The topic of worms is uncomfortable and uncomfortable for many. Many people prefer to think that they do not have parasites because they wash their hands before eating or do not come into contact with animals. Regrettably, such self-hypnosis does not help get rid of the problem. The World Health Organization announced that about 3 billion annually become infected with helminthic infestations, this is the data that was officially received.
Infection occurs not only from animals, moreover, 80% of animals become infected from their owners! Animals are periodically prevented because they walk outside and sometimes eat raw meat. And the hosts think about themselves that they are fairly clean and they have no such problems.
Parasites and people
Worms feel very comfortable in the human body. They get there if hygiene standards are not followed and after contact with animals. Dirty vegetables and fruits are also a source of infection, they must be washed thoroughly. Fish and meat products should always be thermally processed.
Helminths live not only in the intestines, absolutely all parts of the human body are suitable for them. Worms in the lungs of a person can also live. Although this is rare, but still there, not only in adults, but also in children. Naturally, such cohabitants are harmful to the body, only manifestations can be similar to other diseases that are usually treated. But the true cause remains undetected, and the problem is not solved.
What are the symptoms that indicate that there are parasites in the lungs?
Since it is not so easy to detect worms in the lungs, a comprehensive examination is necessary. If treatment is not done on time, then pathological changes can occur in the kidneys, and in the brain, and in the cardiovascular system. Why does the parasite settle in the lungs? And everything is very simple - he finds a favorable environment for himself in this place, where he has enough food, and he needs nothing more. Immediately after infection, you can not feel anything or even know that the worms live in the lungs of a person. Symptoms may appear much later.
Worms living in the lungs
Parasites choose comfortable habitats for themselves, although they live in different parts of the body. The most common worms in the lungs are roundworms. They can live throughout the body, their infection occurs through food. Once in the stomach, they are absorbed into the membrane of the intestines and stomach, spread throughout the body through the bloodstream and lymph, including the lungs.
When a person clears his throat, they go outside, but if the person again swallows saliva, then the worms again find themselves in the stomach.
Another type of worms in the lungs is alveococcus and echinococcus. They can not immediately affect the pulmonary system, because they have a specific protective membrane. It dissolves only due to digestive system enzymes. When the cocoon breaks down and they are released, they are transferred to the liver and lungs with lymph and blood.
Toxoplasma causes a disease such as toxoplasmosis. This simple microorganism affects the spinal cord, and the visual apparatus, and the liver.
Another type of parasite is pork tapeworm. In a healthy person, he can live long enough in the intestine, where he initially enters. If abnormalities in the gastrointestinal tract occur and the masses from the intestine enter the stomach, then larvae form. They migrate to the oral cavity. So a person infects himself. As soon as the worm gets on the mucous membranes, it also reaches the lungs by blood and lymph. This causes great damage to human health, because pork tapeworms multiply in the pulmonary system and form fibrous capsules. This leads to the formation of cysts and cysticercosis.
Common symptoms of patients with helminthic infestations
If a person has contracted roundworms, he may feel tired, he will be bothered by itching in the anus. It occurs when a female worm lays eggs. With alveococci and echinococci, rashes can occur that are similar to allergic. Palpation of the chest sometimes causes pain.
When infected with roundworms, weakness and nausea, vomiting and frustration appear. These worms in the lungs can reach several meters.
Usually, the patient perceives the defeat of helminths of the lungs as a catarrhal disease or a common disorder. But besides these, there are other manifestations of the fact that there are worms in the lungs of a person. Symptoms in the first stages of infection are generally absent. Typically, a diagnosis is made by accident during a physical examination and radiography.
All details are important.
Sometimes a number of signs nevertheless prompt experts to think that a person has worms in the lungs. Symptoms can be manifested by pain in the chest, allergic reactions. A person is tormented by coughing and shortness of breath.
The bowel movement is impaired, there are either constipation or diarrhea. The patient quickly gets tired, and his body temperature is elevated. Appetite can decrease, as a result, weight is lost. In some cases, vision drops. Different and similar symptoms can cause different worms in the lungs of a person. Symptoms, treatment are known to the doctor. All reactions of the body to a foreign life inside will be negative, because these organisms secrete their metabolic products inside a person and poison him.
Complaints of patients with alveococcosis and echinococcosis are expressed by shortness of breath, vomiting, nausea, dry cough. Often a headache and lip cyanosis is manifested. How a person feels depends on the number of capsules and their maturity. If they reach large sizes, then the bronchi are compressed, which is why respiratory failure occurs.
