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They are recommended, among other homeopathic medicines. However, homeopathy is not a field of medicine, and more importantly, its effectiveness in treating anything has not been proven. The resulting positive effects are explained by the placebo effect.
Tapeworm - what is it and how to treat it
It is worth explaining here that tapeworm is a zoonotic disease that occurs as a result of tapeworm invasion into the human body, or rather, as a result of eels (tape larvae) entering the digestive system.
If you follow simple rules of hygiene and do not eat raw meat, then, contrary to appearances, it is not so easy to “catch” a tapeworm - this flatworm needs two hosts in its development. For most tapeworm species, humans are the definitive host, that is, the host in which the worm reaches sexual maturity.
You can become infected by eating raw beef (nettle tapeworm), undercooked pork (armed tapeworm), raw freshwater fish such as trout, pike, perch, salmon, etc. (wide dimple), or by accidentally eating eggs pygmy tapeworm (from dirty hands or by eating an insect infected with pygmy tapeworm). In Poland, the most common infection is with an unarmed tapeworm.
The first symptoms in the form of excretion of eggs with feces appear, depending on the type of tapeworm, from 2 to 14 weeks after infection.
the so-called clinical symptoms are nonspecific and appear even several months after infection: abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss. Most often, the patient goes to the doctor because he noticed segments of the helminth in the feces (armed tapeworm), or - in the case of an unarmed tapeworm - on underwear. In case of tapeworm infection, megaloblastic anemia develops due to a lack of vitamin B12 and this may indicate a parasitic disease, especially when the patient eats properly and has no problems with the absorption of micro and macro elements.
Tapeworm, diagnosed in a fairly short time after infection, is completely curable, and the process of getting rid of the parasite is quite simple: it is enough to take the necessary drugs (often only one dose is needed). Only a doctor can prescribe medicines, and diagnostics should precede treatment - these are several microscopic examinations of feces. In the same way, the effectiveness of the treatment is confirmed.
What are the risks of not treating a tapeworm?
The most severe complication is cysticercosis, in which tapeworm larvae are located outside the digestive tract: in the subcutaneous tissue, skeletal muscles, central nervous system and organs of vision. Chronic headaches, loss of vision, convulsions, hydrocephalus, meningitis are possible. In severe cases, cysticercosis can be fatal.
Source: Wprost
