Cymatics - Vomit For Serum PORTABLE
Diagnosis is made by detection of the eggs in faeces, urine, or affected tissues. Antigens and antibodies in serum or urine can help staging the infection. DNA of the fluke can be found in sera and faeces with PCR [80]. Treatment is praziquantel.
Cymatics - Vomit for Serum
Diagnosis is confirmed by finding the fluke or eggs in the faeces, duodenal fluid, or biopsy/surgically-obtained tissue. Also, with the detection of antibodies in plasma or antigens in serum or stool [100]. Triclabendazol is the drug of choice [68].
The adult worms living in the bowel can cause none or non-specific symptoms such as abdominal pain or discomfort, nausea/vomiting, or diarrhoea. Big amounts of worms can cause intestinal obstruction, especially in children [107].
Ascariasis. a. Barium fluoroscopic study of a 24-year-old woman from Ecuador with previous history of ascariasis and presenting with abdominal pain, diarrhoea, and anaemia. The study shows a worm inside a jejunal loop (arrows). The faeces examination revealed ascaris eggs and the patient was successfully treated with mebendazole. Note that the head (blunt) of the worm points proximally (arrowhead), as is usual in this parasite b. Barium fluoroscopic study of a 37-year-old male from Ecuador presenting with intermittent episodes of right lower quadrant pain, mild vomiting, diarrhoea, and fever. Stool parasitic study revealed ascaris eggs. The barium examination shows intestinal worms compatible with ascaris, note that the shown worm has swallowed barium contrast (arrows). c and d. 29-year-old woman from Ecuador with previous surgery of cholecystectomy, presenting with biliary vomiting, right upper quadrant pain, and elevated liver and cholestatic enzymes. The US examination in C displayed a long echogenic filling defect without acoustic shadowing inside the common bile duct (CBD) (arrows), with other adjacent smaller filling defects compatible with gallstones and/or debris. The ERCP in B shows a worm inside the common bile duct whose head is introduced in the right hepatic duct (arrows). The living worm was extracted with ERCP and proved to be an ascaris lumbricoides 041b061a72