Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Ascariasis epidemiology


The distribution of Ascaris lumbricoides was the world, especially in warm, humid conditions and health of the region, people are more commonly infected.


1. The larval stage disease: a result of fever, cough, asthma, and blood eosinophils increased the proportion of clinical symptoms.
2. Adult disease:
a. Patients with frequent loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, as well as the performance of intermittent pain.
b. may be urticaria, skin itching, angioneurotic edema, and conjunctivitis.
c. sudden right upper quadrant colic, and right shoulder, back and lower abdominal radiation. Intermittent pain was intensified, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and so on.
Stools of patients with self-check out the egg, can be diagnosed. Can not find out on the stool in the egg, and clinical manifestations of ascariasis suspected, the diagnosis can be de-worming treatment, according to patients from the form of body for identification. Suspected pulmonary ascariasis ascarid larvae or hypersensitivity pneumonitis caused by the patients can be diagnosed Ascaris sputum examination.

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