Enterobiosis is considered the most common infection in the world. In some children's teams, sharpness are infected to 100% of children. Infection with sharpness causes severe itching, especially at night. If the child has become restless, sleeping badly, capricious, it may indicate the appearance of unpleasant «tenants».
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Enterobiosis - a disease caused by small parasitic coarse worms -. In the length of the mold not exceed 1 cm. Usually one end of this glove is pointed (hence the name), and the other is rounded. The color of parasites can be different: from whitish or yellow to dark or even black.
Live messels can crawl or shook. The sharpness lead the night lifestyle: it was at night that the females go into the rectum and on the skin around the rear pass, causing discomfort and itching, lay eggs in the folds of the skin and die.
How to be infected with an edge?
Infection occurs through dirty hands or contaminated objects. Child, combing or touching the skin in the crotch area, pollutes hands with worms with eggs. Infection can occur and with contamination of hands from bed or underwear, where the eggs fall from the body of a sick person. In the transfer of eggs, the role of Muh and cockroaches proved. Repeated infection through the rear passage, when the most matured individuals are moved from the skin in the intestine.
How enterobiosis is manifested?
The period from infection to the appearance of symptoms in enterobiosis is 12 - 14 days. This is the time for which the mastresses reach a hawk age. The main signs of the disease - itching or discomfort in the area of the rear pass, redness of the skin around the anal opening or in the perineum especially after the chair, the increased interest of the child to its genital organs, onanism.
In girls, besides, the molds can drive in the genital path, causing inflammatory and infectious diseases (vulvovaginitis, urethritis, thrush). The child becomes excitable in the evening, very capricious, long can not fall asleep at night, sleeps restless - often wakes up, screams in a dream, crying, rushes on the bed (at the same time normal daily sleep is saved). If there are few worms in the intestines, such symptoms may not be celebrated every day. But when the number of parasites increases - discomfort and the described symptoms can become permanent.
In addition, the sickness, like any other focus of chronic infection, can cause a violation of the normal intestinal operation (abdominal pain, increased gas formation - flatulence, constipation or diarrhea, non-refining of food and t.D.), allergic reactions, intoxication (lethargy, increased fatigue, irritability, creaknation of teeth), lead to intestinal dysbiosis.
The diagnosis of enterobiosis is not doubtful if the molds are detected. They can be seen in the evening or at night in the area of the rear pass or on the skin folds or bedding. Sometimes you can see worms in feces (usually evidenced by their large quantities).
Scraping on enterobiosis - a study for the detection of eggs of the mold (smear from the skin folds around the rear pass or sticking the adhesive tape) can «Do not detect» Diseases, if there was no egg layout on the eve. Therefore, such an analysis must be handed out in the morning, not to wash the child, it was after such a night when he could not fall asleep for a long time, slept restless.
With a negative result, it is advisable to repeat the scraping several times within 1-2 weeks, because even when complying with all recommendations, there is a significant chance to not detect the eggs of worms in the analysis. With serious suspicion of enterobiasis, you can conduct treatment, even if the molds or their eggs are not found.
Treatment with enterobiosis in a child need to be held by all family members. The course of therapy is repeated after 14 and 28 days. Hygienic events will also have to carry out: boil all bedding and private underwear on two sides from two sides, to hold a wet cleaning with the use of detergents, especially to pay attention to the restroom, hallway and door handles, wash with soap all toys, speuthes carpets. After 2 weeks, the whole set of disinfection repeat.
