Is it serious if there are white worms in the stool?

If you find white worms in your stool, it means that your previous diet may not be hygienic and you have eaten food with worm eggs. These worms themselves do not cause much harm to the body, but they will absorb nutrients in the body. If they are not cleaned in time for a long time, they may cause weight loss and often cause severe abdominal pain. Therefore, if you find white worms in your stool, you should go to the pharmacy as soon as possible to buy some deworming medicine. This medicine is very common.

Parasites in the intestines are generally pinworms, which have a limited lifespan of only a few months. The principle of infection with this parasite is to ingest the eggs through the diet. If there are no other obvious symptoms, you can pay attention to dietary hygiene and the symptoms will disappear naturally after a few months.

This kind of stool contains very thin, white or light yellow worms less than 1 cm long, which are alive and are called pinworms. They are more common in children, and adults occasionally get the disease as well, sometimes accompanied by anal itching. The hospital no longer tests for this type of worm so it cannot be detected. Adults should take 2 tablets of intestinal worm clearing on an empty stomach, clean the area around the anus twice a day, and wash hands after defecation, and the disease will be cured soon.

Enterobacteriaceae

It is a disease caused by young red worms that parasitize in the intestines. The main diseases seen in my country are beef and pork red worm diseases.

Clinical manifestations: Half of the patients often have upper abdominal pain, a few may have weight loss, fatigue, increased appetite, etc., and occasionally have neurological symptoms such as neurasthenia, bruxism, insomnia, etc. Mild infection with Hymenolepis shortissima is often asymptomatic, while severe infection may cause symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, loss of appetite, dizziness, and weight loss.

The diagnosis is mainly based on the presence of segments of the red worm in stool examination. Porcine cysticercosis can cause encephalopathy, epilepsy, eye disease, subcutaneous tissue and muscle diseases, and can be diagnosed by biopsy.

Cause

1. Source of infection: Humans are the final hosts of Taenia solium and Taenia bovis. Therefore, hotels are the only source of infection for Taenia solium and Taenia bovis diseases. Taenia solium and Taenia bovis eggs are excreted in feces, infecting pigs or cattle respectively and causing cysticercosis. Rats are the worm-carrying hosts of Hymenolepis shortissima. Therefore, rats and humans are the sources of infection of Hymenolepis shortissima disease.

2. Transmission route: Taeniasis in swine and Taeniasis in cattle is caused by eating raw or undercooked pork or beef containing cysticercus. This is related to eating habits, and the cooked food may also be contaminated by tasting raw meat fillings or using raw meat and cooked food on the same chopping board and cooking utensils. Children are more likely to be infected with Hymenolepis shortissima.

3. The average susceptibility is high and everyone can be infected regardless of gender or age. Taeniasis in swine and cattle is more common in young and middle-aged people, with more cases in males than in females. Short membrane shell sleeve extraction is mostly done by children.

4. Epidemic situation: Taeniasis is mainly prevalent in ethnic minority areas such as Zhuizhou, Tibet, Sichuan, Guangxi, Xinjiang, Ningxia, etc., and is often endemic. Swine Taeniasis is common in Northeast China, North China, Henan, Yunnan, Inner Mongolia, Shanghai and other places, and most of them are sporadic. The short-shelled crimson worm is mainly found in North China and Northeast China.