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Intestinal Parasites Infections

By Moler James Memoria


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Intestinal Parasites Infection

Parasitic diseases are much morewidespread than many people realizes.

These diseases affect not onlyimpoverished peoples in remotescountries but they also can be animportant health problems for rich andpoor throughout the world, including the

United States.


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Intestinal Parasites Infections

Three hundred millions peopleworldwide are severely ill with

worms and of those, at least halfare school-age children.

Parasitic worms cause malnutrition,stunted growth and diminished

intellectual capacity among millionsof children all over the world


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Intestinal Parasite Infections in

Philippines

Positive rate is 64.5%

Ascaris(51.2%)

Pinworms(0.3%)

Hookworms(8%)


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Intestinal Parasites Infections cause:

Anemia

Malnutrition Blockage of the intestine

Pancreatitis

Biliary obstruction

Pneumonia, pleurisy

Visual and auditory disorders


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Epilepsy

Hypoproteinemia

Allergic reaction Bloody diarrhea

Rectal prolapsed

Weight loss


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Chronic diarrhea

Vaginitis Parasitic meningitis

Myocarditis, heart failure

Nausea, vomiting...


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Ascaris

Ascaris is a worm that lives in the smallintestine. Adult female worms can growover 12 inches in length, adult males are

smaller.

Ascaris is the most common human worminfection. Infection occurs worldwide andis most common in tropical areas where

sanitation and hygiene are poor. Children are infected more often than

adults.


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Ascaris..


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Hookworm

Hookworm is an intestinal parasitethat usually causes mild diarrhea or

cramps. Hookworm infections occur mostly

in tropical and subtropical climatesand are estimated to infect about 1

billion people -- about one-fifth ofthe world's population


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Hookworm

Heavy infection with hookworm can

create serious health problems fornewborns, children, pregnantwomen, and persons who aremalnourished.


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How serious is Hookworm infection?

Hookworm can cause:

1-Anemia and protein deficiency

due to blood loss, 2-Loss of iron and protein can

retard growth and mentaldevelopment


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How serious is Hookworm infection?

3-Tiredness, difficulty breathing,enlargement of the heart, and

irregular heartbeat. 4-Sometimes hookworm infection is

fatal, especially among infants


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Hookworm

Hookworm


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Hookworms in blood


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Hookworms


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Pinworm infection

This infection is caused by a small, whiteintestinal worm called Enterobiusvermicularis Pinworms are about thelength of a staple and live in the rectumof humans.

While an infected person sleeps, female

pinworms leave the intestines through theanus and deposit eggs on the surroundingskin.


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Pinworm

The most common worm infectionin the United States.

School-age children have thehighest rates of infection. In somegroups nearly 50% of children areinfected..


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Pinworm

Infection often occurs in more thanone family member..

Child care centers, often havecases of pinworm infection.


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Pinworm in the stomach


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Symptoms of a pinworm infection

Itching around the anus, disturbed

sleep, and irritability are commonsymptoms. loss of appetite,restlessness, and difficulty sleeping.

Most symptoms of pinworm

infection are mild; many infectedpeople have no symptoms.


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Tapeworm

Tapeworm infection usually occurs whenyou eat food or drink water contaminatedwith tapeworm eggs or larvae.

Tapeworms occur in humans in one of twoforms. If ingested as eggs, they maydevelop into larvae that migrate out of theintestines and form cysts in other tissues

such as the lungs or liver. These cysts cancause serious problems. Or, if ingested aslarvae, they typically develop into adulttapeworms in the intestines, which usuallycause few or no symptoms.


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Tapeworm

Beef tapeworm( Taenia saginata )

Pork Tapeworm( Taenia solium)

Fish Tapeworm ( Diphyllobothriumlatum)


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Tapworm


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Treatment Of Intestinal Parasites

Intestinal Parasites infections canbe successfully treated with

medication Mebendazol and Albendazol are two

basic medicine

With Just One dose: all parasites

will be clean out from the intestine


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Prevention

Many parasitic intestinal diseasesresult from human careless and lack

of appropriate personnel hygieneand sanitation measures.

Thus, beside medication to curethem, the best solution rest in

preventing these infections.


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Parasitic life Cycles

Pinworms

Hookworms

Ascaris Tapeworm


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Pinworm


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Hookworm


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Tapeworm

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