Tapeworm is also known as white worm or inch white worm, a variety of tapeworm parasitism in the human small intestine caused by the disease is tapeworm disease, has been found, parasitized in the human small intestine tapeworm has more than 30 kinds, mainly to pig tapeworm, cattle tapeworm is the most common. Adult worms have a lifespan incubation period of up to about 25 years in the human intestine.
Causes of taeniasis
(1) Diet accounts for 60%. Eating uncooked pork or beef containing cysts causes the onset of tapeworm disease, cysticers enter the body through the esophagus, adsorbed on the intestinal wall and gradually split, after two or three months of development into adult worms, with the defecation, you will find that there are white worm body segments on the intimate clothing, and when the stool is discharged, you will find that there are worm body segments in the feces.
(2) Hygiene habits account for 20%. It is necessary to develop the habit of washing hands before eating and after going to the toilet to reduce the chance of diseases and insects entering the mouth; after contact with animals, they should be cleaned and disinfected to avoid mutual infection between humans and animals. In addition, the temperature and time of cooking are also important for the prevention of tapeworm infection, and cutting cooked food with a knife or cutting board that has cut raw meat may cause cysticers to contaminate cooked food and become a source of disease. In short, bad habits in life are often an important factor in the infection of tapeworm disease.
1. Common symptoms of taeniasis
(1) In the early stage of taeniasis, adult worms absorb human nutrients in the small intestine, and stimulate the intestinal wall to disturb the spleen and stomach transport, causing diarrhea, bloating, abdominal pain and dizziness, nausea, fatigue and other symptoms, long-term illness is easy to damage the spleen and stomach function, resulting in insufficient qi and blood.
(2) Taeniasis of pigs generally has no obvious symptoms, the number of parasites in the intestine is 1 to 2, and the discovery of nodal tablets in the feces is the main cause of medical treatment. Swine tapeworm disease is very easy to infect itself, causing complications, the consequences are more serious, once diagnosed should be immediately dewormed.
(3) When the bovine tapeworm disease is severely infected, the patient has the external manifestations of deficiency of qi and blood such as yellowing, pallor, and light tongue, and has symptoms of abdominal discomfort, indigestion, fatigue, anemia, headache and insomnia. Taenia bovis is more mobile, and the pregnancy joint causes a slight itching of the anus, which is often automatically discharged from the anus.
2. Complications of taeniasis
(1) When cysticers parasitize to the eye, symptoms such as optic nerve atrophy will occur, and the death of cysticers will cause vitreous opacification, retinal detachment, and will be complicated by cataracts, glaucoma and other diseases, which may eventually lead to the serious consequences of eye atrophy and blindness.
(2) Once the cysticer worm invades the brain tissue, the situation is the most serious, the symptoms are complex and different, most of them are manifested as seizures, severe increased cranial pressure, vision loss and mental disorders, which seriously damage the brain nervous system.
(3) Taeniasis patients are the source of infectious diseases, according to the invasion site of cysticercosis treatment, if it has invaded the internal organs, it is best to choose surgical treatment; such as in the epidermis or soft tissues, to carry out drug treatment as soon as possible, control infection, you can take deworming, mebendazole, pyritone and other deworming drugs.
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