What is giardiasis? As the giardiasis manifests itself? How to diagnose and treatment of giardiasis? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.
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Giardiasis
Giardiasis (hyardiosis) - a disease caused by a single-cellular parasite of intestinal giardia - Giardia (Lamblia) Intestinalis, which is introduced into the intestinal tissue.
Giardiasis
often occurs among children, as well as among certain categories
adults, in particular in people often traveling to developing countries,
and also in patients with chronic pancreatitis, low acidity
Gastric juice and people with remote stomach.
Infection
occurs by transmitting a cyst of a parasite from man to man. Straight
Transmission takes direct contact of the patient person
with healthy (including sexual intercourse), indirect - through dirty food
and water.
As the giardiasis manifests itself
In most cases
The disease proceeds asymptomatic. If it came to clinical
manifestations appear symptoms enteritis: nausea, salivation, loss
Appetite, pain in the octopuspic region, bloating. Chair 2-5 times
per day, abundant, liquid, frothy, green, with a sharp smell.
With severe forms of the disease, food suction may be disturbed, which is manifested by weight loss.
Giardiasis can cause dyskinesia of biliary tract, neurasthenic syndrome.
Disease
acquires a protracted character if a person neglects a personal
hygiene and swallows the cysts of the causative agent allocated with the feces.
In other cases, self-excretion is possible.
How to diagnose and treatment of giardiasis
Foundation
Diagnostics is the detection of the pathogen in the samples of intestinal juice
(from duodenal) and feces. Since the disease can last
for a long time, and parasites are derived without certain periodicity,
Could need repeat research.
For treatment
Use antiparasitic drugs, restore normal
Intestinal flora. Of great importance is the full nutrition during
Treatment.
