Help, my children have worms!
Despite parents' best efforts, children often have worms (pinworms or Enterobius vermicularis, taenia or roundworms) that sometimes contaminate the very parents who treat them. But what if it's the parents who contaminate the children? ....
Moms often contact me to treat their children's chronic diarrhoea. Sometimes because they've seen pinworms (small white maggots in children's stools) or because the child is "scratching his bottom".
It's sad to have to read in the international scientific press (pub med for example) some published scientists who exclaim, with frightening certainty, the complete and total eradication of worms in Western countries. When I think that I spend 90% of my consultations deworming my patients...!
What do you mean, Andrea?
Well, today's food travels all over the planet before reaching our plates. It passes through unwashed hands. So the presence of fecal matter in what we eat is more present than ever.
Then, in the old days, the country doctor who knew how to do everything and who didn't work as a prescriber for the pharmaceutical industry giving spasfon, paracetamol or a recipe from the shrink for all today's ailments, would recommend enemas or antiparasitics. Imagine that he saved his patients from ending up in the emergency room by giving them a dewormer! Yes, people live in the countryside and the time it takes to get to the nearest hospital could cost them their lives? We had to save them. Boy, did we forget all about spasfon! And then there's talk of evolution. I just can't believe it.
My mother, who is now 70 years old, used to be visited as a child by her GP, who used to come to people's homes at all hours, unlike today's practitioners who close at 5pm and won't accept children in an emergency. For every ailment, he'd give her a dewormer. As luck would have it, my mother's ailments disappeared.
If you have cats or dogs, you should deworm them at least twice a year, bearing in mind that the vet advises every 3 months. When do you do it? Why should the animals be affected but not you?
I've been in this profession for almost 20 years. 85% of my career is spent treating the intestinal microbiota. So...
What I wouldn't give to be trained by a country doctor. Most are either retired or underground today. What a waste of wisdom to sell out to the pharmaceutical industry! These people were doctors, surgeons, osteopaths....what wealth. With people like them, there would have been no "health crisis".
WHAT ARE THE SIGNS OF PARASITES IN CHILDREN?
-Allergic rhinitis
-Runny nose
-Itchy anus
-Growth problems
-Chronic diarrhea
-Alternating constipation and diarrhea
-Chronic constipation
-Food intolerances
-Asthma
-Respiratory disorders/ORL
-Child eating his nails
-Child eats mucus from nose
-White spots on children's nails
-Hypochlorhydria
-...
WHAT ARE THE SIGNS OF PARASITES IN ADULTS?
We can take the child's symptoms and go on to cite any existing adult disease. WOW!
WHAT HYGIENO-DIETETIC RULES TO APPLY?
-Wash all fruits and vegetables with boiling water, white vinegar, bicarbonate or all 3.
-Take cider vinegar before at least one meal. The vinegar will prevent hypochlorhydria, so the stomach acid will prevent the worms from ending up in the intestines, as they will be treated in the stomach.
-Change sheets every 10-15 days, washing with white vinegar at 90 degrees.
-Do not put the spoon or fork back when tasting the meals you prepare. This is essential, as an infected adult who tastes while preparing a meal risks contaminating the rest of the family. I recommend boiling a kettle and washing the spoon or fork each time. The boiling water will kill a lot of worms and avoid filling up your dishwasher, so you don't have to store all your kitchen utensils. From personal experience, this is one of the most important things you can do, not only to avoid cross-contamination, but also to prevent the rest of your family from picking up other infections such as periodontitis.
