Giardiasis is an infectious disease that occurs everywhere and everywhere. Statistics show that of the 100% of infected on the planet 75% - children of early age( from 2 to 5 years), school children and adolescents. Breastfeeds get sick less often, only when the mother at care of the newborn does not observe the sanitary and hygienic norms, neglects them or simply ignores them. There are cases when infants become infected during labor. Many doctors, Dr. Komarovsky including( pictured), believe that asymptomatic carriage of lamblia is not dangerous for the children's organism. The old medical school draws attention to the fact that the simplest flagellum microorganisms parasitizing in the small intestine and eating juvenile juices "eat" the child. The lack of vitamins and minerals will sooner or later affect his health. That's why it is so important to know which pathological signs are capable of indicating the presence of lamblia in the child's body, what treatment is needed to get rid of unwanted carrier.
Clinical symptoms in giardiasis in children may be different, so there is no general treatment regimen. In the acute phase, the infection can manifest itself in the form:
- Syndrome lesions of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Symptoms of digestive disorders.
- Syndrome of intoxication( possible manifestations of damage to the central nervous system, the autonomic nervous system).
- Signs of persistent allergies( skin lesions and symptoms of respiratory organs diseases).
Signs of lamblias in children
As a rule, the basis of the clinical picture of giardiasis in children is the symptoms of pathology of the gastrointestinal tract. Lamblias are microscopic parasites that parasitize mainly in the upper parts of the small intestine( the photo shows how they look).They have a mechanical effect on the walls of the mucous layer, forming numerous foci of inflammation. That is why enteral disorders predominate, the intensity of which largely depends on the age of the children.
For example, in children from two to five years, the acute phase of giardiasis begins with two symptoms: the appearance of nausea and vomiting. Sometimes the baby rises to 37.0 - 39.0 degrees. The presence of infection can indicate a noticeably swollen tummy, the appearance of colic( not always).Pain in the abdomen does not have a clear localization. On the surface of the entire skin often appear rashes, outwardly similar to rubella.
Children 2-3 years of age have a stool disorder in the form of constipation or diarrhea. The liquid stool can appear up to ten times a day, while the feces are frothy, watery, without the presence of mucus and blood, such as in the photo. Similar symptoms have many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, so not every doctor can suspect lambliasis. This explains why the treatment undertaken does not bring the expected results. Very rarely, pediatricians examine a child and diagnose giardiasis, therefore, when a gastrointestinal syndrome is detected, few people go to the examination, helping to identify the real cause of intestinal infection. In a week the described symptoms disappear with themselves. At the same time, the disease passes into a chronic stage, characterized by the fact that in the future the described symptomatology is returned by waves, it manifests less intensively, but the clinical picture expands due to the appearance of a syndrome of intoxication and an increase in the allergic syndrome. Treatment in this case goes in a completely different direction.
Symptoms and treatment of giardiasis in children in chronic form
Prolonged parasitism of lamblia and worms in a child's body worsens the condition of any, even the strongest child. Parasitizing microscopic parasites gradually poisons the whole organism. Over time, children have dry skin, pale skin, shadows and circles under the eyes. Look at the photo, so looks sick. Babies up to a year often regurgitate, toddlers up to three years old suffer from symptoms of vegetative-vascular dystonia, which manifest themselves as emotional instability, irritability, tearfulness. Children in the period of sick sleep badly, eat badly, rapidly lose weight. They often complain of the appearance of symptoms of respiratory diseases, respiratory-pulmonary disease.
And these allergic manifestations, I'm sure Dr. Komarovsky, directly point to parasitic protozoa. In schoolchildren and adolescents, the pain symptom predominates, the pain is aching, it is localized in the upper parts of the peritoneum. Sometimes the pain appears in the right hypochondrium. There, where the kid points to the photo. It shows that the carriage of lamblia in children led to the defeat of the biliary tract. Treatment in this case begins with the conduct of ultrasound and other diagnostic procedures to identify dyskinesia biliary tract. Scratch of teeth in a dream, decreased vitality, fatigue, reduced concentration of attention, attacks of suffocating cough, enlargement of the liver and spleen, unreasonable enlargement of the lymph nodes are another uncharacteristic symptoms of chronic lambliasis in children. Detection of several of the above signs of parasitic infection - an occasion to consult a doctor with a specific question and reason and immediately begin treatment. Since giardiasis is successfully masked for other diseases, it can be recognized only after a laboratory examination. Only correctly identified causes will be able to prompt effective treatment.