Symptoms of hookworm disease

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Hookworm disease is caused by hookworm parasitizing human small intestine. Anemia, malnutrition and gastrointestinal dysfunction are the main clinical manifestations. Severe cases can lead to developmental disorders and cardiac insufficiency. Hookworm parasitic on human body is mainly hookworm duodenum or American plate mouth nematode. Occasionally, there are hookworm of Ceylon and hookworm of dog. Although the infected larvae can invade the human body, they can not develop into adults. Symptoms of hookworm disease? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of hookworm disease

Hookworm dermatitis invades the skin, initially has a strange itching and burning sensation, and then appears small bleeding points, papules and herpes. Dermatitis often occurs between fingers or toes, dorsum of foot, ankle and so on, which can disappear in a few days. Scratch can be secondary to bacterial infection, local lymph node swelling, occasionally a transient urticaria.

Three to five days after the infection of respiratory symptoms, patients often have cough, itchy throat, hoarseness, etc; Severe cases showed severe dry cough and asthma attack, manifested as eosinophilic asthma, sputum can appear blood. X-ray examination showed increased lung markings or hilar shadow hyperplasia, and occasionally transient pulmonary infiltrative lesions.

The symptoms of blood circulation system were as follows: (1) anemia, progressive anemia gradually appeared 3-5 months after severe infection, manifested as dizziness, tinnitus, palpitation, shortness of breath, etc. Long term severe anemia can lead to anemic heart disease, which is characterized by heart enlargement and heart rate acceleration. Severe anemia is often accompanied by hypoproteinemia, lower extremity or systemic edema. ② The degree of anemia directly affects the circulatory system, especially the cardiac metabolic function. The patient has pale skin and mucous membrane, mild edema of lower limbs, shortness of breath, palpitation, weakness of limbs, tinnitus, dizziness, mental retardation, etc. The patients with severe infection had significant systemic edema, severe shortness of breath, palpitation and precordial pain after mild activity, rapid and weak pulse, whole heart enlargement, obvious systolic murmur and diastolic murmur. There were hepatomegaly, tenderness, pulmonary rales, ascites and so on in patients with cardiac insufficiency.

matters needing attention

In terms of prevention, patients should be treated actively to reduce the source of infection. Do a good job in the management of feces, build harmless toilets or dung pits, seal and cover them, kill the eggs and prevent pollution. Pay attention to local skin protection. Wear shoes, gloves, or apply 1% iodine tincture or 25% alum water on the skin of hands and feet. We should try our best to use mechanical labor instead of manual operation to reduce the chance of infection. In terms of conditioning, we should pay special attention to the nutrition and easy digestion of our diet. We can eat more tofu, lean meat, pig liver, pig blood, fish and fresh vegetables, and eat less spicy and greasy things.