What is the danger of tapeworm for a person, consequences, is it harmful?

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In summer, fishing becomes very popular. However, few people assess the potential danger of such employment. The fact is that fresh water is inhabited by a large number of various types of protozoa, many of which are parasites. The most dangerous of them is the tapeworm.

Solitaire is a kind of ribbon worm-belt that parasitizes in freshwater fish. The length of the parasite is 1 m 20 cm. Fish of the carp family are most often infected. Therefore, poorly prepared carp is potentially harmful.

The parasite enters the human body together with poorly cooked freshwater fish meat. In addition, you can get infected if you drink water from the pond. Often, domestic animals or birds are carriers of this parasite. Especially dangerous is a parasite for children. There is a tapeworm in the intestine. At puberty age, it reaches 12 meters.

Why is tapeworm dangerous for humans?

Solitaire is dangerous by the development of general intoxication of the body. Despite a great appetite, a person is rapidly losing weight. Especially dangerous is the tapeworm in that it can provoke partial intestinal obstruction. Solitaire isolates specific neurotoxins. They negatively affect the muscles and the central nervous system.

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An infected person begins to get irritated for no apparent reason, it seems to him that something is constantly stirring inside him. In this case, the movement is not performed by the parasite itself. Under the influence of neurotoxins there is an involuntary contraction and relaxation of the muscles. This poison, allocated by a tapeworm is harmful. Therefore, the parasite is dangerous for the development of psychosomatic disorders. In addition, the patient's immunity is weakened. In turn, this leads to the fact that all sorts of allergic reactions begin to develop. Quite often allergies lead to the appearance of bronchial asthma.

Violation of the normal functioning of the immune system leads to the development of various fungal diseases, for example, candidiasis. In turn, candidiasis is dangerous because it can affect the brain. Anemia( anemia), which is also often diagnosed in a person suffering from parasites, leads to brittle nails, hair loss. In an exhausted state often ends in a fatal outcome. The health consequences can be the most negative.

What are the consequences of tapeworm?

Solitaire is very dangerous for unpleasant consequences for human health. Especially if it is not treated. Gradually, the infected person decreases immunity, and in some cases, develops acute intestinal obstruction. It requires urgent surgical intervention to save human life. Often after a serious illness of the large intestine remains serious. What else is a tapeworm dangerous? No less unpleasant complications of infection are allergic diseases of severe course associated with the perverted immune response

The most dangerous is diphyllobothriosis, which is caused by the corresponding parasite. The consequences can be very serious for health. If you do not start treatment in time, then in a short time in the intestine will be a whole colony of parasites. In this case, the life expectancy of each individual is at least 20 years, and it is not possible to count on self-healing. In addition, a sick person involuntarily becomes a potential source of infection for others.

Pork and bovine tapeworms are no less dangerous to humans. Most often they lead to the development of intestinal obstruction. It is associated with mechanical blockage of the digestive tract. Usually this complication in a person develops if the tapeworm is not diagnosed on time and conservative therapy is not started. Therefore, early diagnosis is required when the slightest suspicious signs appear.

Thus, the tapeworms are dangerous for complications of the following kind:

  • Mechanical obstruction of hollow organs;
  • Compression of parenchymal organs;
  • Disruption of absorption and digestion of food;
  • Allergic diseases and reactions;
  • Immunodeficiency in the chronic course of infections caused by tapeworm;
  • Distribution of helminths to any organs with the development of multiple organ failure.
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