Worms are more common in adults than you think. They and their waste products cause significant damage to health and can provoke the appearance of various diseases.
Ways to get rid of the problem
You can remove worms from the human body with medicine or at home using folk methods. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. For example, various tablets and suspensions can guarantee that the desired result is achieved quickly, but they contain toxic substances. Folk recipes have a milder type of action, but are less effective, and the treatment process sometimes takes more than a week.
Medical treatment methods
Anthelmintic tablets will help to get rid of worms quickly. They are highly effective, but such drugs can be taken only after consulting a doctor. This is due to the fact that the action of most tablets is able to remove only one type of worm from the body. You must pass special tests to determine this.
1. Roundworms and nematodes
This group of parasites includes toxocara, lashes, as well as well-known pinworms and roundworms. There are many drugs in the form of tablets or suspensions for their removal.
- Albendazole medications.
- Tablets from this type of worms may contain levamisole as the active ingredient.
- Mebendazole is able to remove roundworms from the body.
- Pirantel pamoate-based tablets are highly effective in the treatment of adults.
- Drugs based on pyrvinium embonate are no less effective.
- Piperazine and carbendazim are also able to remove worms from the body.
In humans, roundworms can also be found outside the intestines. Then completely different pills are used.
In most cases, the above tablets affect only adult parasites. Therefore, it is necessary to take the drug again two weeks after the start of treatment to completely remove them from the body and prevent re-infection. In this case, it is very important to follow the dosages indicated in the instructions, because anthelmintic tablets have a fairly high toxicity.
Sometimes some additional procedures are needed: the use of laxatives or the use of enemas.
2. Get rid of tapeworms
This group includes taenosis, echinococcosis, kenurosis, taenosis, spaganosis, diphyllobotriasis, alveococcosis, hymenolepiasis, etc.
It is good to use worm tablets to remove them from an adult's body:
- Niclozamide.
- Albendazole.
- melakrin.
3. Get rid of flatworms
This group of worms includes lanceolate fluke, Chinese fluke, lung fluke, liver fluke, cat fluke. Preparations for flatworms should be prescribed by a specialist.
Treatment with folk remedies
Often people do not want to get rid of worms with drugs and use various home remedies. Folk remedies are usually less effective, but do not have a strong toxic effect. In addition, they can only eliminate adult worms. This means that the larvae may soon hatch in the human body, and the problem will continue.
You can treat worms at home in a variety of ways, so consider some of the most common.
- Chop the head of garlic or onion, pour a glass of cold water and infuse overnight. You can get rid of worms by drinking the resulting infusion on an empty stomach in the morning. This should be done with small sips. It is better to filter the infusion before use. Garlic juice can also be used as an enema at night.
- Herbal infusion. To prepare it, mix pumpkin seeds and wormwood leaf powder in a ratio of 1: 1 and pour into a glass of 0, 3 liters. Then, pour the vodka to the top and close the lid tightly. The product should be stored warm or in the sun. At the same time, it is important to shake from time to time. The home-made medicine is ready to use within a week. Take twice a day for half an hour before meals (lunch and dinner). The dose required to get rid of parasites is 50 grams at a time.
- Folk remedies can also help eliminate tapeworms and roundworms. To do this, you need to eat at least two nuts a day on an empty stomach.
- You can also defeat worms at home with the help of an enema. To prepare it, you need to make a gruel of garlic or onion and chop the tansy grass. As a result, 50 grams of the mixture should be poured into 0. 5 liters of boiling milk. Then, the instrument should be infused in a wrapped form for half an hour. The milk is then filtered and used as an enema solution. It is better to do it at night.
- The more complicated method that people use at home is as follows. Crush 100 grams of peeled pumpkin seeds, add to them 2 tablespoons of honey and half a glass of water. Use the resulting mixture on an empty stomach in the morning. Then eat a tablespoon every 60 minutes for three hours. Drink laxative after the last dose. After another 1-2 hours you need to put enema. As a result, the worms in the body die and are removed as soon as possible.
Drug prevention of the appearance of parasites
The tablets are undoubtedly very effective against worms. However, many physicians today oppose their use for prophylactic purposes. The only exceptions are:
- worms were found in one of the family members;
- there are animals in the house;
- a person comes into contact with the ground very often;
- the child attends a kindergarten, school or other institution with a large number of children;
- family members love fishing, hunting, active games (football, volleyball, etc. ) on the beach or just in the fresh air.
In such cases, the probability of the appearance of worms in the body is very high. As a prophylactic drug, it is recommended to take a tool with pyrantel, as it affects the most common groups of parasites.
General preventive measures
For people accustomed to taking pills only when there is a problem, following some simple rules will help protect themselves as much as possible from the appearance of worms:
- Follow personal hygiene, wash your hands after using the toilet.
- Try to eat at home. It's not about visiting or going to cafes, it's about eating on the street.
- Fruits, vegetables and berries should be washed thoroughly before eating.
- Meat and fish must be cooked according to all the rules. Possible helminth larvae should undergo heat treatment for disinfection.