According to the World Health Organization, more than 10 million people worldwide are infected with worms every year.Worm infections are extremely dangerous to the body due to large-scale mechanical and toxic damage.Worms destroy intestinal tissue and other organs of the body (even the heart and brain), poison humans with phenols, formaldehyde poisons and other hazardous wastes, and absorb important macro and trace elements; prevention of helminthiasis is important for both adults and children.
One of the main difficulties in fighting worms is removing them from the body.Most drugs only affect adults and cause a serious chemical "hit" to health (and therefore should not be taken regularly).The cystic forms that remain in the body, known as larvae, continue to multiply and destroy the body, reducing its ability to fight infections, chronic diseases, and trigger the development of dangerous conditions.
Therefore, the first priority is comprehensive prevention of worms, aiming to prevent them from invading the body and establishing its own protective barriers - normal, healthy flora in the intestines, a properly functioning immune system, etc.To do this you need:
- Pay attention to hygiene, especially if you belong to a high-risk group - this includes children attending kindergartens and schools, employees of sewage treatment stations, plumbers, summer residents and gardeners, agricultural and other workers;
- Pay attention to the quality of food and water;
- In addition, protective measures should be taken, since it is not enough to comply with the first two rules - take preventive courses with anthelmintics, use natural remedies, special treatments and rehabilitation complexes.
The difficulty in preventing helminthiasis is that they enter the body not only through contaminated raw water and unwashed hands, but also through air carrying eggs and cysts, seemingly safe food, and other sources.Two to four weeks after infection, patients develop acute helminthiasis, which then becomes chronic, with varying but always dangerous symptoms.However, prevention must start with hygiene and lifestyle control.
Hygienic prevention of helminthiasis
Parasitic infections usually occur through the skin and contact with contaminated objects (public buildings, toilets, and even banknotes).Therefore, in daily life it is necessary to:
- Wash your hands thoroughly after going to the toilet, coming back from outside, before eating and before personal hygiene, and trim your nails regularly (long nails are an additional risk factor);
- Perform regular wet disinfection cleaning at home;
- Monitor the cleanliness of undergarments and utensils used;
- If you have pets, check them regularly, arrange deworming and treatment, prevent pets from coming into contact with stray dogs and cats, and only walk in special places;
- Mechanical vectors against worms - flies, cockroaches, etc.
You need to be especially careful when visiting public places.You can become infected by swimming in open water, swimming pools, coming into contact with birds and animals, and playing on the beach, in a sandbox, or on park grass.Particularly susceptible to worm infection are young children who explore the world around them "by touch" and try to put everything they see into their mouths.It is impossible for parents to monitor the quality of sand in sandboxes and protect playgrounds and parks from street animals and rodents.Therefore, the issue of deworming prevention in children is very urgent.Most unpleasantly, it is possible to contract the parasite simply from the air, on foot, and not by touching the ground.
food control
Just as you are responsible for hygiene, you need to treat the quality of your products and their processing.Vegetables, fruits and herbs are most often washed with cold water, but this is not enough to kill parasites.At least it is necessary to pour boiling water over them.Meat, fish and seafood require long-term heat treatment at high temperatures and initial exposure in the refrigerator for several days.
Some more suggestions:
- Exclude rare steaks and raw fish, even sea fish, from your diet - worm larvae can stay there for a long time;
- Do not eat dry-cured sausages - due to their production techniques, parasites are not completely eliminated;
- Do not picnic near livestock and poultry farms, open water bodies and other hazardous areas.
However, even cooking meat for a long time and using only vegetables from your own garden does not guarantee you 100% against worm infection.It is necessary to take additional steps to remove the parasite from the body and prevent reinfection.
Anti-parasitic preparations and natural remedies
Doctors prescribe many medications to combat helminthiasis.Due to their high toxicity, they are usually taken once or twice, but they can disrupt the worm's metabolism and eliminate it from the body.Therefore, people who are concerned about their health take such medications even in the absence of a diagnosis - as a preventive measure.
Most commonly, broad-spectrum medications are used for prevention.These drugs have different types of active substances, they help treat different forms of helminthosis and should not be taken without prior diagnosis and doctor's prescription.This may cause more harm due to "drug shock."
Another preventive treatment option is naturopathy.The most famous of these are:
- Pumpkin seeds (must have green shells);
- garlic, onion and ginger;
- Walnut kernel tincture;
- Herbal infusions containing tansy, mugwort, celandine and other natural bitters.
Natural remedies are not very effective, the dosage required for prevention is difficult to calculate, and few people eat raw garlic and pumpkin seeds regularly and religiously.For complete prevention, "folk remedies" are obviously not enough.
In order to provide full protection against helminth infections, create a continuously "active" barrier and help the body fight parasites independently, special complexes are needed.Such products include a variety of medications that eliminate existing worms, restore the nutritional balance disturbed by worms and gently restore the normal state of the internal environment.
Natural preparations contain natural bitters and important trace elements for absorption by worms (zinc, iodine, selenium, magnesium, copper, etc.) and do not cause side effects.complex:
- Eliminates and prevents 150 worms in all forms - cysts, eggs, larvae, adults;
- Improve intestinal enzyme activity, eliminate dysbiosis, and restore gastrointestinal and liver functions;
- Compensate for the lack of trace elements and macroelements, and promote the excretion of heavy metals from the body;
- Improves external and internal conditions and helps fight many chronic diseases.
To prevent worm infections, it is recommended to take special complexes and drugs over a period of three months (with a week's rest between each time).Anti-parasitic and wellness programs are held once or twice a year, or three to four times a year if you are in a high-risk group.