Parasites in the Body

Parasites - Another Missing Diagnosis

Is it possible that you have undiagnosed nutrition-thieving worm parasites living in your encrusted intestinal tract? There are about three hundred types of parasites thriving in Australia today.

June Wiles, PhD, and parasite expert notes: "Parasites are vermin that steal your food, drink your blood and leave their excrement in your body to be re-absorbed back into the blood stream".

It’s easy for people to get worms - pinworms, tapeworms, hookworms, ringworms, roundworms, and Giardia Lamblia, the microscopic worms now pandemic in much of Australia and the world.

(1) Platyhelminthes (flatworms):

 General Characteristics of flatworms :

• These are the first organisms to exhibit three distinct cell layers. They are classified as acoleomates meaning they have no true body cavity
  (coelom). These organisms exhibit cephalization.
• The phylum contain 3 classes:
  • Trematoda (parasitic flukes)
  • Cestoda (parasitic tapeworms)
  • Turbellaria (free living Planaria).
• They can reproduce asexually (regeneration) or sexually (hermaphroditic).
• The parasites exhibit a complex life cycle usually involving several intermediate hosts.

(2) Cestodes (The Tapeworm):

Tapeworms are intestinal parasites that usual infest mammals.
They are rather long flat animals sometimes growing to lengths of 40 feet.
The animal is composed of several parts:

• The head area is called the scolex contains a ring of hooks at its tip and is ringed with lateral suckers
• The neck neck is where the proglottids or body parts grow from.

• The animal does not contain a mouth nor digestive organs, since it lives off of the host's digested food.
• The animal self fertilizes and sends it eggs out of the host along with the fecal material.
• Humans usually get infected with tapeworm by eating undercooked infected beef or pork so it is very important to ensure all food is cooked well.

3) Trematoda (The Flukes) :

• The fluke is an internal parasite usually living in the host's liver.
• There are several species of fluke, the sheep liver fluke and Chinese liver fluke.
• Blood flukes : schistosoma
• Flukes must spend their intermediate development in special types of snails.
• If the snail is not present the life cycle of the fluke will end.
• Humans pick up flukes in several ways including eEating infected fish and walking barefooted in infected waters
• Flukes contain 2 suckers on its body, one ventral and the other anterior.
  
• They have a well developed digestive system and reproduce hermaphroditically.
• Their eggs leave the body with the solid waste of the host.

(4)  Nematoda  (Roundworms)

• Ascaris lumbricoides
• Pin worm (hookworms)
•  Trichinilla

General Characteristics:

• They contain three cell layers.
• They possess bilateral symmetry.
• They are pseudocoelomates. Their body cavity is partially lined with mesoderm so they call it a false body cavity.
• They possess a one way digestive system - mouth, intestine and anus.
• They contain separate sexes. The female being the larger of the pair. Females are capable of producing 100 of thousands of eggs per day. The male usually dies after copulation
• Many of the phylum are free living worms but some are parasitic and cause many terrible diseases all throughout the world.
• They have a circular brain and several longitudinal nerve cords. The nitrogenous waste is collected by two lateral canals and emptied from the body through an excretory pore located in the head area.
• They contain longitudinal muscles only. This makes it difficult for the worm to move in a coherent manner.
• Their body is covered with a tough cuticle - t his prevents the parasitic worms from being digested and the free living worms from drying out.
• Parasitic worms exhibit a complex life cycle but much of the cycle is shared by most of the parasites. The mode of entry into the host vary from injection by an insect, to drinking egg fill contaminated water. Once the eggs or larvae make it into the body the organisms take a 10 day trip around the body growing and developing. After the trip is over most of them come out in the lungs and crawl up to the throat, where they are reswallowed into the intestine where they take up residence.
• Worms like

• the Trichina worm enter the muscle tissue and remain their until someone eats them.
• Filarial worms enter the lymph canals and block them causing massive swelling.

• Here are some pictures of just a few of the parasites that can be thriving within us:

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