Human infection with eye worm symptoms?

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If the symptoms of the eyelid worm are normal, there is no big performance. What is more serious may lead to tears or conjunctival flushing. If you open the conjunctiva, you may also see white linear worms. Many people may not be familiar with the eyelid worm. The eyelid worm is actually a parasite inside the eyes. Most of them are animal parasites. Human infection with eye worm symptoms? Let's talk about it.

Human infection with eye worm symptoms?

In general, the symptoms of the eyelid worm are not particularly obvious, which may cause tears and may cause conjunctival flushing and swelling. If you open the conjunctiva, you may also see white linear worms. The human eye worm usually occurs in the numerous breeding seasons of flies.

There was a close relationship between the severity of symptoms and the number of infected insects, the parasitic location and the duration of infection. Anisakis larvae can parasitize in the throat, stomach and intestinal mucosa, but the stomach is the most common, about twice as much as the intestine. Anisakiasis of stomach was most reported in Japan (97.3%). The incubation period is generally 2-20 hours. According to the Japanese report, the shortest time from eating raw fish fillets to the onset of the disease is 30 minutes and the longest is 168 hours. 64% of the patients developed within 3-8 hours and 88% within 12 hours. The incubation period of anisakiasis is long, and it usually occurs 1-5 days after eating fish fillets.

The ratio of male to female was about 1.8 ∶ 1. Most of the patients aged 10-39 years old had lesions in duodenum, jejunum, ileum, cecum, appendix and rectum. Often in 1 to 5 days after eating raw fish, suddenly severe abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, low fever, followed by diarrhea, tarry mucus stool, tenderness in the right lower abdomen and umbilical area, sometimes accompanied by urticaria, etc. The patients were often operated on because of intestinal perforation, peritonitis or local intestinal necrosis. The diagnosis was made when the larvae were found in the diseased tissues.

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These related knowledge will greatly help us to resist the occurrence of this disease, and lay a solid scientific foundation for us to develop effective prevention and treatment measures. Of course, in our daily life, we should also pay attention to food safety and hygiene, and pay attention to eating more cooked food and less raw food.