Intestinal Parasites Infections in Viet Nam

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Intestinal Parasites Infections in Viet Nam

• HUONG DI-THE WAY

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Intestinal Parasites Infection

• Parasitic diseases are much more widespread than
  many people realizes.
• These diseases affect not only impoverished
  peoples in remotes countries but they also can be
  an important health problems for rich and poor
  throughout the world, including the United
  States.

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Intestinal Parasites Infections

• Three hundred millions people worldwide are
  severely ill with worms and of those, at least
  half are school-age children.
• Parasitic worms cause malnutrition, stunted
  growth and diminished intellectual capacity among
  millions of children all over the world

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Intestinal Parasites Infections In Vietnam

• The majority of children in Viet Nam are heavily
  affected by worm infections that decrease their
  nutritional status, their school performance and
  their resistance to other infectious diseases Dr
  LEE Jong-wook, Director General, World Health
  Organization.

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Intestinal Parasite Infections in Viet Nam

• In Viet Nam, there are about 60 millions people
  infected with Ascaris
• 40 millions people infected with Hookworm
• 40 millions people infected with Pinworm
  Central Institute of Parasitological Disease-
  Hanoi.

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Intestinal Parasites Infections cause

• Anemia
• Malnutrition
• Blockage of the intestine
• Pancreatitis
• Biliary obstruction
• Pneumonia, pleurisy
• Visual and auditory disorders

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Intestinal Parasites Infections cause

• Epilepsy
• Hypoproteinemia
• Allergic reaction
• Bloody diarrhea
• Rectal prolapsed
• Weight loss

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Intestinal Parasites Infections cause

• Chronic diarrhea
• Vaginitis
• Parasitic meningitis
• Myocarditis, heart failure
• Nausea, vomiting...

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Ascaris

• Ascaris is a worm that lives in the small
  intestine. Adult female worms can grow over 12
  inches in length, adult males are smaller.
• Ascaris is the most common human worm infection.
  Infection occurs worldwide and is most common in
  tropical areas where sanitation and hygiene are
  poor.
• Children are infected more often than adults.

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Ascaris..
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Hookworm

• Hookworm is an intestinal parasite that usually
  causes mild diarrhea or cramps.
• Hookworm infections occur mostly in tropical and
  subtropical climates and are estimated to infect
  about 1 billion people -- about one-fifth of the
  world's population

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Hookworm

• Heavy infection with hookworm can create serious
  health problems for newborns, children, pregnant
  women, and persons who are malnourished.

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How serious is Hookworm infection?

• Hookworm can cause
• 1-Anemia and protein deficiency due to blood
  loss,
• 2-Loss of iron and protein can retard growth and
  mental development

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How serious is Hookworm infection?

• 3-Tiredness, difficulty breathing, enlargement of
  the heart, and irregular heartbeat.
• 4-Sometimes hookworm infection is fatal,
  especially among infants

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Hookworm

• Hookworm

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Hookworms in blood
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Hookworms
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Pinworm infection

• This infection is caused by a small, white
  intestinal worm called Enterobius vermicularis
  Pinworms are about the length of a staple and
  live in the rectum of humans.
• While an infected person sleeps, female pinworms
  leave the intestines through the anus and deposit
  eggs on the surrounding skin.

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Pinworm

• The most common worm infection in the United
  States.
• School-age children have the highest rates of
  infection. In some groups nearly 50 of children
  are infected..

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Pinworm

• Infection often occurs in more than one family
  member..
• Child care centers, often have cases of pinworm
  infection.

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Pinworm in the stomach
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Symptoms of a pinworm infection

• Itching around the anus, disturbed sleep, and
  irritability are common symptoms. loss of
  appetite, restlessness, and difficulty sleeping.
• Most symptoms of pinworm infection are mild many
  infected people have no symptoms.

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Treatment Of Intestinal Parasites

• Intestinal Parasites infections can be
  successfully treated with medication
• Mebendazol and Albendazol are two basic medicine
• With Just One dose all parasites will be clean
  out from the intestine

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Prevention

• Many parasitic intestinal diseases result from
  human careless and lack of appropriate personnel
  hygiene and sanitation measures.
• Thus, beside medication to cure them, the best
  solution rest in preventing these infections.

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PLEASE HELP!!!!

• The infected patients with ascaris, hookworm.
  pinworm disease. in Viet Nam need your help
• With just your ONE DOLLAR, we can CLEAN the
  intestinal infection for one person

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A Warning from Vietnam
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Pictures of our last Mission to VN

• On October 15-18, 2006, Huong Di-The Way and The
  Vietnamese Mission Board with it medical team
  have distributed 12,000 doses of anti-intestinal
  parasites infections to the people of Nguyen Giap
  village in Hai Duong province, Vietnam

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