Infection With Intestinal Parasites In Children

Reason
Infectious mainly through oral and oral route: undercooked (roundworm, pinworm, hair worms, tapeworms ...), through the skin (hookworms, eel worms). Depending on where you live and what kind of parasites you will encounter children infected

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Roundworm
Clinical symptoms
Children are pale, they do not eat well.
Manifestations in the lungs: coughing up sputum may have blood, sometimes fever. When there are many larvae into the alveoli and bronchi will cause bronchitis, pneumonia
Skin: causing hives, nonspecific rash
Gastrointestinal tract: abdominal pain, anorexia, diarrhea sometimes have fat. Worms roll into bunches causing intestinal obstruction, can enter the bile duct causing cholecystitis, biliary obstruction; Poking into the pancreatic duct causes pancreatitis, it passes through the intestinal wall, causing peritonitis.



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Diagnose
Microscopic examination for roundworm eggs,
A complete blood count revealed elevated eosinophils.
Pinworm
Clinical symptoms
Children infected with pinworms will have difficulty sleeping, or be startled, cry at night, and loose stools due to the worm crawling out of the anus in the evening to cause itching. If children use their hands to scratch, worm eggs stick to the nail when handling food will cause reinfection.
Diagnose:
Look for worm eggs in the stool by wiping or tapeing the anal area in the morning for several days in a row
Hookworms
Common in children living in the fields, farming barefoot.
Clinical symptoms:
General condition: pallor of fatigue may cause anemia
Skin: where larvae penetrate itchy, redness, blisters, ..
Gastrointestinal: abdominal pain, loss of appetite, indigestion, nausea, vomiting, sometimes with black stools, etc.
Diagnosis: based on the epidemiological area where the disease is occurring.



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Microscopic examination of hookworm eggs.
Blood count: decreased Hct, decreased Hb, increased eosinophils, decreased serum iron
Prevent
Before eating and after going to the toilet, wash children 's hands thoroughly.
Let children eat cooked food, drink boiled water to cool.
Hygiene for children to clean, regular washing mattress
Do not let children go barefoot.
Periodic worm books as prescribed.
The treatment of the disease must be based on the doctor's prescription.
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