A 7-year-old boy was fatally infected by parasites. You must know these common sense…

A friend woke up early in the morning to wash his child\’s face, and suddenly discovered that his 4-year-old son had pale white spots the size of two coins on his face. He was frightened and felt nervous. The old man looked at it and disagreed: It must be roundworms or insect spots. Don\’t worry, just take some anti-worming medicine and it will be fine. My friend thinks it makes sense. He heard that there is a kind of insect-killing chocolate made by Internet celebrities. Children love to eat it and it does not contain colorings or additives, so he plans to buy it for his children. When her husband came back, he immediately stopped her and took the child to the hospital. The doctor told them that the spots on their child were not insect spots, but \”pityriasis alba\”, a mild dermatitis that could be cured with some moisturizer. Do not take deworming medicine indiscriminately. Improper deworming can easily cause various autologous infections, and the most serious ones can have irreparable consequences such as death. The doctor talked about a patient he had treated. It was a 7-year-old boy. At that time, the child had roundworms in his stool. His parents thought it was no big deal, so they gave him anti-worming medicine. A few weeks later, the little boy suddenly began to suffer from severe headaches. He kept rolling on the floor and banging his head against the wall. Mom and Dad couldn\’t stop him even if they hugged him. The parents rushed their child to the hospital for examination. Unexpectedly, during the examination, the child suddenly stopped breathing and died. An autopsy later revealed that his cranial cavity was filled with tapeworm larvae, neurocysticercosis. It turned out that the little boy had two parasites in his body at the same time: roundworms and pork tapeworms. The child\’s stool contained roundworms, but the pork tapeworm showed no symptoms. It lies quietly in the small intestine. Its flat body is composed of gestational segments, and each gestational segment contains thousands of eggs. Some anthelmintic drugs only kill adult worms but not eggs. If you take anthelmintic drugs at will, if the subsequent eggs hatch into larvae and are not discovered, the larvae will drill holes into other parts of the body, causing very serious consequences. Therefore, every time he sees someone coming to check for parasites, he will tell parents very carefully not to give their children anthelmintics without authorization. Once self-infection occurs, the consequences will be disastrous. Don\’t just follow other people\’s advice that has no scientific basis and give your children folk remedies to treat parasitic diseases. Therefore, when a child is infected with parasitic diseases, what parents should do is to take the child to the hospital to check the stool condition and deworm the child under the guidance of a doctor, rather than giving the child deworming drugs by themselves. In fact, what you can use anthelmintics to get rid of are the parasites that live in the intestines. In addition to intestinal parasites, there are many parasites that live in other parts of the human body, such as filarial worms, Toxoplasma gondii, Plasmodium, etc. Just thinking about these parasites makes my scalp tingle. They are so terrifying. They like to travel in various organs of the human body. Sometimes they reach the eyes, sometimes the corners of the mouth, and sometimes they may have penetrated into the brain… In April this year, a 12-year-old girl Jia Jia from Ningbo was completely blind in her right eye. The pupils also changed shape. Jiajia is a very caring child who especially likes small animals. Her parents raised kittens and puppies at home just for her. When Jiajia was 8 years old, her grandma noticed something strange about her right eye, which always looked outward, so she quickly told her parents and sent her to the hospital for treatment. I didn’t find out until I finished a series of checks., the child\’s right eye vision has been so bad that he can only see the fingers in front of him. The family was very confused. The child\’s eyesight was very good when he was born. He usually spent very little time watching TV or using the computer. How could it become so poor now? Later, the doctor told them that Jiajia had \”canine toxocariasis in the right eye\” and it was discovered very late that the larvae had destroyed the retina of Jiajia\’s right eye, causing irreparable damage. Jiajia\’s family regretted it so much that they never expected that the parasites in the body of the child\’s inseparable animal playmate could harm the child so badly. The parasite of \”right-eyed canine toxocariasis\” is Toxoplasma gondii, which lives in the intestines of cats, dogs and other animals. The eggs are excreted from the intestines and then come into contact with children\’s hands, toys, etc., and then enter the child\’s body through the mouth. In the intestines. Because adult worms can only develop into adult worms in the intestines of cats and dogs, in humans they attach to the intestinal wall in the form of cysts. If the child has little resistance, the cysts will be activated, hatch into larvae, burrow into the blood from the intestinal wall, and then burrow into various organs of the body, such as the brain, eyes, scrotum, etc. If a pregnant woman is infected, it can be directly transmitted to the fetus. The fetus will not show any