What are the symptoms of infantile thrush?

Ratworms are in people's intestines and can stimulate one end of the intestines, leading to gastrointestinal dysfunction. Many children often suffer from diarrhea, constipation, and even watery stools. This situation can be considered as ratworms in the intestines. When infants have ratworms, they will cry at night, lose weight, grind their teeth, and lose their appetite.

Clinical manifestations

At different developmental stages in the intestine, the worms can stimulate the intestinal wall and nerve endings, causing gastrointestinal nerve dysfunction. Adult worms attach to the intestinal mucosa and cause local inflammation. Female worms penetrate deep into the intestinal mucosa and parasitize there, causing ulcers, bleeding, and submucosal abscesses. In rare cases, pinworms can also invade the intestinal wall and extraintestinal tissues, causing granulomas centered on the worm body (or eggs).

Adult worms parasitizing the intestines can cause damage to the intestinal mucosa. Mild infection may have no obvious symptoms, while severe infection can cause malnutrition and metabolic disorders. The worms often move around the anus, especially at night; female worms occasionally penetrate deep into the intestinal wall to parasitize, causing bleeding, ulcers, and even small abscesses.

The worms often move around the anus, and patients often show symptoms such as irritability, insomnia, loss of appetite, nighttime teeth grinding, and weight loss. Babies often cry repeatedly at night and cannot sleep well.

Treatment

Antiparasitic drugs can be used for treatment. Most drugs in this category are toxic and enter the spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridians. They have poisonous and paralyzing effects on parasites in the human body, especially those in the intestines, prompting them to be excreted from the body. Therefore, anthelmintics are mainly used to treat intestinal parasitic diseases, such as ascariasis, entomoworm disease, red worm disease, hookworm disease, and ginger worm disease. Patients with this type of parasite often experience abdominal pain around the navel, loss of appetite, or excessive appetite and a liking to eat foreign objects. Over time, they will develop symptoms such as weight loss, sallow complexion, a large abdomen with exposed blue veins, and edema. Some patients have mild symptoms without obvious signs and are only discovered during stool examination. In all of these cases, anthelmintics should be taken to achieve a complete cure. Certain anthelmintic drugs can also kill parasites in other parts of the body, such as schistosomiasis and vaginal trichomoniasis. It should be taken under the guidance of a doctor. And apply white vinegar to the anus several times a day to kill the ticks that come out to lay eggs. Try not to scratch with your hands. Wash your underwear with soap and then expose it to the sun for sterilization. It is best to boil it in water for sterilization to prevent repeated infection. Do this for about a week and it will be fine.