Wedding Crashers: 14 signs that a child has worms

The most common disease among mankind - a bot (aka - the defeat of the worms of the body). Almost every third person is faced with this problem. And the saddest thing is that, on the basis of official data, 80% of who have caught bot - children.

A special risk group are children aged 1.5 to 5 years, as this age of active cognition of the environment and the intestinal system of children is not yet fully formed. It is for this reason that kids are more prone to infection by worms, which bring substantial harm to all systems of the body. Before you 15 signs of infection with worms that should be alerted.

Knowing the enemy 15 signs of helminths

Symptoms helminthiasis are not always immediately or are quite blurry, but most often they are "hidden" under the symptoms of other diseases, and remain undetected. This can be:

• headache, dizziness;

• skin rash (more often on the thighs, arms);

• cough (sometimes with bloody discharge)

• excessive salivation, the child wakes up in the morning on a wet pillow;

• drastic reduction or, on the contrary, increased appetite, but the kid loses much of its weight;

• bruises under the eyes, the skin becomes pale hue;

• Child disturb frequent abdominal pain;

• constipation or upset stomach may occur "sheep chair";

• nausea and vomiting in the morning;

• anal itching;

• rapid fatigue (the child quickly gets tired of the game) and lethargy (difficult to wake;

• constant irritability and neurosis (the kid breaks for any reason);

• baby falls asleep bad, bad sleep, dream fidgeting, creaks teeth (bruxism);

• become brittle hair and nails;

• child much more frequently from respiratory diseases.

Where it hides the danger?

There are so many places where a child can "pick up" the various kinds of worms (particularly common roundworm and pinworm), for example, that:

• sandpit (dangerous because the infected animal can go there);

• drop the child in the street;

• access to the public transport;

• nAlice pet;

• the use of poorly processed meat and fish, etc.

What analyzes to hand over?

It is clear that "domestic residents" of the body can be a long time to diagnose by external characteristics of the child, but without testing, we do not know whether there are worms and which kind they are, because it affects directly treatment.

So, the doctor is likely to prescribe a child to pass such studies:

• feces analysis on helminth eggs, scraping on enterobiosis (this analysis is dealt three times in order to catch the moment of reproduction of parasites):

• butnalysis of dysbacteriosis;

• blood test: general and the determination of antibodies against certain types of worms.

Prevention above all

√ wash their hands before each meal (before snacks inclusive) after a visit to the streets, especially transport, after holding money after each visit to the toilet, and so on. Etc .;

√ thoroughly wash fruits and vegetables, dousing them with boiling water, if they are consumed raw;

√ to change the underwear, preferably twice a day (morning and evening) and to iron after washing it with a hot iron;

√ children cut short nails;

√ not swim in untested waters;

√ not be given to children raw water (tap water or well);

√ do not feed the children on the street;

√ the presence of an animal in the house, to give him once a sedative three months.

How to protect the child?

Adherence to these basic hygiene rules to be vaccinated as a child good habits, will save them and you do not only worms but also intestinal infections, even more dangerous than worms.
Many doctors agree that in addition to hygiene, as needed, and medication prevention, which, in their opinion, is less dangerous than the consequences of the "host" of worms in the human body, especially in children.