What is trichinosis?
Trichinosis is an infection caused by a cord of trichina, a parasite that colonizes animal bodies such as pigs and wild game. Most trichinosis cases are relatively mild and also relatively rare due to increased awareness of food safety. In some cases, however, trichinosis can lead to tissue damage in the nervous system, causing brain damage, coma or even death. To avoid this unfortunate turnover of events, people should always cook pork and wild games at at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit (71 degrees Celsius). In all cases, the process of the disease begins with an animal as a pig that will pick up the larval forms of the parasite in food. Within a few days, adult worms develop in the intestinal tract and larvae are transported by bloodstream to the animal muscles, when they encyst, go to a sleeping state where they can survive for up to ten years.
When someone consumes insufficiently cooked meat with encysted parasites, their stomach acids dissolve the cyst and release the worms Trichinae.Within a few days, intestinal symptoms will begin to manifest as worms ripen. If the worms are allowed to reproduce, create larvae, the victim begins to experience muscle pain, fever, headaches and nausea when the larvae move out into the body through blood circulation to encyst.
trichinosis becomes dangerous if the worms manage to work into the central nervous system. Although it is rare, it becomes and can be fatal. Although worms cannot survive in the central nervous system, they may cause some damage before the final death, and if enough worms are present, this damage may be weakening.
As soon as the worms get into the bloodstream, it is difficult to treat trichinosis. Anti -inflammatory drugs can be pressed to help reduce pain, itching and other symptoms that accompany the migration of worms. For this reason, doctors like to treat suspicious cases of trichinosis early, prescribedVali antiparasitic drugs within a few days hope that they kill adult worms in the intestinal tract.
Cooking pork and gaming meat on a safe internal temperature eliminates the risk of trichinosis because parasites cannot survive at high temperatures. However, if you eat insufficiently cooked pork or game and feel bad within a few days, you should see a doctor immediately; He or she can take a sample of blood or stool to check signs of trichinosis and start treatment.