Due to the entry of such a worm as a pinworm, a disease called enterobiasis begins in our body. The parasite prefers to live in the human intestine, where it feels very good and actively multiplies. Most often, children suffer from pinworms, but adults are also not immune from this parasite.
What are pinworms
These are parasitic roundworms, the female of which can grow from 9 to 12 mm in length, and the male from 2 to 5 mm. The female in the human body lives from one to three weeks, but pinworm eggs, laid in the folds of the perianal area, can infect other people after 5-6 hours.
Reasons for appearance
Practice shows that pinworm infection occurs due to poor hygiene. After being in public places, especially in the restrooms, washing your hands with soap should become a habit. After all, the eggs of the parasite can be anywhere. They are easy to pick up on the toilet seat, from bed and underwear, from children's pots. Even in the air, pinworm eggs fly with the dust.
Getting into the small intestine and stomach, pinworm eggs begin to germinate into larvae. Having reached puberty, the worms begin to multiply abundantly. Females lay eggs in the anus, leaving the rectum and delivering discomfort to a person. Even in a dream, the patient scratches the itchy place, the eggs of worms fall under the nails, and during breakfast the person re-infects himself. The cycle of development of the parasite begins anew.
Pinworms: how to treat
After infection, the first thing a person feels soon is itching of the anus. If a child complains of itching and constantly itches, serious attention should be paid to this. Another sign is intestinal disorders, expressed in diarrhea, colic of the umbilical zone and the large intestine. Pinworms can provoke appendicitis, serious inflammatory processes in the duodenal mucosa, lead to gastritis of varying severity.
Constant scratching of the itchy area by the patient provokes various dermatitis, weeping or dry type eczema. Therefore, you should know what pinworms are, how to treat this disease.
If a child wakes up with itching at night, we advise you to take a swab in the morning with a cotton swab in the anus. Take the analysis to the clinic, where they will establish an accurate diagnosis. But you can also take an analysis at the clinic itself, for this you should come to an appointment with a pediatrician and get a referral.
If the diagnosis is confirmed, treatment should begin. Firstturn these measures for meticulous hand hygiene, especially in babies. If you do not wash your hands before eating, then the disease will go around in circles! Be sure to trim your fingernails, this will thoroughly wash out microorganisms from under the nails. All family members are being treated.
So, if pinworms are found, how to treat them? Mild cases of infection do not require serious treatment. It is enough to put an enema at night, which will wash out sexually mature individuals from the lower intestine, after which it remains only to observe hygiene.
Pinworms: how to treat with medication
More often prescribed drugs for the parasite, such as "Piperazine", "Vermox", "Pirantel". It should be repeated once again that no medicine for pinworms will help if you do not keep your hands clean. Bed and underwear should be changed daily, which is washed and carefully ironed with a hot iron!
