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Fun Facts:

  • Trichuriasis affects about 600 million people
  • "Whipworm” is a nickname based on the way the worm looks—like a whip, with a thick section that looks like a “handle” on one end and a narrow section that looks like the whip at the other
  • Most people who seek treatment for whipworm infection make a full recovery.
  • Males or normally smaller than females

Trichuriasis

Symptoms:

Many people are diagnosed with the infection, they're mostly asymptomatic . But, in people with heavy infections, whipworm can cause gastrointestinal problems, such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, mucous or bloody stools weight loss, painful urination, and weakness. Rectal prolapse is a hallmark, albeit rare, symptom of a heavy T. trichiura infection that occurs in children more frequently than adults. When rectal prolapse occurs, worms can often be identified on the edematous rectum.

Heavy infections in children display the most severe symptoms, and nutritional deficiencies incurred from the infection can retard growth.

Birthday & Daddy:

The first written record of it was made by Morgani, an Italian scientist, who found the presence of the parasite in a case of worms living in the colon in 1740.

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Description:

Trichuriasis is a parasitic infection primarily in the tissue of the cecum, appendix, colon and rectum.

Otherwise known as "whipworm."

Treatment:

the most effective treatment for whipworm was a single-dose therapy of albendazole, which produced at 79.3% “cure rate” of adult worms and a 93.8% egg-reduction rate. Albendazole is also used to treat for other nematode infections and works by decreasing whipworm ATP production, causing energy depletion, immobilization, and finally death.

Causes:

Humans typically get whipworm infections from consuming soil or water contaminated with the whipworm parasites or their eggs. Usually, the soil or water has been contaminated by infected animal or human feces

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