Symptoms of Ascaris infection in infants

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Ascaris lumbricoides is one of the most common intestinal parasitic diseases in children. The disease can often affect the child's appetite and intestinal digestion, absorption function, hinder the child's growth and development, and can produce more complications, serious can also endanger life. The symptom that darling infects Ascaris lumbricoides? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Symptoms of Ascaris infection in infants

Among them, the degree of abdominal pain is not too serious, often paroxysmal periumbilical or slightly upper part of the umbilical dull pain, can occur repeatedly, but the duration is uncertain. Sometimes in the state of hunger, the child's abdominal pain can be more obvious.

Some children with intestinal ascariasis may have mental and neurological symptoms. Such as mental depression or excitement, headache, irritability, poor sleep, molar, easy to panic and so on. This is caused by the absorption of metabolites or disintegrates of the worm into the blood. Severe intestinal ascariasis can also be secondary to malnutrition, anemia, growth retardation and poor intellectual development.

Ascaris lumbricoides has the habit of swimming and drilling. When there are too many Ascaris in the intestines or when the child has high fever, indigestion, and improper anthelmintic treatment, the Ascaris can cause disturbance, which can cause ascaris intestinal obstruction, biliary Ascaris, Ascaris appendicitis, peritonitis, Ascaris liver abscess and other serious conditions. It is not uncommon for Ascaris lumbricoides to emerge from the nose of children;

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Eliminate flies, cockroaches, etc. and prevent children from eating food that they crawl over. These insects will bring Ascaris eggs, bacteria, etc. to the surface of food, thus spreading digestive tract diseases. Ascaris eggs are easy to hide in children's nails. Parents should often trim their children's nails and teach them not to bite their nails or suck their fingers to avoid infection.