Bare Feet | Outdoor Toilets | Parasites and Hookworms
Channel: BlackBearSix.TV
Date: 2018-06-01

Historically, parasitic intestinal worms were common in humans, and outdoor animals.  This video answers the following questions: What are the risks of outhouses and outdoor toilets?  What is Hookworm Disease?  How does a person get hookworms?  What does a hookworm look?  How do hookworms enter the skin and human body?  How hookworms travel in a person's body?  Are hookworms dangerous?  What is a good treatment for hookworms?  Do animals get hookworms?  What are the symptoms of hookworm disease?

Hookworm symptoms: Itchiness, localized rash, abdominal pain, diarrhea.  

Complications: anemia, protein deficiency.  

Parasite risk factors: walking barefoot in warm climates with poor sanitation. 

Diagnostic method: Stool sample examination with a microscope. 

Prevention: not walking barefoot, stopping outdoor defecation.

Medications: albendazole, mebendazole, iron supplements.

Hookworm infection is caused by a type of intestinal parasite in the roundworm group.

Hookworm eggs occur in the stool of infected people. Rarely fatal.

Those living in poverty are most vulnerable.

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