symptoms after birth, but within a few months or even a few years, the child will suddenly develop blindness, meningitis, hydrocephalus and other serious conditions. Can cause death. In addition to Toxoplasma gondii, we are familiar with parasites such as roundworms, pinworms, tapeworms, hookworms, schistosomiasis, plasmodium, filarial worms, etc. They can also cause varying degrees of damage to children. Even though we take care of our children very carefully now, we still cannot avoid being infected with parasites. Where do they come from? Raw meat: half-cooked steak, sashimi Sushi Water: drinking raw water, contact with snail-infected lake area infected with schistosomiasis Soil: moist soil infected with parasites Insects: mosquitoes, ticks and other blood-sucking insects that are vectors Animals: Cats, dogs and other animals that are in close contact with humans must avoid parasite infections as much as possible, and they must be prevented and controlled from the source. To prevent infection with parasites, we must start from these aspects. To deal with intestinal parasites, we must pay attention to hygiene. As the saying goes: Disease enters through the mouth. Many intestinal parasitic diseases are contracted from hand to mouth contact. Therefore, paying attention to hygiene has many benefits in preventing intestinal parasites. Wash frequently and do not feed your children undercooked meat or drink water that is not boiled. Wash fruits and vegetables with running water, peel fruits, and use knives and cutting boards to separate meat from fruits and vegetables. Do not wear crotchless pants for your children and do not go barefoot outdoors. Always wash your children\’s sheets, clothes, etc. with hot water and dry them with high-temperature drying equipment. Disinfect toys, school bags, etc. with disinfectant. Prevent fluke parasites and stay away from the water in epidemic areas. No matter how beautiful the scenery is, I would not dare to take my children to play in some places, such as some lake areas, because there are various flukes in the water. To prevent fluke parasites, do not eat uncooked aquatic products, such as shrimps, crabs, etc. Avoid washing clothes, swimming, washing hands and feet in epidemic water. If contact is necessary, be sure to wear rubber shoes, gloves, or apply anti-cercarial cream on your body. Mosquito prevention and pest control are very important. Last summer, my friend took Dabao and Erbao to camp outdoors.Because it has a mountain behind and a pond in front, there are a lot of mosquitoes. The two naughty children were running around. One moment they went to the vegetable garden to look at the vegetables of their grandfathers, and the next moment Dabao ran to the back hill to catch an insect and put it in his sister\’s hand, which made her scream. The only drawback is that the child has a lot of small red bumps bitten by mosquitoes. He doesn\’t feel it when he moves, but he keeps scratching it when he eats. My friend took some anti-itching medicine and applied it on the child, but the effect was not obvious and it did not get better until the next day when he left. Less than a week later, a particularly strange little lump suddenly appeared on the child\’s face. It kept moving on its own. It started out under the left eye, then moved to the upper eyelid a few days later, and then to the child\’s upper lip a few days later. My friend quickly took the child to the hospital, did a lot of tests, and invited experts for consultation. Only then did he know that the child was infected with filariasis. Later, a minor operation was performed to remove the worm. When going outdoors, use 10%-30% DEET products to maintain a long-lasting mosquito repellent effect. But never use sunscreen with DEET, because sunscreen needs to be applied multiple times. DEET can only be applied once a day. Applying it multiple times will cause poisoning. After returning home, wash the DEET with soap or water. clean. Products containing DEET should not be used on children under 2 months old. Children over 2 months old should avoid mouth, eyes and wounds. Put the child in long clothes, long pants and a hat. If it is a trolley, it is best to prepare a small mosquito net. Keep children away from places where mosquitoes breed or lay eggs, such as small water tanks for bird feeding in the yard. Don’t take your children out in the evening. If you have pets at home, you must deworm them regularly. Children infected with parasites may come from animals, such as cats, dogs, rabbits, etc. There are many parasites on them that we cannot see, especially Toxoplasma gondii, which can reproduce sexually in the intestines of animals. Therefore, if you have small animals at home, you must: Check the pets for parasites regularly. Clean the pets every day. Small animals sometimes like to have fun at home, so be sure to clean the places that children often touch regularly. Let children wash their hands in time after petting pets. In this way, the chance of infection can be reduced. When infected with parasites, children will not feel anything in most cases, and some may have symptoms such as anemia and diarrhea. Parents should take their children regularly every year to check whether they have parasitic infections, and deworm and treat them under the guidance of a doctor. Children are our angels. Watching them grow up happily and healthily is the greatest wish of parents. Protecting them is also our important responsibility.