14 parasites that live in humans

BED BUGS

Furniture, wallpaper, mattresses – all of this preferred habitat small flat insects known as bed bugs. They prefer to live next to people or pets, for the night without going out from their hiding places energy warm human blood.

These bed bugs are not disease carriers but can cause an allergic reaction. If the bites highly-comb, in the wound can become infected. Traits bite antiseptic or accept antihistamine.

LICE

These insects also feed on human blood. And contrary to popular belief, can live only in the head, but in general the whole body.

Lice is easier to tow through close contact with someone, someone who's already there, and fight - with the help of various means, including shampoo special.

ITCHY BED BUGS

Scabies mites cause, that penetrate into the skin and lay eggs. And the infection occurs in case of prolonged contact with the skin of a sick person.

The symptoms of scabies are itching, rash and crusting on the surface of the skin. Treated with special medications.


PORK TAPEWORM

This pest most often enters the body of a person with poorly prepared meat of pork, but also the transfer is also possible in case of contact with the feces of an infected person or animal.

Parasite that affects the intestines and the brain, which leads to disease, a headache. Depending on the severity of the disease, the treatment or does not take place at all, or used in surgical techniques.

Parasites build their lives next to us (and to us), and we about it do not suspect

Naegleria fowleri is the

Naegleria Fowler

Naegleria fowleri is the – amoeba, that live in fresh water lukewarm, the most common in South-East Asia and falls in the human body during the bath and the water penetration in the nose.

Causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis – a disease, in which it is destroyed the brain. Symptoms: headache, high fever, vomiting, confusion, seizures, balance disorders and loss of consciousness. At this moment there are only experimental drugs from such a disease, then the survival rate with him while it is extremely low.

THE NEMATODES

A group of worms (worm , trichinella, ossiuri, and so on). Most of them affects the intestines. But it's a genre, the caller trichinosis, a parasite in the muscles.

Symptoms of infection of these parasites: abdominal pain (worm), blood loss and anemia , itching in the anus (ossiuri), pain, heat, swelling of the face, redness of the eyes, skin rashes (trichinella), mucus, liquid and blood in the stool, damage to the mucosa of the colon (trichuris trichuris).

Get rid of these parasites, is possible with the help of the medicines recommended by your doctor.

INTESTINAL GIARDIA

If, after the nature trip we started to torture the symptoms such as diarrhea, bloating, cramping, nausea, then - for luck not to go in your body definitely penetrated this malicious parasite. Can be infected through food and water, but also through contact with the feces of an infected person or animal. Fortunately, it is treated rapidly and not the expensive medicines.

trypanosome

This parasite causes life-threatening, the disease of Chagas. The disease spreads a particular type of bugs. The symptoms – fever, fatigue, headache, and muscle pains, skin rashes, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting, and swelling of the eyelids – occur very quickly.

Chagas disease

The disease can lead to tensions and shocks the heart and the gut. The disease is treated with special medications.

KRIPTORIDII

These parasites affect the intestines. Spread through contact with the feces of an infected person or animal. Often the infection occurs during the bathroom. Create diarrhea may last a long time, but often does not require any treatment.

PLAZMODIUM falciparum;

Carriers of this parasite that causes malaria, are the mosquitoes. This type of malaria is considered the most dangerous and causes more deaths than all the others.

Similar symptoms, with the symptoms of flu, chills, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting. To install the software of the diagnosis is necessary laboratory test of the blood. The main thing to remember - the earlier you start therapy, the more the patient has a chance to survive.

Trichomitus

This parasite causes a disease called trichomoniasis. Most infected symptoms are absent. But some of you may feel itching, burning or irritation in the genital area. The disease is treated with antibiotics.

DIENTAMEBAFRAGILIS

The doctors still do not know how this parasite, which affects the large intestine, enters the body. Some of the disease asymptomatic, others complain of abdominal pain and diarrhea.

DIENTAMEBAFRAGILIS (Dientamoeba fragilis) occurs in all regions of the world. The doctor may prescribe special medications to combat this from the micro-organism.

TOXOPLASMA gondii

This pest will feel at home in the flesh, the water and the feces of the cat. People with toxoplasma gondii causes the disease with a similar name - toxoplasmosis. And the symptoms sometimes resemble the flu.

Pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems the symptoms may be more severe, for example, when the toxoplasmosis can form cysts in the muscles, in the brain, and also... the eyes. If necessary, it is assigned to the drug treatment.

WORM OF GUINEA

The disease caused by this parasite (its scientific name - Dracunculus medinensis), in our time, practically does not occur - through the dissemination of information about precautionary measures. The parasite enters the human body with the absorption of water, in which there were copepods cancers, infested by the larvae of a parasite.

In the human body grow in the intestine, after which they migrate in the lymphatics, and from there penetrate the skin and are localized in the subcutaneous tissue. Between the symptoms can be fever, swelling and pain at the site of localization of a worm. But from infection to the appearance of the first symptoms, years may pass. There is no cure.