Helminthiases are increasingly spreading among people of different ages, and even if you follow the hygiene rules to the smallest detail, you cannot be 100% protected from them. Parasitic species that enter the body cause serious work disorders, spread through the digestive tract and affect the liver, heart muscle and lungs. Helminths damage tissues, provoke bleeding, inflammation, reduce immunity and make a person vulnerable to other diseases.
Helminthiases are increasingly spreading among people of different ages, and even if you follow the hygiene rules to the smallest detail, you cannot be 100% protected from them. Parasitic species that enter the body cause serious work disorders, spread through the digestive tract and affect the liver, heart muscle and lungs. Helminths damage tissues, provoke bleeding, inflammation, reduce immunity and make a person vulnerable to other diseases.
What is especially important with parasites is the loss of substances that are vital to the body. Worms deprive a person of vitamins, and especially trace elements, and without them it is impossible to maintain health. At the slightest suspicion of helminthiasis, action must be taken. It is not enough to take pills for worms. It is necessary to get rid of the consequences of the presence of parasites in order to provide prevention. However, the first thing to do is choose a safe, but effective complex that will get rid of helminths with a minimal "drug strike".
What are the criteria for choosing pills for worms
In order to prevent chronic poisoning of the body with helminths and remove all forms of parasites (adults, eggs, etc. ) from the body, special drugs are required. When choosing, you need to consider the following:
- Time to get the result - remember that drugs that promise to get rid of the disease in one to three days are usually highly toxic, and compare the effects and possible consequences.
- Spectrum and scope of the problem: there are drugs for certain types of parasites, as well as drugs with complex effects;
- Harmlessness to the body - side effects, severity of recovery after exposure to the drug;
- the ability to use pills for the treatment and prevention of subsequent infection - it is desirable that the drug can be safely drunk in courses with interruptions;
- Composition - the ratio of active and auxiliary components, naturalness;
- daily dosage and risk of overdose - what happens if you exceed the recommended amount?
- Organoleptic characteristics: is the size right for you the shape of the preparation?
- Balance between price and result.
Based on these and other criteria, the TOP of the required and effective tablets for worms is compiled. We list the funds that are included in most of these ratings.
Albendazole-based drug
Chewable tablets with a wide variety of effects. The species eliminated are duct tape, round worms, trematodes. A single dose of the drug is used to treat ascariasis, ankylostomiasis. The drug is made in India, is inexpensive and can be drunk from the age of six. The duration of the course is chosen by the doctor - usually from 3 to 30 days. It is advisable to take it after meals, you can complement it with other medicinal complexes.
The drug is very effective due to the increased concentration of the active ingredient - it contains 400 mg of albendazole per tablet. To avoid relapse, a repeated course is recommended. Despite the advantages, it is worth using the drug carefully, since:
- It's a powerful prescription drug;
- With liver disease, the drug is contraindicated during breastfeeding.
- If the dose is calculated incorrectly (and this is not easy), drug poisoning is possible.
Piperazine
Well-known anthelmintic tablets with proven antihelminthic effectiveness. This is an inexpensive drug with a wide coverage of parasites, the deworming rate of which reaches 95%. Works best with roundworms and pinworms. Benefits of pills:
- short course - single or double dose;
- can be taken with and after meals;
- different dosage options - 200 and 500 mg of piperazine adipenate.
In order for "Piperazine" to be effective against parasites, doctors recommend making evening enemas between courses. Children under three to six years of age should not receive it, the dosage must be carefully selected after analyzing the patient's condition. Other disadvantages of the drug are strict requirements for personal hygiene between administrations, the need to drink tablets at least two to three times to get the effect.
The drug is based on mebendazole.
It is a universal anthelmintic that disrupts sugar metabolism in helminths, causing them to become depleted and removed from the body. The drug works well against roundworms, trichinae tapeworms, pinworms and less common parasites. Its price is affordable, it is easy to take. The dose and duration of the course is determined by the diagnosis, pills are usually taken three times a day after eating.
For all the effectiveness of the drug, it is a rather dangerous remedy with a large list of contraindications. It:
- not allowed for children under three years of age, pregnant women, people with intestinal diseases, ulcerative colitis;
- has poor tolerance to drugs - among antagonists and metronidazole carbamazepine, which is prescribed for neuropathic pain and spasms;
- Often causes dangerous side effects - changes in blood composition, hair loss with prolonged use, observation of dyspeptic manifestations, etc.
Preparation with mebendazole and other excipients
A drug with various indications that is most effective for nematodes, pinworms, roundworms and cestodes. The main component is the same as in the previous drug - mebendazole. Its 10%, the rest is occupied by auxiliary components - starch, magnesium stearate. The composition contains lactose, and it is better for a person with lactose intolerance to avoid it.
