Symptoms of giardiasis.
Giardiasis causes causative agents of the disease - Giardia (the simplest class of flagellates). The disease manifests itself in the disorder of the small intestine. Giardia can be found at rest (cysts) or in the vegetative stage (trophozoids - they can multiply). Trophozoids live in the small intestine, they attach themselves to the cells of the epithelium of the intestinal mucosa, they receive nutrition from it, without destroying its walls.
Giardiasis can be infected only from a sick person, Giardia of animals are not dangerous to humans. Trophozoids outside the intestine die immediately, in the feces usually there are only cysts, which can persist there for up to 3 months. Lamblias are transmitted from the patient or carrier to a healthy person through feces contaminated hands, water, food, objects, and also carried by insects.
Lamblias live in the human body for up to 40 days, the continuation of the disease is possible only with repeated infection. Giardiasis usually occurs in people with weak immunity, with its normal state, there are usually no signs of disease. Lambrosis is more common in children, because they are not yet immune to immunity.
Giardiasis is manifested by spasmodic pains and unpleasant sensations in the abdomen, nausea, flatulence (dysbiosis appears, the normal composition of the intestinal microflora is disrupted), a periodically arising liquid stool. Characteristic of Giardiasis is also the fact that it often hides various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, often of a bacterial nature. If a lamblia patient is found in the stool, a thorough examination should be carried out for the detection of these diseases. Lamblias are found in the feces (in the liquid - trophozoids, in the decorated - cysts) and duodenal contents (trophozoids).
Giardiasis is treated in a complex way, drug therapy is aimed at destroying lamblia and restoring normal intestinal microflora, its functions. If other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract were found, they are also treated.
Nutrition for lambliasis.
Not the last place with giardiasis takes the right therapeutic diet, since with its help you can purify the body of lamblia or at least reduce their number in the intestine.
For lamblia the main nutrient medium are digestible carbohydrates. Consequently, in the diet of patients with giardiasis should be absent muffin, sweets, cakes, cakes, sweet fizzy drinks. Also, do not eat sausages, semolina, milk, spicy, smoked, pickled and fatty foods - it can cause irritation of the intestines and aggravate the course of the disease.
Do not like lamblia acidic environment, so it is recommended to use more sour-milk products and acidify the food. As acidulants, you can use acidic fruits and berries, prepare from them, fruit drinks and compotes. The best effect will be achieved if you take acidifiers half an hour before meals. You can consume more sour berries and fruits throughout the day. Vegetables can be eaten raw (cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, carrots, all kinds of cabbage), stew or boil. Do not eat vegetables that irritate the intestines - raw onions, garlic, radish, radish.
Fruit is available, but a special preference is to give sour (kiwi, mandarins, oranges, sour varieties of plums and apples). Berries are especially useful, they contain a large number of pectins - natural sorbents, on which various microorganisms (including lamblia) and toxins are deposited, and then are excreted from the body. Cranberries, cranberries, blueberries, strawberries, currants are useful. Do not eat sweet grapes and bananas.
Buckwheat and corn porridge cooked on the water will do. Unsweetened cottage cheese and yogurt, fish and meat of low-fat varieties are allowed.
All dishes should be steamed, boiled or stewed. Food should be taken 4-5 times a day, not allowing the reception of fried foods. The diet should last 3-4 months. At the same time it is necessary to carefully observe personal hygiene in order to prevent re-infection, then the lambliasis will pass by itself without drug treatment.
Almost always giardiasis is accompanied by dysbiosis, and such a correct diet is able to restore the normal intestinal microflora. To get rid of a lambliasis it is quite possible and without reception of medicines.