Summer is gone, the parasites - no: Troubleshooting

In the summer it is very difficult to keep track of a child. Kid plenty played in the sandbox, something eaten with unwashed hands, stroked neighbor's dog ... How to make sure that his body was left unwanted guests? What are the symptoms of the disease and the dangers fraught with parasites?

Worms

Infants and preschool children are particularly susceptible to worm infestation, as their protective barriers of the gastrointestinal tract is not yet perfect. According to the observations of doctors, one in four children in this age ill with this disease. A child can get at home, on a walk, at a party or a kindergarten, in contact with contaminated surfaces or objects (street shoes, the floor in the hallway, toys, common areas), on the street, as well as contacts with animals (especially the homeless). Especially greatly increases the risk of non-compliance with worms elementary rules of hygiene (eg unwashed hands, eating unwashed fruits and vegetables, drinking unboiled water from natural reservoirs).

Parents should be alert zabolekaniya symptoms such as trouble sleeping child, loss of appetite, lack of weight gain, allergic reactions in the form of a rash on the face and body, a violation of stool, itching in the anal area, cough. Sometimes it develops intestinal obstruction due to a mechanical blockage of the lumen of the intestine parasites. Moreover, infection by worms adversely affects the child's body as a whole, reducing fatigue and improving immunity. Therefore, at the slightest suspicion should immediately take action, and preschool and primary school age - to examine each year. Keep in mind that in most cases, the infestation may be asymptomatic.

What to do?
Try to control the child's behavior, explains the rules of hygiene required. Of course, at a younger age it is quite difficult. Therefore tests on eggs of worms need to take each year, it is desirable - after the summer.
Fecal eggs of worms, it is desirable to take at least 3 days in a row. This is due to the fact that the eggs of the roundworm and pinworm appear in the stool every day, and the method of smear microscopy analysis requires great care. On the eve of the study should be excluded from the diet of the child anything that might affect the color of biomaterial - beets, carrots, diuretics.
In cases of high-risk (eg, if the child is used to pull things in the mouth), it is desirable to pass an in-depth examination, including blood tests for specific IgG. This is a blood test for antibodies to the major parasitic infections: toxocara, echinococcus, opisthorchis, Trichinella, giardia, and roundworm.

Giardiasis

Giardiasis - is also one of the most common parasitic diseases, only in this case the infection is not worms, and other, microscopic parasites - Giardia. Current epidemiological studies have shown that Giardia infected about 30% of preschool children.
Most often, these parasites in a child   plohoochischennoy appear after drinking tap water or water from open reservoirs. Sometimes giardia enter the body through household items: clothes, toys, kitchen utensils. It is also possible infection with the use of infected food products - is vegetables, berries and fruits.
Children giardiasis develops much more frequently and more severe than in adults. In the majority of cases of giardiasis in a child "masked" by other diseases, making it difficult to identify the real cause of the disease. Fairly common situation where for giardiasis hiding such chronic gastrointestinal disease, inflammation of the pancreas, dyskinesia (violation of motor activity) of the gallbladder, inflammation of the intestines of different nature, etc. Giardiasis often cause allergies, which before the child has never been.

What to do?
The most accessible method for the laboratory diagnosis of giardiasis - scatological research. It also must be repeated study, at least for 3 days.
With a negative result, it is advisable to investigate the post-graduate studies of the duodenum or the upper part of the jejunum. In addition, it is desirable to carry out a study to identify the antibodies of total classes IgA, IgM, IgG to antigens of Giardia - an indirect method for the laboratory diagnosis of giardiasis.
If you suspect the child has a disease of the gastrointestinal tract, is to conduct a biochemical blood analysis on the performance of the liver, pancreas and gall bladder. If any of the bowel (loose stools or constipation), it makes sense to pass feces on a dysbacteriosis - it will help to reveal the imbalance of normal and pathogenic flora.
To avoid allergic reaction, can be performed study Venous blood for specific antibodies of allergic reactions - Ig E (with immediate type allergic reactions) and Ig G (in delayed-type allergic reactions).
If an allergic reaction is confirmed, it is possible to establish exactly what allergen caused the disease. Season (especially when the children are taken to the nature or to the country), this panel may be weeds or trees in the home often become allergens house dust, pets, household chemicals, food.

Enterobiasis

It is the most common worm infestations not only in Russia but in many countries with temperate and cold climates. As in other cases, a core group of infected enterobiasis are children - the peak incidence between the ages of 3 to 10-14 years.
This kind of disease is characterized by the fact that the source of infection is a person who already has enterobiasis. Kid enthusiastically played with their peers? It may already be the cause of disease.
Another way of infection - via food or dust. Carriers often fly.
Symptoms of infection may also be varied, with zabolevnaie can provoke the child a variety of other diseases. For example, in the background enterobiasis children often develop urinary tract infections in girls may vulvovaginitis. Other complications can be enterobiasis appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix of the intestine), cracks in the anus, sometimes there is a bedwetting.

What to do?
At the slightest suspicion of the disease, as well as after the summer period it is necessary to examine the child to enterobiasis.
The most common type of research - fecal enterobiasis. Taking the material should be done in the morning before defecation and toilet of genitals. Kal using a cotton swab dipped in a solution of glycerin, collected from the surface of perianal folds and lower rectum in a special tube, which is issued in the laboratory. It is important to deliver biomaterial in a laboratory on the day of collection.

Information ppodgotovlena specialist independent laboratory invitro

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