Worms is a common disease and can affect anyone, so often considered trivial. Infection of worms can be experienced anyone, anytime, from children to parents. Wormy most widely experienced by children, one of the signs of intestinal worms are often the child scratching her butt. Wormy disease caused by a variety of worm infections such as the following:
Roundworm (Ascaris Lumbricoides)
Worms of this type of measure at large as a males 10 to 30 cm while the females 22 to 35 cm. These worms live in the cavity of the small intestine, has a number of eggs as many as 100,000 to 200,000 per day and can descend all ages but most of the toddlers.
Symptoms of infection with this worm if it is still in the larval form is a little bleeding in the lungs because he can enter the blood circulation, as well as cough, fever and shortness of breath. These worms in the intestine can suck nutrients, if small amounts are usually nausea, diarrhea, no appetite. But if the numbers can make a lot of malnutrition, difficulty concentrating, and decreased intelligence. For the diagnosis by determining the eggs in the feces (stool takes a bit and taken to the laboratory for examination under a microscope) or there is a worm that came out alone through the mouth or faeces.
Whipworm (Trichuris Trichiura)
Shaped like a whip with a size of about 5 cm in females and a male of about 4 cm, this worm spawn as many as 3,000 to 10,000 per day are issued with feces. If contact with the ground and swallowed it he would go to live in the intestines and colon. Life by biting the intestinal wall, causing bleeding, when it’s loose then it will bite the other parts of the intestinal wall and it stuck or hidden in the folds of the wall, and suck the nutrients.
This condition can cause continuous stimulation of the back that makes the intestine (rectum) stand out, and cause severe pain around the anus. If the worm is less than 10 then it does not cause symptoms. But if an infection occurs it can cause severe symptoms of diarrhea, dysentery, severe abdominal pain and anemia (because he sucks blood).
Pinworms (Oxyuris Vermicularis)
These worms lay eggs around the anus that cause itching is intense, thus making the child becomes fussy and have trouble sleeping. Even so this worm could migrate into the appendix and vagina. Transmission through the dust, hands, sleepwear, linens, bedding and animal dander (dog, cat) if the eggs are flying up in fur.
Pinworms are shaped like this coconut shavings laying around 11,000 to 15,000 eggs around the anus, hence if examined through the faecal worm eggs will not be visible. Pinworms are not transmitted through the soil, especially clay.
In his analysis, Dr. Feary concluded that children who are infected with hookworm have immunity to fight the allergic reaction. Therefore, these children have an allergy risk 31 percent lower than healthy children who are not worms. Experiments conducted by Dr. Feary against some participants further strengthen this conclusion. When he gives an allergy test, children are less likely to react worms such as itching, shortness of breath or sneezing.
Symptoms:
Symptoms usually emerging diseases and intestinal worms can be detected if it has been a lot of worm larvae are lodged in the body. Following this, the most common signs in children are as follows:
- Often seen scratching her ass.
- Pain in the stomach, intestinal worms can cause abdominal pain that can cause diarrhea.
- Lethargic and weak from lack of blood (anemia), usually caused by hookworms, making the body becomes weak due to lack of blood worm exploited.
- Weight loss, nutrition should be absorbed by the body also become worm food so the children will become malnourished.
- Coughing does not heal, if the worms live in the lungs that can cause prolonged cough in children.
If it looks like the above symptoms in your child, do check by examining the stool and the anus to look for signs of worms or not.
Handling:
Treatment of penerita deworming should be done as quickly as possible, not only on the patient, but also the entire family to prevent the cycle repeats. One of the precautions that must be done is to provide regular worming every 6 months, but you should first check with the feces in the laboratory if the results are positive then give a new de-worming. Still deworming drugs are generally classified as safe, if taken excessively are usually only cause side effects such as nausea but not the means should be taken every month.
More effective prevention is to improve the environment so that no worm eggs, get used to washing hands and keeping clean, cutting the nails on a regular basis (because the worm eggs could be hidden behind the nails). Or you can consult with your doctor first to get proper treatment.
prevention:
The best way is with a healthy behavior. It is recommended to prevent the spread of worm eggs by applying hygienic lifestyle. Here are some ways that can be applied to your family:
- Because worms mostly live on land, then avoid the little play ground, because it could have worms enter through the child’s fingernails.
- Do not let your nails long and family, so that the eggs of the worm is more difficult to get stuck on the sidelines of the nail.
- Familiarize children to not put the hand into the mouth.
- Wash hands and fingers until the nails clean (preferably using antiseptic soap) before eating and after defecation or urination.
- Rinse with water to clean your butt every morning, or after defecation and urination.
- Wear clean underwear at night.
- Avoid the use of underwear, or a shared towel.
- Wash bed linen, toys, and clothing on a regular basis.
- Clean dust and dirt inside the house by sweeping and mopping.
- Drinking regular worming every 6 months can kill the worms that nest.
Early symptoms of worms are not always visible, therefore check regularly to make sure children are free from worms.
