The dangers of ascariasis

Ascaris is a parasite that lives in the human body. The human body can easily be infected with ascariasis. After being infected with ascariasis, a series of abnormal phenomena will occur in the body, such as vomiting and diarrhea. If the situation is more serious, it may also lead to collapse. If the roundworms are not cleared in time, they will multiply in large numbers in the body, which is quite scary.

It is very easy for us to eat roundworms in our daily life. For example, eating some raw and cold food may cause ascariasis. This disease requires patients to treat it in time, otherwise the body will suffer greater damage.

The main symptoms of biliary ascariasis

1. Nausea and vomiting

It often occurs, often accompanied by colic, and the vomit may contain bile or yellow-stained roundworms. Some are "dry retching", and the patients cannot eat normally.

2. Systemic symptoms

There is no obvious chills and fever in the early stage, but when it is complicated by acute suppurative cholangitis and cholecystitis, there may be chills, fever and jaundice. If complications occur, such as liver abscess, subphrenic infection, sepsis, etc., chills, high fever, and even toxic shock may occur.

3. Abdominal pain

It is often a sudden onset of severe colic under the xiphoid process. The patient looks pale, restless, sweats profusely, bends over and holds his abdomen, cries and shouts incessantly, and is in great pain. The abdominal colic can radiate to the right shoulder and back, but it can also suddenly relieve.

diagnosis

1. Paroxysmal abdominal pain around the umbilicus, which often occurs suddenly, has no fixed location, and can be relieved on its own.

2. There may be fever, cough or asthma, blood in sputum, wheals on the skin, teeth grinding during sleep, drooling, and itchy nose. After a long illness, the patient will become sallow and thin, irritable, and may vomit or expel ascaris.

3. Blue spots can be seen on the sclera, white worm spots appear on the face, white millet-like dots on the inside of the lips, nail spots, and cord-like roundworm clusters can be felt in the abdomen, which sometimes gather and sometimes disperse.

4. Has a history of unclean diet and vomiting and excreting ascarids.

5. Ascaris eggs can be seen in stool microscopy. Eosinophils may increase.

6. Complications such as ascariasis (biliary ascariasis) and intestinal obstruction (ascariasis intestinal obstruction) may occur.

The above is the knowledge about ascariasis introduced to you. I hope it can arouse everyone’s attention to ascariasis. We often encounter some diseases in our lives. If we suffer from a disease, we must know how to deal with it so as to minimize the damage to our body. Ascariasis cannot be ignored because it can cause great harm to the body.