Worms In Babies & Children

For you who have babies and children are expected to read the following article. Worms is still a public health problem in tropical countries. These are health problems caused by parasitic worms in the body, causing a child to malnutrition, anemia, and decreased intelligence.
 At first glance there is nothing wrong with A. But somehow, in class A always seem excited, weakness, and drowsiness. As a result, he was unable to follow the lesson well. After review, it turns out positive  worms. The World Bank states that the worms reduce the quality of human resources, especially in developing countries.
Worms that often infect humans are roundworms (Ascaris lumbricoides), whip worm (Trichuris trichiura) and hookworm (Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale).
 This occurs because the worms cause diarrhea, absorb nutrients, vitamins, and blood, and cause bleeding in the intestines. As a result, children experiencing barriers to physical development, intelligence, productivity declines, and decline in endurance so susceptible to other diseases.
 A number of worms that cover the intestinal mucosa would even inhibit the absorption of nutrients and vitamins A to facilitate the occurrence of night blindness and blindness in children.
Roundworms can even migrate to other organs, causing intestinal blockage which can lead to death.
 The disease is commonly found in areas with poor environmental sanitation conditions and poor personal hygiene, especially attacked the group of children. This is because the worm eggs can develop in soil and small children usually like to play with the soil.
Worm eggs can also infect people, for example when people defecate in the water channel and the pages around the house and eating without washing hands. Moreover, in the slums, many people defecate in the river or in the garden. If feces containing eggs of the worm, river and gardens will be polluted.
 Especially when the river water used for watering gardens planted with vegetables. Worm eggs will stick to the vegetables and be ingested when vegetables are not cooked properly.
Symptoms of worms seems to be difficult to detect if the number of worms that nest in the body is still small. Usually the symptoms will arise even if it is a lot of worm larvae that nest in the body.
Each worm eggs also have different ways to enter the body. For example, roundworms are nesting in the body with a number 100-200000 infective egg per day, usually entering through food. Similar to whip worm eggs that have 3000-5000 in the body. The hookworm eggs develop in the body other than through food as well as through the skin.
Worm control efforts as a way to overcome this problem also needs to be encouraged, through public knowledge about worms, modes of transmission, symptoms, and treatment. In addition, environmental sanitation and mass treatment also plays an important role to break the worm's life cycle.
Not only the government, the private sector too is natural to find the best way on the issue. As performed by Combantrin by organizing educational activities and disseminating the importance of preventive measures and treatment required.
Source: lifestyle.okezone.com