Worms in adults are much more common than people think. They and their wastes cause significant damage to health and can cause various diseases.
Ways to get rid of the problem
You can remove worms from the human body with drugs or at home, using folk remedies. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages. For example, different tablets and suspensions can ensure quick results, but contain harmful substances in their composition. Folk recipes are milder, but less effective, and treatment sometimes takes more than a week.
Medical treatments
Deworming tablets will help you quickly get rid of worms. They are highly effective, but such drugs can be taken only after consulting a doctor. This is because the action of most tablets can only remove one type of worm from the body. To determine it, you will need to pass special tests.
1. Roundworms and roundworms
This group of parasites includes roundworms, whipworms, as well as pinworms and roundworms. There are many medicines in the form of tablets or suspension to get rid of them.
- The drug albendazole.
- Tablets from these worms may contain the active ingredient levamisole.
- Mebendazole can remove roundworms from the body.
- High effectiveness in the treatment of adults is shown by tablets based on pyrantel pamoate.
- Drugs based on floating pirvinium are no less effective.
- Piperazine and carbendanzyme also have the ability to remove worms from the body.
Roundworms in humans can also colonize outside the intestines. Then completely different pills are used.
In most cases, the above pills only affect adult parasites. Therefore, in order to completely eliminate them from the body and prevent reinfection, two weeks after starting treatment, it is necessary to take the drug again. In this case, it is very important to adhere to the dosage indicated in the instructions, since dewormers are quite toxic.
Sometimes it is necessary to carry out some additional procedures: the use of laxatives or the use of an enema.
2. Removing Tapeworms
This group includes taeniasis, echinococcosis, coenurosis, taeniasis, sparganosis, diphyllobothriasis, alveococcosis, hymenolepiasis, etc. v.
To remove them from the body of adults, it is best to use deworming tablets based on:
- Niclosamide.
- Albendazole.
- Melacrin.
3. Remove flatworms
This group of worms includes lanceolate flukes, Chinese tapeworms, lung flukes, liver flukes, and cat flukes. Preparations for treating flatworms need to be prescribed by a specialist.
Treatment with folk methods
Usually people don't want to get dewormed with medication and use a variety of home treatments. Folk remedies are often less effective, but do not have a strong detoxifying effect. In addition, they can remove adult filariasis. And this means that it won't be long before the larvae in the human body can hatch, and the problem will continue.
You can treat worms at home in a variety of ways, so let's look at some of the most common.
- It is necessary to chop the head of garlic or onion, pour a glass of cold water and leave it to brew overnight. You can deworm by drinking the infusion in the morning on an empty stomach. This should be done in small sips. It is better to strain the infusion before use. Garlic juice can also be used as an enema, taken in the evening.
- Herbal infusion. To prepare, you mix pumpkin seed powder and sage leaves in a ratio of 1: 1 and then pour it into a 0. 3 liter jar. Next, pour the vodka on top and close the lid tightly. The product needs to be kept warm or exposed to the sun. At the same time, it is important to shake it periodically. Medicines prepared in this way at home are ready for use in a week. Drink twice a day half an hour before meals (lunch and dinner). The dosage required to get rid of the parasites is 50 grams each time.
- Folk remedies can also help get rid of ice and roundworms. To do this, on an empty stomach, you need to eat at least two walnuts a day.
- You can also beat worms at home with the help of an enema. To prepare, you should saute garlic or onion and chop the hay. 50 grams of the resulting mixture should be poured into 0. 5 liters of boiling milk. Next, the instrument must be infused for half an hour in the form of a packet. The milk is then filtered and used as an enemas. Best to do at night.
- A more complicated way that people use at home is as follows. You need to grind 100 grams of peeled pumpkin seeds into grits, add 2 tablespoons of honey and half a cup of water. Use the resulting mixture in the morning on an empty stomach. Then, for three hours, eat one tablespoon every 60 minutes. After the last dose, take a laxative. After another 1-2 hours, you need to place an enema. As a result, the worms in the body die and are removed from it as soon as possible.
Medicines that prevent the appearance of parasites
Tablets are certainly very effective against worms. But many doctors of our time oppose their use for preventive purposes. The only exceptions are when:
- worms are found in one of the family members;
- have animals in the house;
- a person who is very often in contact with the earth;
- the child attends a kindergarten, school or other facility where there are large numbers of children;
- family members enjoy fishing, hunting, active games on the beach or just in the fresh air (football, volleyball, etc. ).
In such situations, the probability of the presence of worms in the body is quite high. As a prophylactic, you should use pyrantel treatment, as it affects the most common groups of parasites.
General precautions
For those who are used to taking pills only if there is a problem, following a few simple rules will help protect themselves as much as possible from the appearance of worms:
- Maintain personal hygiene, wash hands after using the toilet.
- Try to eat at home. This is not sightseeing or coffee shop, but street snacking.
- Fruits, vegetables and berries should be washed thoroughly before eating.
- Meat and fish must be cooked according to all the rules. They must be heat treated to disinfect them from helminth larvae.