How to tell if an adult has worms in his stomach

It is said that diseases come from the mouth, and many people believe that only children who don’t like to be clean will have roundworms. In fact, modern pollution is becoming more and more serious. Many times, even if you have been very careful, you will still get roundworms in your stomach. Adults generally do not take roundworms in their stomachs seriously, but if they do, it will inevitably affect the absorption of nutrients. So how do you tell if there are worms in an adult’s stomach? If so, what should adults do?

How to tell if an adult has stomach worms

Clinical symptoms and signs vary depending on the type and site of infecting parasites and the immune status of the human host.

1. Patients infected with whipworms mainly experience lower abdominal cramps, diarrhea, and bloody stools;

2. Patients with pinworm infection may experience significant itching of the skin of the anus and perineum;

3. Ascaris patients mainly show symptoms such as loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, and teeth grinding;

4. In the early stage of hookworm infection, the infected area may feel itchy and burning, resulting in small bleeding spots, papules and small maculopapular rashes, which may disappear after a few days. Scratching can easily lead to secondary local bacterial infection and lymphadenopathy. Patients often have symptoms such as coughing, sore throat, and hoarseness 3 to 5 days after infection, but most of them will disappear on their own after a few days.

Nowadays, the probability of adults in cities having parasites in their stomachs is very low, but if you like to eat the following foods, the chance of having parasites will greatly increase!

One golden apple snail may harbor 6,000 parasites

Golden apple snails carry many kinds of parasites, with as many as 3,000 to 6,000 in one golden apple snail. To eat apple snails, they must be cooked thoroughly at a high temperature of 100 degrees Celsius.

Don’t eat uncooked eels! Gnathostoma worms can burrow into the eyes

Under the microscope, both domestic and wild eels can be found to have gnathostomimides. When people eat fish with Gnathostomia larvae, they run around in the human body like a headless fly. If it enters the eyes it can cause blindness and if it enters the brain it can be fatal! However, as long as the water reaches boiling temperature and is cooked thoroughly, the Gnatostoma nematode will die.