Toxocarosis - treatment

This disease is quite common. It is caused by parasites and is more common in stray cats and dogs. Toxocarosis treatment of which is presented in this article can affect people who contact with street animals or even when eating food that has not undergone sufficient heat treatment.

Treatment of toxocarosis in humans

If you do not start the fight against the disease in time, it can lead to various inflammatory processes, tissue damage, necroses, hemorrhages, and the formation of granulomas in vital organs. Also, the consequence of an ailment may be a lesion of the optic nerve, which results in blindness.

Treatment of toxocarias in adults is carried out by taking medications. Many believe that once parasites die in the body, then mono use home methods. However, helminths have time to harm the body, because self-medication can only be done by combining with a doctor-appointed therapy.

Drugs used to treat toxocariasis

Fighting the disease involves taking certain drugs prescribed by the doctor based on symptoms and laboratory tests. They are effective against moving parasites, but they do not affect the larvae located in the tissues of the patient.

Most often, with therapy against toxocarias, the regimen should be repeated more than once. Its effectiveness is assessed by the patient's well-being and the results of blood tests.

The most popular drugs were:

  1. Vermox . Its important advantage is the rare occurrence of side effects. Treatment of toxocarosis by Vermox lasts for two weeks at 300 mg per day. Dosage from body weight does not depend.
  2. Nemozol (Alluendazole). Treatment of toxocarosis Nemosol is carried out according to this scheme. The patient is prescribed 10 mg per kilogram of body weight per day. Duration of treatment is from 10 to 20 days. When taking medication in rare cases, there is nausea and headache, which, when canceled, immediately disappear.

Often, toxocarosis is accompanied by hair loss. This can be caused by both the disease itself and the intake of anthelmintic drugs. In this case, the patient is assigned vitamin complexes containing zinc, iron, calcium. Among these funds are allocated Panto-vigar, which is drunk for three months on a pill and Perfectil, the duration of which is 30 days.

Treatment of toxocarias with folk remedies

The main therapy can be combined with folk recipes.

The root of elecampane :

  1. Raw finely chopped and poured a glass of hot boiled water.
  2. They let them brew for twelve hours.
  3. Filtering, take three spoons with breaks of 3.5 hours.
  4. The course of treatment lasts a week, after a seven-day break, repeat again.

Effective treatment of toxocarias with sour cabbage:

  1. Spoon the berries in a glass with boiling water, which is then covered with a towel.
  2. After a lapse of two hours, the composition is taken two spoons four times a day.
  3. Drink courses for seven days in the same way as in the case described above.

Breaks must be present, because with prolonged use of the decoction negatively affects the condition of the kidneys.

The bark, branches and roots of the ash are applied in this way:

  1. A spoon of finely chopped raw material is poured with boiling water (a glass) and placed on a plate. Bring to a boil, make the fire less and boil for another ten minutes. After that, the container with medicine is wrapped in a towel.
  2. An hour later the composition will be ready.
  3. Drink in a heated form, twice a day before meals and before bedtime.