Preparations from worms. Tablets from worms for children and adults

Preparations from worms in humans are divided into means of a wide and narrow spectrum of action. They are used for different forms of helminthiases. I must say that earlier, worms could be removed from adults and children only by taking folk medicines: garlic, pumpkin seeds, male fern extract, chenopodia oil, all kinds of herbs (wormwood, tansy, etc.). Nowadays the pharmaceutical industry has taken a step forward. Today, a variety of synthetic preparations are produced from worms, which are not only more effective than folk medicine, but sometimes even less dangerous.

Which medicine to choose?

The appointment of any anthelminthic medicament should be performed by a doctor, since different preparations from worms have different activities, that is, they affect different groups of parasites. In Russia today more than seventy species of helminths have spread, which can affect the human body. The most common and known infestations that occur in many schoolchildren are pinworms. Also, children are often identified ascarids, Giardia. When treatment of worms in children is required, the drugs are selected taking into account the age, the type of invasion and the contraindications. In the arsenal of doctors today there are a lot of antihelminthic drugs, but the most often prescribed drugs are Vermox, Pirantel, Decaris, Vormil, Nemozol.

As already mentioned, all parasites are divided into groups. There are three of them: roundworms (nematodes), tapeworms (cestodes) and flatworms (trematodes). Each group is sensitive only to certain medicines, therefore, in order to understand what preparations should be used from worms, it is first necessary to find out the appearance of the affected helminth. The choice in favor of one or another medicine also depends on the general state of human health.

Preparations from nematodes

To this group of parasites include pinworm, trichinella, ascaris, toksokar and vlasoglavov. Most often, people are affected by pinworms and ascarids, the rest of the helminths are much less common. The best preparations from worm-nematodes are:

• Means "Decaris" (active substance - levamisole);
• Medicines Vermox, Vormin, Vermakar, Piperazin, Mebex, Vero-Mebendazol (active substance - mebendazole);
• Medicines "Nemozol", Vormil "(active substance - albendazole);
• Preparations "Pirantel", "Nemotsid", "Helmintox", "Combantrin" (the active substance is pyrantel pamoate);
• Medicines "Piriniumium", "Pirkon", "Vankvin" (active substance - pyrvinium embonate);
• Medicines "Medamin" (the active substance is carbendacim).

Extraintestinal nematodes should be treated by other means: "Ivermek" (active ingredient - ivermectin), "Ditrazine citrate" (active substance - diethylcarbamazine).

All these drugs from the worms in humans act only on adults, and larvae and eggs do not have a significant effect, so that even after taking the medicine, repeated self-infection is possible. To avoid this, two weeks after the initial therapy, the course should be repeated.

When the treatment of worms in children is carried out, the drugs in most cases are used the same as in adults, but in a smaller dosage. For greater efficiency of excretion from the body of parasites, you can, along with taking medications, drink a laxative or do enemas.

Preparations from cestodes

This group of helminths includes an extensive list of names: shadowarchinosises, clitoriosis, sparganoses, dipilidiosis, echinococcosis, hymenolepidoses (dwarfish chains), alveococcosis, shinose and cysticercosis (pork chains), thenidoses (bovine chains), diphyllobothrioses (broad tapeworms) and so on.

Preparations from worms of this group are used the following:

• The drug "Fenasal" (the active substance - niklosamid). It is used in the presence of any intestinal tapeworm.
• The drug "Akrihin" (active ingredient - mepakrin). Eliminates invasions by a dwarf and bullish chain, a wide ribbon. Also effective for giardiasis.
• Means "Nemozol" (the active substance - albendazole). We have already mentioned about it, it is effective both for nematodes, and for mixed invasions, lambliasis, echinococcus, neurocysticercosis and even extraintestinal cestodiasis.

Preparations for trematodes

This is a very wide class of helminths, including parasites such as clonorchoses (Chinese flukes), opisthorchoses (cat flukes), paraganomoses (pulmonary flukes), fascioliasis (liver flukes), wotsonioses (liver flukes), cercarioses, dicroceloses (lanceolate flukes), metragonimoses , Schistosomiasis, gastrodyskoidosis, nanofetosis, heterophyosis, metorchosis, fasciolopsidosis, eurythremosis.

When infesting parasites of this group, the following medicines are used:

• Means of "Biltricide", "Cysticid", "Cesol", "Azinox" (active substance - prazikvantel). They have a wide spectrum of activity and are used to treat many types of worms from the class of flatworms.
• Preparations "Bitionol", "Chloksil". These funds are intended for therapy of extraintestinal trematodes.

Tablets from worms for prophylaxis

Many people are asking about the advisability of using anthelmintic medicines for preventive purposes. On this account, the opinions of specialists vary. Some believe that pills for worms are not needed for prevention, because the medicine taken today does not protect against the risk of infection, say, tomorrow. To avoid invasion, you must follow the rules of personal hygiene, wash after the toilet and before eating your hands, regularly change your underwear. This will include prevention. And in vain taking medications from worms, which, by the way, are very toxic, people just in vain load their body.

Other specialists disagree with this opinion. They say that if the family has children of preschool or primary school age, it is necessary to carry out prophylactic reception of funds from worms for adults and children every six months.

Helminths in children

Preschool children and school children in our country have a very high level of infection with pinworms (enterobiosis). In this case, scraping often gives a false-negative result, and the symptoms may be mild. As a consequence, parents may not even know that their children have parasites in their bodies. In this regard, experts say, it is just necessary to take Pirantel, a medicine for enterobiasis, once every six months. It is very easy to pick up pinworms - they are transmitted by shaking hands, through household items, door handles, clothes, bedding, animal wool. Therefore, children from an early age should be taught to observe hygiene. If the child does not wash his hands after the toilet, the street and before meals, does not perform a daily change of underwear, then permanent self-infection (re-invasion) can occur.

It happens that the child complains of nausea, itching in the anus and abdominal pain, but at the same time scraping on enterobiasis does not reveal infection with pinworms. In such a situation, parents should insist that the doctor make two repeated tests: the next day and two weeks later. When diagnosing a child for enterobiasis, the whole family should be treated.

Indications for preventive intake of anthelmintic drugs

• Frequent contact with the land (for children who like to play in the sandbox, in rural areas).
• The presence of pets (for the prevention of pets can give a drop of worms "Profender").
• Regular finding of a child in a closed children's team.
• Frequent trips to exotic countries.
• Employment in football, beach volleyball.
• Such hobbies as fishing and hunting.

Preparations from worms for pregnant women

As it became clear, helminths can affect absolutely any person, and especially often they settle in the body of weakened people. It is not uncommon for parasites to be found in pregnant women. However, during the period of bearing the baby is forbidden to take funds from the worms, because they are so toxic that they can cause the fetus more harm than the worm infestation itself . In exceptional cases, pregnant women are allowed to take Piperazine, but only as prescribed by the doctor and not in the first trimester.

In the presence of pinworms, self-healing is possible, because these parasites live only a couple of weeks, and if you carefully observe hygiene, steaming underwear every day, the risk of re-invasion is minimized.

Finally

Want to get rid of the need to take toxic anthelmintic drugs? Then do not neglect the elementary rules of personal and intimate hygiene, wash your hands regularly with soap after coming from the street, visiting the toilet, contacting your pets. Also do not forget to wash fruit and vegetables before use. Be healthy!