Treatment of schistosomiasis

Treatment of schistosomiasis

Severe acute illness requires hospitalization and giving the patient a powerful treatment such as fluids, cortisone and antihistamines. After the end of the acute case, the patient is given the praziquantel. The commercial name is the bilteridide or the dystocid, which reduces and secrete the eggs by killing the worm. Oral administration is given 20 mg / Kg twice a day for manicysteusomiasis, type of intercolatum, type of hematobium, 20 mg / kg 3 times daily for both gabonikum and mikongi, and side effects of vomiting, dizziness and colic

As for the complications of the disease such as fibrosis is not treated, and the most important ways to prevent the disease water sterilization and avoid exposure to stagnant water and marshes and non-contact skin, and the stagnation of stagnant water and deal with the official authorities to get rid of snails if any, and disposal of human waste away from water sources and treatment As well as the need for medical campaigns, especially in areas where the disease is endemic, and to provide ivory for people infected and non-infected in those areas, aged six years or more and repeatedly.

Schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis

Method of spread of schistosomiasis

Symptoms of schistosomiasis

Complications of schistosomiasis

Summary of schistosomiasis