How to tell if a child has stomach worms

In real life, many children do not pay attention to personal hygiene habits and fail to wash their hands before meals and after defecation. Therefore, they are easily contaminated with bacteria, which may lead to the growth of roundworms over time, affecting their physical health. Of course, whether a child has roundworms in his stomach cannot be told from the surface. So how do you tell if a child has worms in his stomach? What are the symptoms if there are worms in the baby's stomach? Let us take a brief look at it below.

Patients with intestinal parasites may experience the following abnormal symptoms :

1. The child often complains of stomach pain, especially around the navel, and likes to massage the area. When the pain is gone, the child will continue to play as usual.

2. Children are easily awakened, grind their teeth and drool during sleep at night;

3. There are often pale white, nearly circular or oval patches on the face and neck of children, with small grayish white scales on them, which are commonly known as "worm spots";

4. The child's skin often has "wind bumps" (urticaria) repeatedly without obvious reasons;

5. The child has a poor appetite. Some children have partial or unusual eating habits. The child likes to eat strange things such as paper and cloth.

6. Worms compete with children for nutrition in the intestines, which can affect their growth and development, leading to malnutrition and anemia;

7. When the larvae migrate, symptoms such as coughing, chest pain, asthma, difficulty breathing, fever, itchy skin, and increased eosinophilia in the blood may occur;

8. Adult worms in the intestines can cause complications such as parasitic intestinal obstruction, appendicitis, and peritonitis. These symptoms can help you determine whether your baby has stomach worms. If these symptoms are not present, then it can be determined that your baby does not have stomach worms.

In life, many parents judge whether their children have abdominal parasites based solely on whether the baby has "worm spots" on the face, whether the baby grinds his teeth at night, or whether he has abdominal pain and other symptoms. This practice is not scientific. "Worm spots" are a skin disease caused by a lack of B vitamins, medically known as simple pityriasis. Although the toxins secreted by roundworms can induce nocturnal bruxism, it can also be caused by mental stress, calcium deficiency, dental diseases, etc. It is unreliable because of its lack of specificity. As for stomach pain, there are more reasons, such as intestinal cramps, cold abdomen, enteritis and abdominal epilepsy, etc. Parasites are only one of the factors.