stronger and susceptibility to infections is much less.
Giardia: symptoms and treatment
Symptoms of the disease may not always be noticeable, therefore, in order to confirm the diagnosis, a coprological analysis is used in medicine - an in-depth examination of feces for the presence of Giardia cysts. But such an analysis is not always accurate, the result will depend on a correctly assembled sample. If all the rules are followed, you can find yourself in a "silent" period during which lamblia will not stand out.
Another diagnostic method will be a duodenal bioscopy, this method is considered the most accurate. There is also an immune analysis of feces, it will make it possible to identify body antigens for giardia. Use this method is not very common.
Treatment of giardiasis takes place for a long time. To exterminate all lamblia from the human body, and an adult can have several million, many courses of using special antiparasitic drugs are required. Also necessary is bowel detoxification. Giardia, the treatment of which should be carried out under the close supervision of a doctor, is loved by weak, painful people.
Success in the treatment of giardiasis will depend in no small part on the patient. One of the important parts in the treatment is the diet (mainly the limited intake of carbohydrate foods, which will facilitate the propagation of Giardia). A huge role is played by the prevention of giardiasis, as mentioned earlier - this is the extermination of flies, personal hygiene and the processing of water and food. The main symptoms of giardiasis are abdominal pain, impaired stool, mucus in the feces, bloating. Young children who are still in active growth will have noticeable symptoms, such as:
- loss of appetite;
- slowdown in growth and development;
- decrease in body weight.
But also these symptoms can be in adults.
Giardia: treatment with medications
When it enters the human digestive system, lamblia change their shape to a vegetative state. Symptoms will begin to appear after about 2 weeks from the moment of infection, when the lamblia will already be sufficiently propagated in the small intestine. On its own, the body is not able to get rid of giardia, since the rate of their reproduction is quite high.
The drugs prescribed for this disease are very harmful not only to the giardia itself, but also to the mucous membranes of the entire digestive tract. Therefore, along with medicines, you should take drugs that help against dysbiosis.
Giardia: treatment with folk remedies
Of folk remedies, only garlic can effectively cope with these tenacious parasites, eat more of it. You should limit yourself to sweets, since sweets are the favorite food of worms.
In general, we can say that giardiasis affects the human body very negatively. Giardia feeds in our body with nutrients, thereby absorbing food already digested in the small intestine. With a small number of parasites, their effect will not be very noticeable, but at the chronic stage of the disease, serious insufficiency gradually develops. Giardia also destroys the intestinal wall, which causes problems with its work. In addition, Giardia, like most organisms, emit products that are toxic to humans, which cause poor sleep, irritability, and weakness.