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Strongyloidosis - treatment and prevention.
Strongyloidosis is a parasitic disease related to helminthiasis. The causative agent of strongyloidosis, the nematode Strongyloides stercoralis, lives in the soil, where it gets with the feces of infected animals and people. Infection occurs through the skin, sweat glands, hair follicles in contact with the soil (walking barefoot, sitting without bedding) and orally with unwashed or poorly washed food, in violation of hand hygiene.
Strongyloides stercoralis enters the bloodstream, intestines, and respiratory tract, where it multiplies. With the blood flow, nematodes migrate to various organs, which can cause desseminated strongyloidosis - a fatal form of the development of the disease.
Strongyloidosis signs:
- When the parasite penetrates through the skin - itching at the site of penetration;
- With the penetration of the parasite into the intestines - bowel disorder (nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain), skin rash, urticarial;
- With severe development of the disease, the following symptoms are added to the above symptoms: headache, cachexia, dehydration.
Untreated strongyloidosis can take a chronic form of the course and proceed both asymptomatically and with symptoms resembling dyspepsia, colitis, duodenitis and other disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.
Treatment of strongyloidosis requires a preliminary clarification of the diagnosis based on a blood test (high number of eosinophilic leukocytes) and a biological study of feces. From medicinal antiparasitic agents, stromectol and thiabendazole are used. In addition to antiparasitic therapy, antiallergic agents are used and the body is detoxified.
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