How to remove Giardia from the human body

Adults and children run the risk of giardiasis if personal hygiene is not followed. Treatment of this parasitic disease does not require hospitalization. An infectious disease agent prescribes a course of therapy and explains how to get rid of Giardia, what to do to avoid reinfection.

General information about giardiasis

The disease occurs when the simplest flagellated fecal-oral route enters the body. Infection occurs through the use of food, water containing cysts of the pathogen, contact with an infected person.

Giardia in the body in humans live in the small intestine, attaching to its wall. They do not colonize other organs. Giardia multiply in the duodenum, separate individuals emerge as inactive cysts with feces.

The incubation period for giardiasis is from 1 to 3 weeks. Then the first non-specific symptoms of the disease appear:

• nausea, vomiting;
• appetite disturbance;
• diarrhea;
• navel soreness;
• headaches, dizziness;
• weakness, fatigue;
• irritability, sleep disturbance;
• dry and pale skin;
• signs of skin or respiratory allergies.

Diagnosis of giardiasis is based on the detection of cysts in the feces, DNA fragments, parasites in the duodenal contents, antibodies of the immunoglobulin group.

Important!

Establish a diagnosis and begin to fight with Giardia only if there are symptoms of the disease against the background of a positive analysis.

Treatment of giardiasis

An infectious disease agent prescribes a complex therapy and gives recommendations on nutrition.

The doctor will warn you that it is impossible to completely clear the Giardia only by folk remedies or using a diet and tell you which groups of drugs help to cope with the parasite.

Lamblia remedies

For treatment prescribed antimicrobial or anthelmintic agents. The choice of drug depends on body weight, age, health.

Concomitant diseases with giardiasis

When treating Giardia in adults or children, the infectious disease specialist clarifies the presence of the following diseases:

• chronic renal failure;
• liver failure, liver cirrhosis;
• damage to the blood-forming organs;
• allergic reactions to the drug;
• lesions of the central nervous system;
• episindrom and barbiturate therapy.

Important!

It is recommended to treat Giardia during pregnancy and lactation only if recommended by an infectious disease specialist if the disease itself is more dangerous for the mother and the baby than prescribing drugs. Condition monitoring should be carried out by an obstetrician-gynecologist.

Giardiasis therapy takes from 3 to 7 days and allows you to quickly get rid of the parasite.

The infectious disease doctor prescribes:

• Furazolidone: from 120 to 400 mg / day, course duration from 5 to 10 days;
• Tinidazole: up to 1.5 g / day, course of 3 days;
• Ornidazole: from 5 to 11 days, the dosage is calculated according to the weight of the patient;
• Albendazole 400 mg / day course 3 days

It is this group of tools that allows to destroy and remove Giardia from the body of an adult or a child.

When prescribing a course of primary therapy, the doctor recommends symptomatic treatment. It is not able to cure parasites, but is aimed at eliminating the adverse manifestations of giardiasis and improves the general well-being of the patient. This group includes:

1. Antihistamines. They relieve the skin symptoms of lambliasis allergy: Claritin, Suprastin, Zodak.
2. Enterosorbents: White coal, Smekta. The vital activity and the very removal of giardia is accompanied by the release of toxins that worsen the patient's well-being.
3. Antispasmodic: No-shpa, Drotaverin. They are used to treat abdominal pains with Giardia.
4. Prebiotic preparations: Bifidumbacterin, Linex. Giardia leads to the development of dysbacteriosis, during the treatment of the disease and after the end of taking antiparasitic agents it is necessary to restore the intestinal flora.
5. Complexes of vitamins and microelements - Undevit, Alphabet, Vitrum, Perfectil.Against the background of chronic giardiasis hypovitaminosis develops. Prescription drugs helps get rid of skin problems, weakness, fatigue.

Giardiasis Therapy

The duration of such treatment, the choice of drugs carried out individually, after assessing the patient's condition.

Diet for giardiasis

Nutritional recommendations are based on the observation that lamblia are afraid of in the human body. A special diet consists of vegetable, dairy foods and cereals. The medical diet at home is organized as follows:

1. The patient should eat up to 5-6 times a day in small portions.
2. Preference should be given to products that acidify the environment and gastric contents. These are kefirs, natural yogurts, citrus fruits, berries, apples.
3. It is necessary to abandon the so-called fast carbohydrates, flour products. Since they contribute to the breeding Giardia.
4. The main part of the diet for giardiasis is represented by boiled, steamed products.
5. During the diet is required to regularly consume up to 3 liters of plain water. Such drinking mode removes intoxication.

On a note!

To remove Giardia from the body, you must follow a diet of 3 to 6 months.

Folk remedies

Followers of traditional medicine believe that you can permanently get rid of Giardia, using simple non-drug means. Their mechanism of action is implemented as follows:

• detoxification of the body;
• stimulation of intestinal motility;
• choleretic effect.

Folk recipes from lamblia

Among the most effective recipes are the following:

• Infusion inflorescences of wormwood: from 20 g of raw materials and 400 ml of vodka. Crushed grass insist in a dark place for 10-14 days, then filter and drink 15 ml in the morning on an empty stomach for 4-6 weeks.
• Acceptance of vegetable oil (pumpkin, rapeseed, linseed) to improve the performance of the gallbladder and its ducts. When giardiasis often develops biliary dyskinesia, worsening the general condition of the patient. Inside take up to 3 tablespoons of the remedy in the morning, then drink half a glass of sour juice and put a heating pad on the right hypochondrium area. Such treatment of giardiasis is contraindicated with stones in the bladder.
• Making decoction of corn stigmas. 30 g of raw materials take up to 500 ml of boiling water and insist up to 1-3 hours.The tool allows not only to kill Giardia, but also to expel them from the intestinal lumen.
• To get rid at home of parasites will help decoctions of tansy or calendula. 2-3 tablespoons inflorescences take up to 600 ml of boiling water, insist and take 1 glass in the morning for 3-4 days.

Among folk remedies, acidic fruit drinks made from cranberry or currant without sugar perform the purifying function. They create an unfavorable environment for Giardia and help remove toxins from the body.

Important!

The use of folk remedies allows you to recover from Giardia in the presence of a small number of parasites in the body and to facilitate the course of the disease with severe intoxication

Diagnosis: giardiasis can be made only by an infectious diseaseist after examining a patient. Treatment of the disease at home is carried out in a complex, using drugs, a special diet, folk remedies.