What are the symptoms of roundworms in children?

Many children have this situation, that is, there are roundworms in their stomach, but parents don’t know what the symptoms of roundworms in children are? If a child has roundworms, parents must pay attention to the child's every move, because roundworms have a relatively large impact on children and can easily cause other symptoms. Therefore, parents must pay attention to this. If they find that their children have such a condition, they must understand the relevant treatment options. Therefore, parents need to understand what the symptoms of roundworms are in children.

In most cases, children do not have any symptoms after contracting ascariasis, but sometimes they may experience abdominal pain around the navel and loss of appetite. Although the abdominal pain is not severe, it recurs repeatedly, and children often cry because they cannot express it;

Older children often like to press their abdomen when they have abdominal pain, and play as usual after the pain stops. Young children often suffer from pica and like to eat coal slag, lime, earth, etc. Some can affect children's gastrointestinal function, causing nausea, vomiting, mild diarrhea or constipation, undigested food in the stool, and the excretion of roundworms.

If the number of roundworms in the body increases, it will not only consume nutrients in the body, but also hinder the child's normal digestion and absorption functions, causing malnutrition and anemia, and even affecting the child's growth and intellectual development. At the same time, the toxins produced by roundworms can also cause children to become listless or restless, have headaches, irritability, poor sleep, night terrors, and bruxism.

From this we can see that the symptoms of roundworms are different for every child, which is also related to the child’s age. Young children may not show obvious symptoms and do not know how to express them, but older children may have their own ways of expressing themselves and parents can understand whether their children have roundworms based on their performance. If a child has roundworms, they must be treated promptly.