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A special lesson on parasitic worms .. A dictionary of medical science in diseases and their treatments

Introduction

A special lesson on parasitic worms
We are very careful and avoid predatory and harmful beasts and stay away from them because they affect our lives, but predatory and harmful beasts hidden from sight we do not care about them even though they prey on our physical, mental and material lives, and these secret predators I mean parasites that infiltrate us either through eating and drinking or through infection infiltrated to us from people infected with this deadly disease, especially the barley or pinworm that we are talking about in this article

Worms have a strong relationship with humans, animals and even plants and we will study one or two of them because the types of worms are many and their number exceeds sixty-eight types. The hookworm duodenal (ankylostoma) is known as the flatworm or the hairy worm or the duodenal hookworm and there is another type similar to the hookworm duodenal (pinworm) and since these two types are widely spread in the Arab countries, we will study these two types in detail.

Identifying these two types:

First: The hook-mouthed worm is cylindrical in shape, has a male and a female, its color is squirrel-colored, its length is from eight to eleven millimeters and its width is from four to five millimeters. This is the male. As for the female, which is longer than the male, its length is from ten to thirteen millimeters and its width is six millimeters. As for the pinworm, it is much smaller than the hook-mouthed worm, so much so that sometimes it cannot be seen with the naked eye. It does not appear when examining the excrement, but rather appears in examining Blood sometimes ...

History of discovery: This discovery dates back to a hundred years before Christ. It is said that the first person to discover it in its true form and treat it was the famous Arab physician Ibn Sina, who called it roundworms.

How it lives and how it spreads: The female lays eggs daily, and the amount she lays per day is six thousand to twenty thousand eggs. The average amount of eggs that a single worm lays throughout its life is estimated at four million eggs. The number of worms extracted from one person per day ranges from fifty to one hundred and twenty-five worms, and sometimes up to a thousand worms.

The egg contains an egg divided into four cells, and there is a space between the egg and its shell. The egg hatches and a fetus emerges from it in less than twenty-four hours. It lives on feces and undergoes an initial change within two days. Then it grows in length. After a week, the first skin is shed and the fetus remains encased until it becomes active, then a worm emerges and begins its work. This fetus can live for a month or two in feces or under the soil. In these cases, the fetus can be infected and transmitted during this cycle, penetrating healthy skin. In this case, its skin peels off while penetrating the human skin, entering through the skin into the blood and reaching the heart, from there to the lungs, and from the lungs to the bronchi, trachea, larynx, and mouth. When the fetuses reach the mouth, they are either expelled and expelled with saliva or swallowed by the person, and they enter the stomach and from there to the small intestine, where they settle in the jejunum or duodenum around the appendix, which is why they are called the appendix worm. The fetus undergoes its third metamorphosis, which is four or five days after reaching the small intestine, and a mouth with four teeth is formed for it, so it feeds and grows until it reaches a length of four millimeters, then it undergoes a fourth metamorphosis in the intestine, and after eight days it becomes an adult worm capable of fertilization. The period between the entry of the fetuses into the human body and the appearance of worm eggs in the feces ranges between five to eleven weeks, and the life span of the worm in the human intestine is between five to six years. Method of infection in worm parasites
As for the method of infection from these crooked-mouthed worms, it is a rural disease that enters cities from the countryside through the skin when it touches human skin, it penetrates it and sometimes enters fetuses through contaminated food or drink.

Signs of its presence in humans
First: Yellowing of the face. Second: Suspicion and palpitations in the heart and on the heart. Third: Pain in the penis. Fourth: Symptoms of hysteria. Fifth: Lack of appetite for food. Sixth: A membrane in the eyes, especially when a person bends and stands up quickly. Seventh: Pain in the lower back and between the shoulders. Eighth: Itching on the door of the body and itching in the nose and inside the ears. Ninth: Teeth grinding in children while they are asleep. Tenth: It often causes nocturnal enuresis in children.

Eleventh: It often causes forgetfulness in adults, lack of quick feeling and indifference. Twelfth: It often leads the afflicted to madness. Thirteenth: The most important signs of its presence are bloating and gas in the large intestine. Fourteenth: It causes pain in the thighs and greenness in the hands. Fifteenth: It causes heartburn and acidity in the stomach. Sixteenth: It affects the menstrual cycle in women and the sexual instinct in men. Seventeenth: Appendicitis and all the work of the appendix is ​​accompanied by this worm because this worm lives on the appendix, so it is called the appendiceal worm, because the thin worm lives on it. These are its most important signs, although these worms cause one hundred and forty diseases. Treatment and methods of control to get rid of this deadly disease

This disease is treated by using enemas, which is done by five enemas with boiled mallow, chamomile or kheliya water with a spoonful of oil every forty-eight hours, one enemas on an empty stomach, provided that the infected person does not have a stomach ache or is a pregnant woman. At the same time, control is not limited to the infected person alone, but to all people living in one house because the infection is transmitted through luggage or by stepping barefoot in a house infected with this disease. It is necessary to maintain hygiene and wash hands after defecation, and one must not scratch with nails, especially after trimming them because scratching immediately after trimming nails causes scratches on the skin, which helps infection quickly. We will abbreviate mentioning the rest of the types of worms because they are treated in one way, which is by taking medications. As for this type that we talked about, there is no effective treatment for it except injections, because it lives outside the stomach around the appendix, and I advise those afflicted not to use salt water or anything else, and I prefer to use boiled mallow water with a spoonful of olive oil because the intestines of those afflicted with this disease are always inflamed. Boiled mallow water expels the worms and at the same time heals the inflammation in the intestines, and I advise those who do these injections to take a cup of boiled cumin every evening before bed, by boiling a teaspoon of cumin seeds in a cup of water, filtering it, sweetening it with sugar, and taking it before bed in the evening because it expels gas from the large intestine caused by the presence of worms.