Giardiasis is caused by lamblia invasion, which provokes functional disorders of the small intestine.
Intestinal lamblia lives almost everywhere,so people suffer from it on any edge of the globe. As a rule, the majority of infected people remain healthy carriers, capable of infecting other people. In kindergartens and schools in Russia, infection with giardiasis reaches 40% among children and up to 10% among adults. Implies lambliasis treatment with folk remedies and medication.
Forms of existence
Inside a human, a parasite exists in two forms.The vegetative form is when lamblia live in the upper parts of the intestine, where they eat foods that split food, especially flour products and sweets. Getting into the large intestine, they pass into the spore form - into the cysts, which go into the external environment with feces. Cysts can live up to 70 days. Wet soil becomes their home for 9-12 days, if moisture is not enough, then cysts die in 4-5 days.
Acute lambliasis
In most cases, this form is found inchildren of younger age category and is characterized by diarrhea. Mostly the small intestine is affected. The temperature of the child's body can remain normal or slightly increase. The disease lasts up to seven days.
Chronic form
With this form of the disease, the patient feels a generalweakness, irritability, rapid fatigue, decreased appetite, dizziness and headaches. The facial skin turns pale so that it catches your eye, although hemoglobin remains normal. There is also an uneven coloring of the skin of the neck, axillae, and lateral surfaces of the abdomen. Atopic dermatitis can be observed. Characterized by rumbling in the intestines, bloating, unstable stool, enlarged liver.
Scheme of treatment of Giardiasis
To treat a chronic giardiasis with antiparasitic drugs is inappropriate - you can suffer from toxicoallergic complications and achieve an exacerbation of symptoms. Treatment is carried out in three stages.
At the first stage, treatment is 1-2 weeks andincludes a diet that creates unfavorable conditions for the multiplication of the parasite. It prescribes the administration of choleretic medications, enterosorbents, and fermentotherapy and antihistamines are prescribed.
At the second stage, drugs that kill the protozoa are taken: Furazolidone, Trichopol, Tiberal. Treatment with antihistamine drugs should be continued.
At the third stage, conditions are created in whichit is impossible to multiply bacteria. Suitable food is suitable for this, for example, puree from vegetables and fruits, cereals from various cereals, baked apples. Giardiasis treatment of folk remedies implies exactly at this stage. Its duration is up to three weeks.
Giardiasis. Treatment of folk remedies, precipe number 1
Birch leaves washed and laid on the bottomglass container, pour one glass of brandy, insist for three weeks. Strain and add a glass of beet juice, carrot juice, honey. It is taken before meals three times a day in 100 ml.
Giardiasis. Treatment of folk remedies, recipe number 2
3 liters of birch sap are poured into the pan,bring to a boil, then lower the flowers of calendula and close the lid. Continue to boil for 10 minutes. After which a well-wrapped pot is left for 12 hours. Insist strain, add 200 g of honey and drink half a cup three times a day. Store at the bottom of the refrigerator.
We should not forget that the treatment of giardiasis folk remedies should occur only after consulting a doctor.
