what are the causes of intestinal parasites?
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Exposure to their sources.\n\nFood, water or physical contact with the adults, eggs or lave.
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Parasites are creatures that originally could not absorb the nutrients they needed from their natural environment, so they adapted to be able to forcibly extract them from higher animals. It also refers to creatures whose metabolism requires their gestation to take place in a warm space with ample food (i.e. the inside of another animal)
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Your most likely culprit is due to not wiping well after having a bowel movement.  After that, there is a whole world of things that could be causing it-such as-pin worms, infections, hemorrhoids-and many more.
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I found this article on parasites and fish.  Hope it helps.\n\nhttp://www.charkbait.com/article/RAPC2.htm
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It could be IBS, or "Irritable Bowel Syndrome". \n\nContact a doctor.
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A short answer is that eosinophils are increased in parasitic infections; however, there are also other conditions which can cause eosinophilia to occur.\n\nFunctions of eosinophils\n\nEosinophils play a role in fighting viral infections which is evident from the abundance of RNAses they contain within their granules. \nEosinophils also play a role in the allergic response, and in fibrin removal in inflammation. \nEosinophils are considered the main effector cells in asthma pathogenesis and are associated with disease severity. \nEosinophils fight helminth (worm) colonization and may be slightly elevated in the presence of certain parasites. \n\nEosinophilia\n\nAn increase in eosinophils, i.e. the presence of more than 500 eosinophils/microlitre of blood is called an eosinophilia, and is typically seen in people with a parasitic infection of the intestines, a collagen vascular disease (such as rheumatoid arthritis), malignant diseases such as Hodgkin's Disease, extensive skin diseases (such as exfoliative dermatitis), Addison's Disease, and with the use of certain drugs such as penicillin. In 1989, contaminated l-tryptophan supplements caused a deadly form of eosinophilia known as eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.\n\nI've been taught that some people have an idiopathic increase in eosinophils, but suffer no ill effects from it.  I myself usually run somewhere in the 9-13% range.  However, 22% seems a bit high, and you should try to find out what's causing it.
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the "dysenteriae" part comes from the fact that it causes dysentery, a diarrheal disease.
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Healthy people can have green poop if they eat a diet rich in leafy green vegetables, or if they consume large quantities of food coloring (in ice cream, cake frosting etc.). \n    Green poop can also be caused by excess iron in the diet, from dietary supplements, for example. If the body does not absorb all the iron consumed, the iron may stain the poop green, the color of iron (II) salts. Ordinarily, the green color may be masked by the normal brown poop color, but if digestion is thrown off by illness so that bilirubin is less concentrated in the intestine, the green color may become apparent. This can happen when a person is afflicted with diarrhea. \n    Green poop in sick babies may come from iron in baby formula not being properly absorbed, or by green pigments in bile salts (again, green from iron).
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Well... Many animals can swim or float.  So if a parasite is embedded in that creature's skin or oi living inside the intestineal tract, I'd say there wouldn't be too much problem.
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Yes I would go to the doctor and get something for them. It's just worms. Poor you!
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Whitish mucus in the stools often indicates there is inflammation of the intestines. Mucus in the stools can occur with either constipation or diarrhea.\n\nThe more common causes of mucus in the stools are bacterial overgrowth and food allergies and sensitivities. They are often easily corrected with dietary changes and supplements. With bacterial overgrowth, bloating and gas usually worsen after eating any sugar, whether it's white sugar, bread, pasta, rye, rice, or milk (which contains the sugar lactose). In contrast, people with food allergies and sensitivities react to specific foods.\n\nOther causes of mucus in the stools are:\n\n    * Ulcerative colitis\n    * Crohn's disease\n    * Celiac disease\n    * Diverticulitis
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1.Gastroenteritis: can be caused by a rapid change in diet (spicy foods, alcohol). The most common cause of infection is E. coli. \n\n2.Dysentery: A more severe form of gastroenteritis. The distinction is an incredible amount of water loss and occasional cramping. Can be caused by bacteria, a protozoan or salmonella.\n\n3.Crohn's disease: Inflammation of the intestines.\n\n4.Staphylococcal Enterotoxicosis: Disease of the lower digestive system caused by the bacteria S.aureus.\n\n5.Peptic Ulcer Disease: Caused by a bacteria (pylori) that neutralizes stomach acids and colonizes the stomach's mucosa.
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No. I'm not sure where you're making the connection with that, but you get intestinal parasites from eating infected foods. You get HIV by coming into contact with the body fluids of an infected person.
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This can be due to many reasons including stress, weight gain/loss, hormonal imbalance, thyroid, illness, medications, infections, thyroid, polyp, cyst, amongst other reasons.  This is something that should be checked out by a doctor so the exact cause can be determined.
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Heartworm is a parasitic roundworm (Dirofilaria immitis) that is spread from host to host through the bites of mosquitoes. The heartworm affects dogs, cats, wolves, coyotes, foxes, and some other animals, such as ferrets, sea lions, and even humans. The parasitic worm is called a "heartworm" because the parasite, in the final reproductive stage of its life cycle, resides in the heart of its host where it can stay for many years and may kill its host through congestive failure of the heart.\n\n\nHuman health considerations\nThe dog heartworm is a negligible public health risk, because it is unusual for humans to become infected. Additionally, human infections usually are of little or no consequence, although rarely an infected human may show signs of respiratory disease. In most cases, however, the heartworm dies shortly after arriving in the human lung, and a nodule, known as a granuloma, forms around the dead worm as it is being killed and absorbed. If an infected person happens to have a chest X-ray at that time, the granuloma may resemble lung cancer on the X-ray and require a biopsy to rule out the life threatening condition. This may well be the most significant medical consequence of human infection by the dog heartworm.\n\nAt one time it was thought that the dog heartworm infected the human eye, with most cases reported from the southeastern United States. However, these cases are now known to be caused by a closely-related parasite of raccoons, Dirofilaria tenuis. Several hundred cases of subcutaneous (under the skin) infections in humans have been reported in Europe, but these are almost always caused by another closely-related parasite, Dirofilaria repens, rather than the dog heartworm.
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Its the eosiniophils. They are responsible for counteracting parasitic infections. Don't listen to the others!! Im studying for a degree in microbiology and have jsut finnished a parasitology module!! You may also know them as acidophils.\n\nIf you don't believe me, check out somewehere like google or wikipedia, but im right.
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You just said the answer.\n\nIt is caused by too much diet