Living in the 21st century, our children can overtake such a banal disease as worms (pinworms).
Enterobiosis
The most "famous" helminth disease, which has neither age of patients nor specific symptoms. The only difference is that adults can tell about pain and sensations, but with children there is a problem, especially with tiny babies.
Consider how the pinworms look in children. On appearance it is a grayish-white worm, negligible in size. The length of such a parasite depends on the status of the individual: the female is up to 12 mm in size, the male is much smaller - up to 5 mm. Such a disease is very common, and your sterile purity is not a guarantee that these small carriers of the intestinal tract disorder will not cause the illness of your heirs.
Causes of the disease
Basically, this is self-infection, especially in children. Parents are not always able, for these or other independent reasons, to follow one hundred percent of all actions of the child. Even accidental contact with the pinworm, may be a trigger for infection. Not to mention the babies - well, who at the sight of the crumbs, does not want to take him in his arms, or just touch such a treasure. But in the hands of an adult man a million germs.
If you see that:
- your child is constantly crying;
- stroking him, he gives signs of pain in the abdomen;
- when bathing does not allow to wash the area of the anus.
- Perhaps in your home came trouble - signs of pinworm on the face.
Symptoms
Symptoms of infection with pinworms in children are different, it all depends on the threshold of sensitivity. Basically it is a periodic itch in the anus, which then arises, then disappears. In more acute form - vomiting, as well as loss of appetite, possible weight loss.
If to ask a question, where there live pinworms, there will be no unequivocal answer. It all depends on the body. Basically, their "favorite places" are: the cecum, the intestine and even the beginning of the large intestine. How to look like eggs, pinworms can be described, but to see them with an armed eye is almost impossible. Some parents try to consider the excrement of children themselves and see how the pinworms look. You will not discover anything new, they are all the same small hearts, just worms. If you still suspected pinworms in children, and the symptoms clearly indicate this, urgently see a doctor, because self-treatment can delay the healing process.
Symptoms of pinworm in the baby and the course of the disease are different for all. It can be a frustration, itching, which causes pain, accompanied by crying of the child, pain in the area of the intestine. Such a disease in infants is difficult to determine on their own, because a child can not tell what worries him.
Clinical diagnosis
Many do not know that for the diagnosis of pinworms, feces are not analyzed, but only a scraping around the anus is done. Do not be scared of this word, now this can be done with the help of a sticky tape (like gluing a patch), and the procedure is absolutely painless.
With a "fresh" disease, special cells can be detected in the blood test - eosinophils.
Prevention and treatment
If clinically confirmed signs of pinworm in children, then the process of treatment of this ailment begins. At the initial stage
- sufficiently strict observance of the following rules:
- washing hands with soap;
- disinfection of premises, bedding, toys, dishes;
- regular washing of the child;
- nail care;
- proper nutrition.
In complex forms of the course of the disease process, drugs in the form of levamisole are used.
Thus, the prevention of such a disease is simple - stick to hygiene and cleanliness, especially if there is a small resident in your house, your child.