Parasites represent the largest population of living organisms on earth. There are so many of them that it is difficult for even modern science to name their exact number. People have very different attitudes towards them. Some believe that everything is balanced in nature and that these creatures have a right to life. Others, mostly parasitologists, treat them as the name suggests - as pests that live and feed on other people's organisms.
The vital activity of parasites, whether they are helminths, microscopic organisms or insect larvae living in the human body, leads to damage to internal organs. Over time, they cease to function normally, and the parasitic invasion spreads throughout the body, often leading to the death of the person. Therefore, most experts consider the problem of cleansing the body urgent.
Symptoms of parasitic invasion
Parasites in the human body may not manifest for a long time, but under favorable conditions they will begin to multiply rapidly and affect the health of the infected. The person will suffer not only from the helminths themselves, but also from the toxins that are released as a waste product.
It is quite difficult to determine the presence of helminths or other parasites in your body on your own, so any diagnosis should be made by a doctor based on blood tests, feces and urine and other studies. But you can suspect a parasitic invasion by the following signs:
- unreasonable irritability;
- digestive disorders;
- decreased appetite;
- how tired;
- anemia.
Symptoms are not specific, they are common to many other diseases. But if they are all pronounced, and the person before their appearance was in potentially dangerous situations (traveling to tropical countries, contact with the homeless, drinking water from unverified sources), the risk of parasite infestation is very high. Therefore, if several of these factors coincide, it is recommended to consult a physician and be tested for the presence of parasites.
Medical cleansing of the body from parasites
Treatment can only be started after the test results have been obtained and the patient's history has been studied.
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 choose medications with medical help, taking into account the type of parasite and the general condition of the infected. What is suitable for removing helminths in one case may be useless in another.
Principle of action of antiparasitic drugs
The pharmacological action of drugs on parasitic worms is focused on biochemical processes in their tissues and their biological structures. As a rule, most of them have a nervous effect that is expressed in different ways:
- By blocking the transmission of nerve impulses to helminth muscle cells, as a result of which they develop a state of permanent paralysis. In this condition, helminths are excreted from the body along with the feces.
- Impaired glucose absorption in parasite cells, leading to its death.
- Interruption of parasite intestinal tract activity.
There are drugs of combined action that interfere with bioprocesses in helminth cells and paralyze them.
How to properly clean the body of worms
The use of anthelmintic drugs for other purposes (for example, intended to remove other types of worms or for prophylactic purposes) or non-adherence to doses can lead to serious complications.
- If you try to get rid of the worm 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.
- Cleaning from parasites with insufficient doses of anthelmintics can lead to a false impression of the effect (if the drug has a depressant effect only on laying helminth eggs, tests will show a negative result), but the parasitic activity will not stop.
- Overdose can increase the toxicity of anthelmintic drugs, and a person will have additional liver or kidney problems due to taking them.
So, before you start cleansing your body of parasites, you should undergo a thorough examination and make a selection of the most appropriate medications.
Antiparasitic cleaning with drugs
When a person learns of the presence of parasites in their body, they usually experience shock and try to learn how to remove worms from the body as soon as possible. But you need to hurry with only one - visit a doctor immediately, undergo an additional examination to clarify the type of helminthiasis and choose the appropriate treatment regimen.
The fight against ascariasis, enterobiasis (pinworms) and other helminthiases of roundworms requires the use of certain medications prescribed by a specialist.
Treatment of enterobiasis
Fighting worms, an infection called enterobiasis, requires special attention.
These parasites can crawl out of the anus at night and release microscopic eggs in large quantities outside the human body.
So their eggs can get on the underwear and hands of a sleeping person while inadvertently scratching, especially under the nails. And then they can spread around the house, settling in the dust on upholstered furniture, curtains, walls, handles and children’s toys. They maintain their viability for several years and can cause infection in a large number of people. Therefore, special precautions must be taken in the house where a person infected with pinworms lives:
- Carry out antiparasitic body cleansing for all family members and people from the immediate environment.
- Thorough wet cleaning in the house is required every day. First you have to vacuum the dust from the floors and furniture, and then wash the floor with laundry soap (it is more effective for cleaning worms than household chemicals, it even contains chlorine).
- After cleaning, wash your hands with laundry soap.
- Underwear and bedding should be washed with as warm water as possible and must be ironed.
- Be sure to wash your hands with soap and water after using the toilet and before eating.
- Trim children's nails short, put them to sleep in tight panties or pajamas that should be washed every day.
Cleansing the body of parasites at home
Often people infected with helminths are interested in the question of 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 many folk remedies that promise rapid removal of parasites has never been scientifically studied, although many drugs that ensure the removal of parasites use natural ingredients - herbs.
The proposed recipes for decoctions or herbal infusions may contain insufficient or excessive amounts of the active ingredient, so their use alone is extremely unsafe and can lead to the complications described above. In order to determine the dose and duration of such treatment, a doctor's consultation is necessary.
How to cleanse the body - principles of treatment
Complete anthelmintic cleansing of the body should be based on the following principles:
- Destroy helminths with an anthelmintic.
- Remove dead or paralyzed parasites from the intestines with laxatives or enemas for cleansing.
- 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). It is also necessary to get rid of toxins and toxins that are the result of parasite activity.
- In order to normalize the functions of the whole body, it is necessary to follow a complete and balanced diet that excludes foods that harm the liver, kidneys and gastrointestinal tract.
The most popular ways to remove parasites
Before carrying out antiparasitic cleansing of the body, it is strongly recommended to consult a doctor regarding contraindications. Also, patients often have individual intolerance to certain folk remedies.
- Many people consider the simplest but effective way to use spicy foods - garlic, onion, mustard, pepper. Despite the apparent credibility of this method, cleaning with this method is dangerous - in large quantities, burning food can damage the intestinal mucosa.
- There is a version about the benefits of dry fasting - supposedly deprived of diet, worms leave the body literally on the third or fifth day. But this is a misconception: for example, tapeworms can live for months without food from the outside, contenting themselves with fragments of their own body. For their viability, it is enough for their head and neck to survive, and the rest of the body can be “eaten” again and regenerated. They are not susceptible to starvation and parasites that live in a person's blood, eyes, brain and spinal cord, in the genitourinary system, in the heart or create cysts in those organs.
- Cleaning with soda or hydrogen peroxide, which a well-known professor actively promotes as a technique, is one of the few methods that deserves attention, but is subject to medical observation of the patient's well-being. Both methods include gradually increasing the dose from the minimum initial dose to the maximum allowed: soda - from the top of a teaspoon to 1 teaspoon, hydrogen peroxide - in 1 drop of 3% solution diluted in 50 ml of mineral or distilled water, up to 30 drops daily for 3 weeks. But the course must be prescribed by the attending physician. The technique is ineffective against eggs and larvae of parasites, as well as some adult species.
In an effort to get rid of the problem quickly, you shouldn’t risk resorting to extreme cleansing methods and looking for how you can still destroy unwanted guests in your body. Such zeal can end in the destruction of not only helminths, but also internal organs that are not intended for forced therapy with tansy, wormwood and other medicinal herbs.
Supporters of natural treatment can consult a doctor on how to get rid of parasites with natural pharmaceutical preparations, purified from toxic impurities.