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Suggest Treatment For Parasitic Infection In Children
Posted on
Thu, 23 Jul 2015
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Thu, 23 Jul 2015
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Thu, 13 Aug 2015
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Question : I need to know how serious this is and what to do about it: I have three children-10yrs, 8yrs, and 15 months. They are all showing signs of a parasite infection. My 8 year old has the most severe symptoms and is how i caught on to it in the first place. He started having foul smelling bms that were mushy, orange, and overflowing the diaper. He has polymicrogyria, pachygyria, XXXXXXX gestaut syndrome, and disautonomia. Then the next day he went back to the constipated type bms- hard, black, and now with strange objects in it. He also woke up with skin lesions one that developed a straight line through it as if it were the cutaneous viceral migrans. I took him in for stool samples over a week ago and still no word back. He has started throwing up the things in the pictures. We did do a parasite cleanse and he had one bn with possible worms in it that did not look anything like these. What are they and do we need to go to the er?
Brief Answer:
Needs to see a specialist for proper evaluation.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for posting your query.
The symptoms that you have described are likely to be related to a parasitic infestation. Since all the three children are affected it is more important to get an early treatment. A detailed stool examination is needed to find out the exact cause. It is best to attend an ER for proper investigations. The parasite like things that you detected can be due to mucus along with stool.
I hope this answers your query.
In case you have additional questions or doubts, you can forward them to me, and I shall be glad to help you out.
Wishing you good health.
Regards.
Dr. Praveen Tayal.
For future query, you can directly approach me through my profile URL http://bit.ly/Dr-Praveen-Tayal
Needs to see a specialist for proper evaluation.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for posting your query.
The symptoms that you have described are likely to be related to a parasitic infestation. Since all the three children are affected it is more important to get an early treatment. A detailed stool examination is needed to find out the exact cause. It is best to attend an ER for proper investigations. The parasite like things that you detected can be due to mucus along with stool.
I hope this answers your query.
In case you have additional questions or doubts, you can forward them to me, and I shall be glad to help you out.
Wishing you good health.
Regards.
Dr. Praveen Tayal.
For future query, you can directly approach me through my profile URL http://bit.ly/Dr-Praveen-Tayal
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