Watch out for dog-borne diseases

Recently, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy conducted testing of 292 samples of dog feces, resulting in 196 samples of parasites causing intestinal diseases, 152 samples with hookworm ancylostoma camum (which can infect and cause disease in humans). 40 samples with ascaris lumbricoides ascaris eggs; 11 samples with worm eggs toxoeara canis.

Children are the most susceptible to dog worms larvae (Photo: digital-slr-guide) When dogs are infected with worms, millions of worm eggs can be released after each excretion. Tests detected in 1 gram of dog feces excreted containing 15,000 worm eggs. The eggs of dog worms discharging into soil with embryos and rain will hatch into larvae.

Children are easy to be infected with this larva through the mouth and anus. When the larvae enter the body to the small intestine, the blood locates the liver, lungs, brain, and eyes. Although the larvae do not develop into adult worms, they become cysts or calcifications that damage the tissue there.

At the eyes, they cause blindness. In the brain, nerves they pinched cause madness. In the liver, spleen, larvae produce many cysts, which cause these organs to weaken or cause the death of an infected person. Dog worm larvae often cause allergies, asthma (asthma), difficulty breathing, hives, rash throughout the body, fungal hair, lung fungus.

One of the most dangerous dangerous parasites in the small intestine of the dog is the tapeworm. Tapeworms have three main types. Echinococcus echinococcus granulosus, a small tapeworm, the adult is 3-6mm long, the head has 4 sucking discs and a double hooked line, the body consists of three burning, the last one has several hundred eggs. The eggs of this flukes according to dog excrement can live from several weeks to several months in soil, grass and vegetables.

When people eat raw vegetables or caress dogs, tapeworm eggs on their hands, into the body residing in the lungs, liver, spleen, brain. Here the large eggs gradually become larvae, which are humped. The growth of the tumor is sufficient in diameter from 1-7 cm, containing more than 2 million heads. Liver parasitic parasites can suppress bile ducts causing jaundice. When the tumor in the left heart is broken, the flukes migrate to the spleen, kidney, and liver. Right heart chamber, flukes move to the lungs.

Kidney tumors cause back pain, hematuria . The bump in the spleen causes pain in the paint and the lipstick is rough. Tumors in the vertebrae can damage the spinal cord. Tumors in the bones make bones more porous and brittle. When the tumor is broken often makes people itchy, hives, body temperature increases erratically, digestive disorders, difficulty breathing, cyanosis, fainting, coma. If fluid in the tumor and blood can cause anaphylaxis.

Spirometramansoni or spirometra erinacei parasites in the small intestine of dogs . Eggs follow faeces outside, in lakes, ponds, culverts, and ditches. Eggs hatch embryos with feathers, swim in the water and be swallowed. Red mausoleum is eaten by tadpoles, children Rotation of leptospira (Photo: nii.ac) in the first stage will become larvae stage II in frogs and clones. Species of eels and snakes; rats, chickens eat red lice or eat frogs, clones carry this larva. People infected with this flukes are often eaten by frogs, have not cooked properly, drinking water with red mites or parasite caused by rubbing frogs and clones crushed on their eyes to cure red eyes. After entering the small intestine, flukes penetrate the intestinal wall and move to the skin, causing an inflammatory skin reaction.

The dipylidium canium species when mature is 15-70 cm long, about 60 to 175 burning flukes, the head has 4 suction parts, the high part has 3-7 hooks. Each egg flukes have 15-25 eggs. Mixed egg, white, oval. Burn flukes carrying eggs in the feces and release eggs. This egg can attach to the fur or around the anus. When a person caresses a dog, the egg sticks to the hand and enters the human body. In the human body, eggs develop into cyst larvae with tails. Entering the small intestine for about 20 days, follicles become adult flukes that cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, itchy skin, and allergies.

In the urine, dogs are also infected with leptospira. This bacterium binds to vegetables, food and spreads to humans. The infection of leptospira infects the body, causing jaundice with muscle pain, red conjunctivitis, meningitis (headache).

Dogs are also very sensitive to TB germs and are easily contagious.

Although medicine now has drugs to treat each type of fluke, but the detection and treatment of diseases transmitted from dogs at medical facilities, especially at the grassroots level, still face many difficulties. Most do not identify the cause, so misdiagnosis to other diseases and treatment is not very effective. If the parasite larvae are located and calcified in tissues, it is very difficult to treat the disease or it must be lifelong.

In order to prevent dog-borne diseases, the dog family needs to take the dog twice a year to take the antidote. Do not allow dogs to come near the slaughterhouse. Do not feed dogs and live organs of animals. Regularly clean, bath and kill fleas for dogs. Especially remember to wash your hands right after stroking the dog.