The World Health Organization has published very frightening statistics. About 95% of the people living on our planet suffer from parasitic diseases. The presence of animals in the house immediately increases this indicator to 99.9%. This type of disease takes 14 million lives annually. If we add to the above statistics the fact that there are about 60 thousand types of parasites on Earth, it becomes obvious: this group of diseases is a serious threat to humans.
So says medical statistics. But her warnings include frivolously not only the population, but also practicing doctors. Here is what they write in medical guides about such a dangerous parasitic disease as echinococcosis: "echinococcosis is a rare chronic disease of animals and humans caused by the larva of the parasite Echinococcus granulosus. It is common in Central Asia, Crimea, Georgia, Siberia and Yakutia." The gross error of this statement is that echinococcosis, in fact, is common and almost ubiquitous. This fact will be confirmed by any veterinary and sanitary expert examining the internal organs of animals after slaughter. Just medical parasitologists in clinics are rare, and general practitioners, observing certain symptoms, do not diagnose echinococcosis.
So, what are the symptoms of this disease? Echinococcosis can be determined only by symptoms or additional diagnostic methods are required ?
For this invasion, headache, a constant feeling of fatigue, jaundice, various manifestations of allergic reactions, up to anaphylactic shock, are typical. Constant aching pain in the affected organs. And the liver, lungs, kidneys, and sometimes even the spleen can be affected. The symptomatology of the disease is nonspecific; a number of presumptive diagnoses can be made from it. Moreover, the manifestation of the pain syndrome depends on the stage of the disease and the localization of echinococcal blisters. There are 4 stages of echinococcosis:
- Asymptomatic. Once through the mouth into the gastrointestinal tract of the intermediate host (humans, pigs, cattle, small cattle, horses, deer), echinococcus eggs penetrate the blood vessels through the intestinal wall and spread to the organs with blood. A slow but irreversible process begins - the development of an echinococcal bladder. Before symptoms appear, echinococcosis will gain strength, it will take about 5 months. During this time, the size of the bubble will be no more than 10mm.
- Stage of subjective disorders. At this stage, symptoms are already observed, echinococcosis manifests itself, but uncharacteristically: weakness, fatigue, lack of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, allergies, shortness of breath, cough, abdominal pain.
- Stage of pronounced objective symptoms and pathological changes in the organs: the bubbles increase in size, grow into the tissue of the organs and, when examined on an ultrasound scan, are very similar to cysts. The number of echinococcal blisters in the body of one person can be more than a hundred.
- Complications Growing, the bubbles can disrupt the organ and cause its atrophy or the formation of abscesses on the affected organ. Possible rupture of echinococcal bladders with the manifestation of fever, chills, general intoxication of the body, the development of peritonitis and even death.
Is it possible to say unambiguously about the causes of these symptoms from the above symptoms? You can only assume the diagnosis of echinococcosis, a diagnosis that can confirm or refute it should be based on additional research methods. Detection during ultrasound of numerous cysts or tight elastic tumors on internal organs is a serious reason for additional diagnostic methods: Katsoni tests, blood agglutination reactions with latex, radiography, laparoscopy, angiography, computed tomography and ultrasound echolocation.
Minute business - to acquire a disease such as echinococcosis. Treatment is very difficult and, unfortunately, only surgical.
Based on everything written, the conclusion suggests itself: of echinococcosis, its symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, of course, you need to know, but it is much more important to know about its prevention.
- 3-4 times a year dehelment your "tailed" pets, and just avoid contacts with other people's dogs.
- After walking the dogs, wash your gloved street shoes.
- Do not feed dogs raw meat products if they have not passed the veterinary and sanitary examination.
- Do not walk in places where dogs walk.
- Wash your hands thoroughly.
- Do not eat unwashed vegetables and fruits, as well as water from open water.