Parasites represent the largest population of living organisms on earth. There are so many varieties of them that even modern science finds it difficult to name their exact number. People have very different attitudes towards them. Some believe that everything in nature is balanced and that these creatures have the right to life. Others, mostly parasitologists, treat them as their name suggests, as pests that live and feed on someone else's body.
The vital activity of parasites, be they helminths, microscopic organisms or insect larvae that live in the human body, damages internal organs. Over time, they stop functioning normally and the parasitic invasion spreads throughout the body, often leading to the death of a person. Therefore, most experts consider the problem of cleansing the body urgent.
Symptoms of parasitic invasion
Parasites in the human body may not manifest themselves for long, but under favorable conditions they will begin to multiply rapidly and affect the health of those infected. A person will suffer not only from the helminths themselves, but also from the toxins that they release as a waste product.
It is quite difficult to determine the presence of helminths or other parasites in your body on your own, therefore any diagnosis should be made by a doctor based on blood, stool and urine tests and other studies. But you can suspect a parasitic invasion by the following signs:
- unreasonable irritability;
- digestive disorders;
- decreased appetite;
- severe fatigue;
- anemia.
The symptoms are not specific, they are common to many other diseases. But if they are all pronounced and a person before their appearance was in potentially dangerous situations (a trip to tropical countries, contact with homeless animals, drinking water from unverified sources), the risk of parasitic infestation is very high. Therefore, if several of the listed factors coincide, it is recommended to consult a doctor and get tested for the presence of parasites.
Medicinal cleansing of the body from parasites
Medication can only be started after test results have been received and the patient's history has been reviewed.
Due to the fact that most antiparasitic drugs have toxic effects on the liver and kidneys, they should only be used under medical supervision. It is also necessary to select drugs with medical help, taking into account the type of parasites and the general condition of those infected. What is suitable for getting rid of helminths in one case may be useless in another.
The principle of action of antiparasitic drugs
The pharmacological action of drugs on parasitic worms is directed at the biochemical processes in their tissues and their biological structures. As a rule, most of them have a nervous effect, which is expressed in different ways:
- By blocking the transmission of nerve impulses to the muscle cells of helminths, as a result of which they develop a state of permanent paralysis. In this state, helminths are excreted from the body along with feces.
- Impaired glucose uptake in parasite cells, leading to its death.
- Disruption of the activity of the intestinal canal of the parasites.
There are combined action drugs that disrupt bioprocesses in helminth cells and paralyze them.
How to properly cleanse the body of worms
The use of anthelmintic drugs for other purposes (for example, to kill another type of worm or for prophylactic purposes) or lack of adherence to doses can lead to serious complications.
- If you try to get rid of worms with insufficiently effective doses, the worms will not leave the body, but will begin to migrate through it, infecting other previously intact organs and complicating the patient's condition.
- Parasite cleansing with insufficient doses of anthelmintics may give a false impression of effect (if the depressant effect of the drug only on helminth egg laying, the tests will show a negative result), but the parasite activity will notit will stop.
- Overdose can increase the toxicity of anthelmintic medications and the person will have additional liver or kidney problems from taking them.
Therefore, before you start to cleanse the body of parasites, you need to undergo a thorough examination and select the most suitable drugs.
Antiparasitic cleansing with medications
When a person learns of the presence of parasites in their body, they usually experience shock and seek to learn how to eliminate worms from the body as soon as possible. But you need to hurry with only one thing: immediately visit a doctor, take an additional examination to clarify the type of helminthiasis, and choose the appropriate treatment regimen.
Fighting ascariasis, enterobiasis (pinworms), and other pinworm helminthiases requires the use of certain medications prescribed by a specialist.
Treatment of enterobiasis
Fighting pinworms, the infection of which is called enterobiasis, requires special attention.
These parasites can exit the anus at night and release microscopic eggs in large quantities outside the human body.
