A Guide to Human Intestinal Parasites Worms

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A Guide to Human Intestinal Parasites Worms

By Observer Staff

Jan 28, 2006

-Vol. IX Issue 03

 

 

Human intestinal parasite worms' infect through air, food, or water

and cause constipation, stomach bloating, and other diseases and

health problems. Symptoms include anemia, asthma, diarrhea, digestive

disorders, fatigue, low immune system, nervousness or a skin rash.

However, most suffers wiill not face this reality - or even want to

think about the subject of worms - and will continue in their suffering.

 

There can be over 100 different types of parasitical worms living in

human bodies. Some are microscopic in size, while others can be seen

quite easily. These common organisms can be found everywhere in our

environment, in the air we breath, in the water we drink, or in the

food we eat. A parasite is an organism that lives on or in other

organisms from which it obtains nutrients to live, and causes harm in

the process. Its name comes from the Greek word `para' that means

`beside', and `sitos', which means `food'. Most parasites require a

host to complete their life cycle. Animals can also serve as a host.

The parasite can vary in size from the smallest one-thousandth of a

micron to whale tapeworms a hundred feet long.

 

Worms can invade your bodies through food and water intake, through a

transmitting agent such as a mosquito, sexual conduct or through the

nose and skin. Once established, they will eat the same foods you eat

- or they will eat you. People with intestinal parasite infections are

usually under-nourished and weak, infected with viral, fungal, or

bacteria, and have various types of chemical and metal poisoning.

Human intestinal parasites can be present in any disease, in any

person, at any age. They are responsible for many health problems

because they secrete toxins and steal the vital nutrients from our

bodies. They can irritate or exaggerate other health problems you may

be experiencing. Everyone is at risk and under their mercy during

parasitic infections.

 

We create the perfect living environment for parasites when the bowel

becomes ineffective in the elimination of our waste products. The

build-up of fecal material on the walls of the colon is attributed to

constipation and the amounts of junk food, chemicals, bad fats and

sweets we consume. We poison ourselves from our own toxic waste and

the waste from these creatures, called auto-intoxication, when this

ideal habitat for them is created. Tests for parasites are only

available for about five percent of the known varieties, with a

twenty-percent accuracy. Cancer cases are afflicted with worms that

often lump together and look like tumors. Female worms can release

3,000 to 200,000 eggs per day depending on their type.

 

This is a topic that most people do not want to discuss, let alone

think about, but the reality must be faced. These topics are very

important for a total detox and your well-being. Most doctors are not

trained to recognize the symptoms of parasitic infections. The only

way to avoid the problems associated with parasite infections is by

educating yourself. There are 3200 varieties of parasites in the four

major categories, Protozoa, Trematoda, Cestoda and Nematoda. Nematodes

include the common roundworm

(Ascaris lumbricoides), hookworm, whipworm, pinworm, heart worm,

Strongyloides, Stercoralis, Ancylostoma, caninum, toxocara worm and

trichinosis. Their size can vary from 0.2 to 35 centimeters. Roundworm

look similar to an earthworm and can produce 200,000 eggs a day.

 

Approximately 1,008 million people are infected, making it the most

common worldwide. The most frequent symptom from roundworm is upper

abdominal discomfort. Other symptoms are asthma, eye pain, insomnia,

and rashes due to the secretions or waste products from the worms. In

large numbers they can cause blockages in the intestinal tract,

hemorrhages when penetrating the intestinal wall, appendicitis,

peritonitis, abscesses in the liver, hemorrhagic pancreatitis, loss of

appetite, and an insufficient absorption of digested foods. Adults grow to

15 inches long. Hookworm larvae penetrate the skin. When hookworm

reach adulthood, they can sap the victim's strength, vitality and

overall well-being. Young worms use their teeth to burrow through the

intestinal wall and feed on your blood. Symptoms from hookworm, about

0.5inch long, are iron deficiency, abdominal pain, loss of appetite,

craving to eat soil, protein deficiency, dry skin and hair, skin

irritations, edema, distended abdomen, stunted growth, delayed

puberty, mental dullness, cardiac failure and death.

 

Pinworm can infect one in five children. Symptoms are itching and

irritation of the anus or vagina, digestive disorders, insomnia,

irritability or nervousness. Female worms crawl out of the anus and

lay about 15,000 eggs per day. Once airborne, the eggs can survive

about two days anywhere in your living environment. Worldwide, about

500 million are infected with pinworm. The worm is white and can grow

to about a half inch in length. Infections from whipworm are estimated

at several hundred million worldwide. Symptoms of whipworms are bloody

stools, pain in the lower abdomen, weight loss, rectal prolapse,

nausea and anemia. Hemorrhages can occur when worms penetrate the

intestinal wall and bacterial infections usually follow.

 

The are about one to two inches in length. Protozoa, the single cell

parasites include amoebae, protozoa infections, neospora,

Toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidium, giardia, Sarcocystis and Trichomonas

vaginalis. Amoebae are an irregular shaped microorganism that infects

the end of the smaller intestine and colon. Amebiasis is the most

common infection and caused by the species Entamoeba histolytica.

Amoebae also release an enzyme that causes ulcers or abscesses where

they can enter the bloodstream. They can eventually reach other organs

like the brain or liver. They are very small, just 25 micro meters in

diameter.

 

Cryptosporidium is associated with water-borne outbreaks. The victim

might experience diarrhea and abdominal pain lasting for about ten

days. Giardia is the most prevalent intestinal parasite in humans and

found in drinking water. Giardia resides in the smaller intestine and

at times in the gall bladder. Millions of these giardia organisms will

coat the intestinal walls, prevents the absorption of nutrients and

later causing illness. Symptoms are mild to moderate abdominal cramps,

intestinal gas, light colored stools, bad absorption, weakness,

chills, stomach bloating and diarrhea. Trichomonas vaginalis is a

pathogen that resides in the vagina in females and the urethra,

epididymis, and swelling in the prostate gland in males.

 

In women there is a yellowish discharge accompanied by itching and

burning. Malaria, the most prevalent and debilitating disease among

the protozoa type is caused by Plasmodium. About two million people

die annually from Malaria. Cestodes (Tapeworm); bladder worms, pork

tapeworm, broad fish, dog tapeworm, dwarf and rat tapeworm. Broad fish

tapeworm may grow to 35 feet long and live ten years inside a persons

intestines. Some tapeworm can lay as many as a million eggs per day.

Their bodies are in separate segments with hooks and suction cups on

their skull. Trematodes, or flukes, include flatworms, bladder, blood,

liver, lung, kidney and intestinal fluke. Human infections of flukes,

called schistosomes, are in excess of 250 million worldwide. They can

cause severe disease of the gastrointestinal tract, bladder, liver and

destroy blood cells.

 

Their size varies from 1 to 2.5 centimeters in length. Spirochete are

very tiny organisms that are spiral-shaped, and multiply in the blood

and lymphatic system and include spirochete – the largest – to

Saprospira, Cristispira to the smallest, treponema. The host or

carrier are usually alice, ticks, fleas, mites, and flying insects,

which is then transmitted to humans. Spirochete are responsible for

relapsing fever, infectious jaundice, Lyme disease, sores, ulcers,

Vincent angina and Wyles disease.

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