Helminths exist in a huge number, over seven hundred species and their sizes range from microscopic in a few millimeters to more than a meter. A person can be a haven for several types of parasites and they can be found in virtually any organ, beginning with the digestive tract and ending with the brain and even the eyes. The danger of living worms is that they feed on the whole surface of the body, absorbing living tissues and sucking all the useful microelements.
To find out where worms live in humans, you need to know how they get into different human organs when ingestion of parasites with food, water or other means occurs. All helminths can be divided into the following classes:
- Flat worms-trematodes. They represent a small, flat body with a sucker near the oral opening and another sucker on the abdomen, for attachment.
- Cestodes that have a flat, arched body reaching a huge size. They are attached to the walls of the intestine by suckers, hooks or suctioning slits.
- Nematodes with an elongated body, round or cylindrical in shape, affect mainly children.
In turn, depending on the location, that is, the place where worms live in humans, they are divided into:
- luminal;
- fabric;
- is a mixed tissue-lumen form.
Parasites that live in the hollow organs of the digestive tract are of a luminous type. There are many such helminths, and often they live in a certain part of the intestine. Worms live mainly in the small or large intestine, in different parts of it.
Tissue worms, as can be seen from their name, live in different organs or tissues. Muscles and lungs are a favorite habitat for the pulmonary fluke( paragonimosis), lymph nodes are inhabited by filarias, and the brain can contain cysticercy worms. Ascarids belong to the mixed type, since in the form of larvae, when they initially enter the body, then any organ can attack. And then, turning into sexually mature individuals, they colonize the intestine.
The greatest danger is represented by helminths, which enter the gastrointestinal tract in the form of larvae, and then develop, turning into adult parasites, and suck out the vital juices from the body. On the question whether the worms can crawl all over the body, the answer will be positive. With the help of suckers, villi worms from the intestine begin a journey through the body, looking for a more convenient place for themselves. They can, while in this or that organ for a long time, show themselves nothing.
The manifestations of helminthiosis depend on the type of parasite, the place where the worms and the intensity of infection are located. For example, if the size of the parasites becomes very large, closing the lumen in the intestine, then obvious violations in the work of the gastrointestinal tract. When the helminths reach the lungs, fever, dry cough, and severe invasion of bronchitis, pneumonia.
Schistosomes, whipworms and some other worms live in the intestine and strongly affect the change in microflora, causing dysbacteriosis. In addition, helminths promote the development of avitaminosis, anemia. Trematodes, settled in the liver, contribute to the disease with pancreatitis, cholecystitis with cholangitis, pathology of bile ducts. Almost all helminthiases are characterized by disorders of the central nervous system. Proper treatment and the degree of danger of helminth infection depends on determining the place where worms live in humans, their type and concentration level. Finding out where the worms live, you can prescribe an adequate treatment.