The advantages of the drug include ease of administration, good digestibility and the rarity of allergic reactions. In patients with diabetes, tablets reduce the need for insulin. However, when taking the drug, you need to very carefully monitor the level of glucose and the condition of the liver and kidneys. The drug affects them a lot. Other disadvantages:
- a ban on use with lipophilic components;
- Drowsiness (cannot be taken while driving), possible discoloration of the whites of the eyes to a yellowish tinge;
- Contraindications - intestinal diseases, breastfeeding and others.
Hexachloro-para-xylene
Antihelminthic for the age of four, active against extraintestinal invasion. This is a rare example of a complex that helps with opisthorchiasis (invasion by worms from the bile ducts), as well as with schistosomes, larvae of pork tapeworm, trematodes, and cestodes. However, it is not suitable for treating roundworms.
The drug and similar complexes are extremely toxic. With a one-time admission, patients are even admitted to hospital for a day. Despite its high efficiency, the drug has many side effects, and their frequency is high. A tenth of people who took the drug one or more times reported headache, irregular heartbeat, dizziness, vomiting, and abdominal cramps. Therefore, it is necessary to take the drug and analogues under the strict supervision of a doctor, comparing the benefits and consequences. If you are driving a car and doing dangerous work, these drugs are prohibited.
Bioactive ingredient based on herbal extracts.
Safe drug, neutral to the liver, but with a good effect against worms, protozoal infections. The tablets contain extracts of St. John's wort, centaurs, mint, tansy and other ingredients.
Benefits of the drug:
- complex effect without a strong blow to the liver;
- Neutralization of individuals at all stages of development;
- quick effect.
Disadvantages of the drug - a high risk of allergic reactions, a ban on use during pregnancy and lactation. The drug has a fairly high daily intake (six tablets) and it is not very convenient to take. With a large-scale infection, the need for long-term prevention may be ineffective.
Pirantel
Inexpensive and quite effective drug approved for children due to its low toxicity. There is a special form for babies up to three years old - a suspension. In it and the tableted variety, the common active ingredient is pyrantelpamoate.
The tablets are fatal to roundworms, have a strong effect on trichocephalosis and ankylostomiasis. In other diseases, the drug is ineffective. They are convenient to take, but it is important for the doctor to choose the dosage regimen and time period. Other disadvantages are the intolerance to piperazine (they are mutually neutralized) and laxatives, as well as contraindications. These are myasthenia gravis, kidney failure, etc.
Levamisole-based drug
Another species recommended for controlling nematodes, roundworms, hookworms, etc. The tablets can be drunk from the third year of life, they are conveniently received - once, less often twice. The dosage of the anthelmintic is based on the patient's weight. The capsule contains 50 mg levamisole.
A convenient and effective drug is very popular and safe, but it is contraindicated for pregnant and nursing mothers. Also, you can not drink the drug on patients who have low levels of white blood cells in their blood.
Collection of herbs with a high concentration of anthelmintic bioflavonoids.
Its advantages:
- vegetable origin - in the composition of fragrant carnation, tansy, aspen bark;
- almost complete absence of contraindications;
- no side effects.
Capsules are taken daily, before meals the dose is six per day. In addition to inconvenient administration, among the disadvantages of the drug, it should be noted that it is not very effective in the case of large-scale helminth invasion.
Anthelmintic complex
A therapeutic complex of six drugs. They consist of natural bitterness (bitter tonics), antiseptics, anti-inflammatory and anthelmintic ingredients. All components are of vegetable origin and in the complex give a strong therapeutic and prophylactic effect of the broadest spectrum.
The difference between the complex and other anthelmintics is in the fight against the invasion of helminths, in the elimination of parasites at all stages, as well as in the detoxification and elimination of the consequences of their presence in the body. The preparations contain biosorbents and microelements that are essential for restoring health and normal functioning of internal organs.
The complex is taken twice a day, one tablet of each drug. Its advantages:
- high efficiency against 150 types of parasites in the formed and cystic stage - such results are not shown by any of the synthesized chemical preparations;
- mild effect without "drug shock" - all preparations of the complex are non-toxic and safe with prolonged use;
- Restoring the balance of trace elements disturbed by helminths and eliminating phenol, formaldehyde poisons and other products of the vital activity of worms;
- omnidirectional effect - anthelmintic, antiparasitic, antiseptic, bifidogenic, antifungal (when taking all drugs included in the program).
The anti-parasitic complex is indicated to eliminate helminthic invasion and anthelmintic prophylaxis. It is recommended that the anti-parasitic and health-promoting program be completed in three-month courses with a weekly break from each month. The number of courses per year is one or two for high-risk patients - three or four.