Giardiasis is perhaps the most common parasitic disease that can affect a person at any age. However, most often, children suffer from giardiasis in the preschool age.
The causative agent of Giardiasis is found all over the planet.While doctors do not have accurate statistics, but according to indirect data, these parasites infected about 20% of children around the world. The carrier of the infection, in most cases, is a sick person. Infection can occur with the use of impure water, foods (especially poorly washed fruits), and through dirty hands.
Once in the human body, lamblia pass through the stomach, because they are acid-fast, and then attach to the villi of the epithelium lining the intestine.
Giardiasis can be acute, and canproceed in a chronic or asymptomatic manner. An acute form of the disease is observed in half of the sick children. The main symptoms are fever, diarrhea, weakness. The chair with this disease is liquid, foamy with floating admixtures of fat. There is flatulence, abdominal pain, which is worse with pressure. The acute stage of the lambliasis lasts about a week, then the symptoms are smoothed out, and the disease turns into a chronic form.
Since the main manifestation of lambliasis isa violation of absorption of nutrients, the symptoms of a chronic disease are pallor, fatigue, circles under the eyes, sometimes - the manifestation of allergic dermatitis.
Effective treatment of giardiasis in children occurs inseveral stages. First you need to go through the preparatory stage, during which you must follow a strict diet. It completely excludes sugar, any sweets, cow's milk. It is recommended to feed the child with porridge from buckwheat and oatmeal, boiled vegetables, boiled meat. Very useful yogurt, sour fruit, for example, from cranberries. In the same period, the reception of sorbents - bran, activated carbon, smectas, etc. begins. The goal of the treatment is the maximum cleaning of the intestine. The first stage lasts from two weeks to a month.
Further is appointed actually treatment of giardiasis in children. There are probably two solutions. The first - treatment with the use of drugs - metronidazole, tiberal, tinidazole and other antiparasitic drugs.
Perhaps also the treatment of giardiasis by homeopathy, inIn this case, select celandine, dandelion and other preparations. It is very useful to eat raw pumpkin seeds, fresh garlic or ginger. You can drink mint tea, dill water.
The last stage, which includes treatmentgiardiasis in children, is rehabilitative. At this time it is important to increase the immune forces of the child, restore the activity of the intestine and liver. During this period it is important to establish the proper nutrition of the child, it is useful to take special vitamin supplements.
To conduct treatment for lambliasis in children is not recommended, all medicines should be selected by a specialist gastroenterologist or homeopath.
If you plan to treat lambliasisfolk methods, it is also very important to adhere to the diet, the principles of which are described above. It is useful to hold a sick child with tjubazh. To do this, he is given a drink of half a glass of heated mineral water (Essentuki No. 17), in which a spoonful of sorbitol is dissolved. Such tjubazh can be done at the preparatory stage of traditional treatment. Carry out the procedure twice with a break in a week.
Preventive measures against infectionGiardiasis is to instill in the child useful hygienic skills, as well as to exclude the use of un-filtered water. If someone in the family has been diagnosed with lambliasis, then the rest of the household should be examined, even if none of them show any signs of the disease.