Therefore, their eggs can get into the underwear and hands of a sleeper during involuntary scratching, especially under the nails. And then they can be scattered throughout the house, settling with dust on upholstered furniture, curtains, walls, door handles and children's toys. They remain viable for several years and can cause infections in large numbers of people. Therefore, special precautions should be taken in the house where the person infected with pinworms lives:
- An antiparasitic cleansing of the body should be performed for all family members and people in the immediate environment.
- A deep wet cleaning of the house is necessary every day. First, you need to collect dust from floors and furniture with a vacuum cleaner, and then wash the floor with laundry soap (it's more effective at cleaning worms than household chemicals, even those containing bleach).
- After cleaning, wash your hands with laundry soap.
- Underwear and bedding should be washed in the hottest water possible and ironed.
- Make sure to wash your hands with soap and water after using the bathroom and before eating.
- Trim children's nails, put them to sleep in tight panties or pajamas that need to be washed every day.
Clean the body of parasites at home
Often people infected with helminths are interested in whether it is possible to quickly get rid of parasites at home and how to remove parasites from the human body at home.
It should be borne in mind that the effectiveness of the action of numerous home remedies that promise rapid elimination of parasites has never been scientifically studied by anyone, although many drugs that ensure the elimination of parasites use natural ingredients: medicinal plants.
Proposed recipes for herbal decoctions or infusions may contain insufficient or excessive amounts of the active ingredient, so using them alone is extremely unsafe and can lead to the complications described above. To determine the dose and duration of such treatment, a doctor's consultation is necessary.
How to cleanse the body: treatment principles
Complete anthelmintic cleansing of the body should be based on the following principles:
- Destroy helminths with an anthelmintic agent.
- Remove dead or paralyzed parasites from the intestines with laxatives or a cleansing enema.
- To avoid allergic manifestations, antihistamines should be taken during cleansing.
- In severe cases, accompanied by damage to internal organs, restorative therapy is required (for example, taking hepatoprotectors for liver damage). You also need to cleanse yourself of toxins and toxins resulting from the activity of parasites.
- To normalize the functions of the whole body, it is necessary to observe a complete and balanced diet that excludes foods that harm the liver, kidneys and gastrointestinal tract.
The most popular ways to get rid of parasites
Before performing anti-parasitic cleansing of the body, it is strongly recommended to consult a doctor about contraindications. In addition, patients often have an individual intolerance to certain home remedies.
- Many people consider the simplest but most effective way to use spicy foods: garlic, onion, mustard, pepper. Despite the apparent plausibility of this method, cleaning with this method is dangerous; in large quantities, burning food can damage the intestinal lining.
- There is a version about the benefits of dry fasting: supposedly deprived of nutrition, the worms literally leave the body on the third or fifth day. But this is a wrong opinion: for example, tapeworms can live for months without food from outside, content with fragments of their own body. For its viability, it is enough that the head and neck survive, and the rest of the body can be "eaten" and restored again. They are not sensitive to starvation and parasites that live in a person's blood, eyes, brain, and spinal cord, in the genitourinary system, in the heart, or that create cysts in these organs.
- Cleaning with soda or hydrogen peroxide, actively promoted as a technique by a famous professor, is one of the few methods that deserves attention, but subject to medical observation of the patient's well-being. Both methods involve a gradual increase of the dose from the minimum initial doses to the maximum allowed: soda - from the tip of a teaspoon to 1 teaspoon, hydrogen peroxide - in 1 drop of a 3% solution diluted in 50 ml of watermineral or distilled, up to 30 drops daily for 3 weeks. But the course must be prescribed by the attending physician. The technique is ineffective against parasite eggs and larvae, as well as some adult varieties.
In an effort to quickly get rid of the problem, you shouldn't risk resorting to extreme cleaning methods and looking at how you can destroy unwanted hosts in the body. Such zeal can end in the destruction not only of helminths, but also of internal organs that are not designed for forced therapy with tansy, wormwood and other medicinal herbs.
Proponents of natural treatment can consult a doctor on how to get rid of parasites with natural pharmaceutical preparations, purified of toxic impurities.