Thanks to the ingress of such a worm, as an oyster,in our body, a disease called enterobiosis begins. The parasite prefers to live in the human intestine, where it feels very good and actively reproduces. Children often suffer from pinworms, but adults are also immune from this parasite.
What are pinworms
These are parasitic roundworms, whose female inthe length can grow from 9 to 12 mm, and the male - from 2 to 5 mm. Female in the human body lives from one to three weeks, but the eggs of pinworms, laid in the folds of the perianal region, are able to infect other people within 5-6 hours.
Causes of appearance
Practice shows that infection with pinwormsIt happens due to non-hygiene. After staying in public places, especially in latrines, washing your hands with soap should become a habit. Eggs of a parasite can be anywhere. They are easy to pick up on the toilet seat, from bed and underwear, from children's pots. Even in the air, eggs of pinworm fly with dust.
Getting into the small intestine and stomach, pinworm eggsbegin to grow into larvae. Having reached puberty, the worms begin to abundantly multiply. Females lay eggs in the anal area, leaving the rectum and delivering unpleasant sensations to the person. Even in a dream the patient scratches an itchy place, the eggs of the worms fall under the fingernails, and during the breakfast the person re-infects himself. The cycle of parasite development begins anew.
Pinworms: what to treat
After infection, the first thing that a person feels isSoon - it's an itch of the anus. If a child complains of itching and constantly itches, you should pay serious attention to this. Another sign is intestinal disorders, expressed in diarrhea, colic of the umbilical zone and the area of the large intestine. Oysters can provoke appendicitis, serious inflammatory processes in the mucous membrane of the duodenum, lead to gastritis of varying severity.
Constant combing of patients with itchy areas provokes various dermatitis, eczema wet or dry type. Therefore, you should know what pinworms are, than to treat this disease.
If a child wakes up at night from itching, we adviseIn the morning, take a smear with a cotton swab in the area of the anus. Take the analysis to the clinic, where they will establish an accurate diagnosis. But you can take the analysis and in the polyclinic, for this you should come to the reception to the pediatrician and get a referral.
If the diagnosis is confirmed, you should starttreatment. First of all, these are measures for thorough hand hygiene, especially for babies. If you do not wash your hands before eating, the disease will go around in a circle! Be sure to cut your nails on your hands, this will allow you to thoroughly wash out microorganisms from under the nails. Treatment is conducted at all members of the family.
So, if there were pinworms, than to treat them?Mild cases of infection do not require serious treatment. It is enough to put on the enema for the night, which will wash out of the lower intestine of sexually mature individuals, after which it remains only to observe hygiene.
Pinworm: how to treat medication
More often prescribed such drugs from the parasite,as "Piperazin", "Vermox", "Pirantel". It should be repeated again that no medicine for pinworms will help, if you do not observe the purity of your hands. Daily it is necessary to change bed and underwear, which is washed off and thoroughly ironed with a hot iron!