If the bubble bursts, then the larvae in large numbers will spread throughout the body. This can be fatal, because there is severe intoxication of the body.
Parasite Life Cycles
Prevention should be carried out regularly, because a person does not know whether he has become infected or not, and in order to prevent severe helminthic infestations, this question needs to be controlled. Treatment of worms in the lungs is carried out in other ways, it is not enough to drink one tablet. Ascaris is easier to destroy when it is in the intestine than when it penetrates the tissues. Without lungs, roundworm cannot continue its life cycle, although it does not live there permanently. In the intestines, worm eggs become larvae, and already they travel through the bloodstream through organs. (liver, heart and then lungs).
Body movement
The embryo matures for 2 weeks, and then through the respiratory tract is in the oral cavity. A person swallows parasites again into the intestines, and there they multiply further and lay new eggs.
Usually, all movements of the worms occur at night, so during this period there may be a strong cough. A pinworm patient in the evening feels itching in the anus when the female lays eggs.
The toxocara reaches 18 mm and lives not only in the lungs, but in the eyes, liver and brain. If the worm is localized in the lungs, then the person will have a dry cough and dyspnea attacks, similar to bronchial asthma.
Correct diagnosis
If with all symptoms there is an assumption that worms are in the lungs of a person, treatment is carried out only after this assumption has been confirmed. There are a number of studies that the doctor suggests conducting: lung X-ray, ultrasound. You can also apply computed tomography and scanning of the pulmonary system. In some cases, laparoscopy is performed. Thanks to hardware diagnostics, it is also possible to detect cysts, fluid accumulation and tumors, and not just helminthic invasions.
Such a diagnosis is simply necessary if there is a suspicion of an accumulation of worms in some organ. If you donate blood for analysis and worm eggs are found in it, it will still be unknown where they are localized. Analysis of feces reveals the presence of eggs of parasites that live in the intestinal tract. There is no doubt that it is terrible to have worms in the lungs. Photos of these parasites in the human body cause the most unpleasant emotions, let alone people who have to deal with this.
How to recover?
If the suspicions turned out to be true and after the examination it was confirmed that there is an infection, the doctor will suggest ways to remove worms from the lungs.
Pulmonary worms are treated with an integrated approach. This is mainly traditional therapy and, in some cases, folk remedies. Depending on the type of parasites, drugs are selected, the general condition of the person is taken into account here, there may be contraindications in some drugs. In some cases, surgical intervention is indicated.
First of all, traditional treatment is carried out. There are a number of drugs that are used most often: "Eskazol", "Albendazole", "Mebendazole", "Zentel", "Praziquantel". After taking the drugs according to the scheme, hepatoprotectors are prescribed to support the liver, and drugs to strengthen the immune system.
If necessary, medications can be prescribed that normalize the digestive system and cleanse the body of toxins. It’s not worth drinking these drugs just because they have a lot of contraindications. The body can suffer from intoxication, because it is not easy to remove dead parasites from the lungs. Surgical intervention can also be performed, at the present time it is not so problematic. A thin probe is inserted into the respiratory organs, at its end there is a miniature tool that can pull out the helminth.
Traditional medicine recipes
Not everyone wants to be treated with traditional medicine, because such treatment takes much longer and not all recipes have a miraculous effect. But if you combine such treatment with traditional, then you can hope for a favorable result.
To combat parasites living in tissues, you can use this recipe. Two small onions need to be crushed to a state of gruel and pour boiling water. Water should completely cover it. Everything should be infused for two days, and then take the received product for 4 days in a row on an empty stomach. A serving of two onions lasts for two days.
You can also drink a decoction of wormwood, cook it according to the recipe described on the package. It tastes very unpleasant and bitter.
If the parasites are in the lungs, then wormwood-based inhalations are effective. It can be made from dry wormwood, and from fresh. A dry plant is brewed, and gruel is made from green wormwood, and you need to breathe directly above it. This method is not suitable for everyone, because parasites can begin to escape through the mouth during coughing. The very thought of such an exit horrifies people.
Precautions
It is almost impossible to protect yourself from infection. Worm eggs are everywhere and are just “waiting” for a suitable occasion to be inside a person or animal. There are basic precautions to at least slightly reduce the risks. First of all, monitor your personal hygiene and accustom children to this. From unknown sources, water is also not worth drinking. It is not worth contacting infected people and animals, but there is a certain difficulty, you may not know that the animal or person is infected. Moreover, the sick person himself may not know that he is a peddler of worms.
All food products must be processed as necessary. During treatment, you need to adhere to a certain diet, exclude sweet, fried and other products that contribute to the vital activity of parasites.