What are the symptoms of taeniasis?

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A kind of intestinal parasitic diseases caused by various tapeworms parasitizing on human small intestine. Taenia solium and Taenia saginata are the most common. Most people are infected by eating pork or beef containing live cysticercus. Let's talk about the symptoms of taeniasis.

What are the symptoms of taeniasis?

The eggs discharged from the feces of patients with Taenia solium or Taenia solium are infectious to themselves and the surrounding people, which can make the intermediate host pigs or cattle infected with cysticercosis. Mice are the host of Taenia solium, so both patients and mice are the source of infection. People are infected by eating raw or unripe pork or beef containing live cysticercosis.

Most of the symptoms are mild, and the only initial symptom is the appearance of white banded progestin in feces. About half of the patients have abdominal pain in the upper abdomen or around the umbilicus, often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, appetite changes and other digestive system symptoms, occasionally nervous system symptoms such as nervousness, insomnia, molar, epileptic seizures and syncope.

Most patients can find eggs in their feces by smear method, sedimentation method and floating concentration method. Anal swab smear examination can also find eggs. The diagnosis of taeniasis can be made by the detection of eggs, but the species of taeniasis can not be identified. The number and shape of uterine branches in the pregnant section of Taenia saginata were examined by compression method. The number of Taenia solium was 7-13, which was dendriform. The number of Taenia saginata was 15-30, which was opposite branching.

matters needing attention

We should vigorously carry out health publicity and education, change unhealthy diet, do not eat raw pork or beef, change the habit of cooking raw and cooked, strictly implement meat quarantine, prohibit meat with cysticercosis from marketing, and use niclosamide for preventive treatment of pigs and cattle in endemic areas of taeniasis.