Treatment of giardiasis in children

Giardiasis is a disease that affects both children and adults. This is a parasitic disease that is caused by lamblia (protozoa). You can get infected from a sick person, with no hygiene. Once in the body, Giardia lives in the small intestine. An illness can cause bad health, as well as a number of complications. Children are more susceptible to infection than adults, and the disease itself is more difficult for them.

Diagnosis of Giardiasis

It is not even an experienced physician who can accurately determine the presence of the disease by external symptoms. But if there are reasons to assume such an infection, then it is necessary to pass the tests.

The standard method for determining the presence of a parasite in the body is to study feces for the presence in it of cyst lamblia or living specimens. It is important to analyze the fresh portion. If the test showed a negative result, it does not mean that there is no infection. It is recommended to take the test three times with an interval of several days.

How to treat giardiasis in children?

You can not try to get rid of the disease on your own. Recommend a scheme of treatment, as well as monitor its process should a specialist. In order for the therapy to be effective, you must carefully consider the composition of the patient's diet. After all, some products have a beneficial effect on the life of lamblia. At the same time, other food interferes with their existence. It is necessary to adhere to a certain diet during the fight against the disease:

• it is necessary to limit the use of dairy products;
• should refuse confectionery, sweets, bread;
• food should be rich in fiber (buckwheat, brown rice, vegetables);
• it is important to drink a lot of liquid, preferably cranberry juice, kefir, broth of dogrose.

Treatment of giardiasis in children is carried out in several stages. At the first, the organism is prepared:

• improve the outflow of bile, with the possible use of cholagogue fees, as well as drugs such as Alahol, Flamin;
• prescribe sorbents, for example, Enterosgel;
• recommend the intake of vitamins, phytotherapy and physiotherapy are possible;
• It is also possible to prescribe medications that improve the digestion of food (Festal, Creon);
• use drugs to relax the muscles (No-shpa, Papaverin).

This phase can take several weeks.

Next, prescribe drugs directed directly at the destruction of lamblia. Most often, these drugs are prescribed for the treatment of giardiasis in children:

• Ornidazole is recommended for patients with atopic dermatitis;
• Furazolidon is effective when the patient's condition is complicated by cystitis, pyelonephritis;
• Metronidazole is used if the patient has some diseases of the digestive system;
• treatment of giardiasis in children Nemozolom (Albendazolom) is used in cases where, in addition to lamblia, other helminth species are found in the body.

Therapy may be accompanied by taking medications for allergies, for example, Suprastin, Zirtek.

At the next stage, it is necessary to carry out work to restore the body. It is necessary to continue to follow a diet. It is also important to take vitamins. Perhaps the doctor recommends drugs to strengthen immunity, as well as sorbents.

Treatment of giardiasis in children with folk remedies should be carried out only in consultation with the doctor. The use of herbal preparations can be prescribed for general strengthening of the body, for example, tincture of Echinacea. Also at the initial stage, it is possible to use decoctions of birch buds and bearberry to destroy cysts.

Parents should understand that the treatment of giardiasis in children will not be rapid. After getting rid of parasites, the restoration of the body's work proceeds slowly.