Schistosomiasis
It is a parasitic disease that occurs due to the worms of the Belarussian and affects many developing countries is not considered Bilharzih fatal, but this disease leads to the rapid consumption of the body of the injured, and the cause of infection is that these worms are composed of male and female and their life cycle and its reproduction within the human body begins to move the disease within the body The infected generation after generation.
Discoverer of schistosomiasis
Is the German physician (Theodore Balhars) was the method of discovery in 1851 that many Egyptians infected with this disease and drain their forces from a long time, and theodore known that the reason for the presence of a type of sucker of worms named Balharsi, and found these worms in blood and liver and the length The duduah is one centimeter.
Symptoms of schistosomiasis
Symptoms of the disease vary according to the stages of life in the body.
- When penetrating the skin: Mostly is not felt and not felt by the person but he suffers from the presence of itching in the skin.
- When egg whites are produced, they are often not felt and felt by the person, but they have heat in itchy skin.
- When ovulation occurs: When schistosomiasis produces eggs, it leads to cirrhosis in the liver tissue without the patient’s feeling, and then comes an advanced stage in which the symptoms of high blood pressure begin to deteriorate liver function and get intestinal bleeding and abdominal swelling due to fluid, and in the bladder lead to fibrosis Wall, and blockage occurs in the ureter in one kidney and may lead to renal failure.
Elimination of schistosomiasis
- Prevention of the disease: It is by avoiding the use or washing of the water of the canals and water contaminated with diphtheria, when using this water must be disinfected by chlorine to be able to use.
- Minimizing the spread of the parasite: People should be prevented from urinating or defecating in waterways and rivers.
- Health education: The level of citizens’ culture on some health guidelines should be raised through documentary films, the importance of early treatment and the problems that can be caused when polluting water with waste.
- Treatment: There is a treatment at specific doses and during a short period of the most famous drugs (Brazikwantl), a treatment in the initial stages to eliminate schistosomiasis and can be taken by pills or drink, and treatment in the advanced stages is very difficult to require a lot of operations to eliminate them .
- Eliminating schistosomiasis: This is done by raising ducks and other types of birds that feed on snails. This is achieved by achieving ecological balance, as well as spraying insecticides, especially in waterways, to eliminate worms and especially in developing areas and prevent the disease.
Famous people with schistosomiasis
Abdel Halim Hafez, who suffered from schistosomiasis since childhood when he was playing in the contaminated water of the canals and died of it.