Patient's question:
My daughter is one year and eight months old, and she has poor appetite. I heard from others that she might have roundworms. Could a child this young really have intestinal parasites? How can I determine if she has intestinal parasites? If she does, what medication should I use and what dosage should it be? I urgently need an answer, and I am very grateful!!!!!!!Doctor's answer:
How can you determine if she has intestinal parasites? It's simple. Just go to the hospital for a routine stool examination, and it will be clear as day.It selectively and irreversibly inhibits the parasite's glucose uptake, depleting endogenous glycogen in the parasite's body and inhibiting fumarate reductase. This blocks ATP production, causing the parasite to gradually die due to energy depletion. It belongs to the benzimidazole class of drugs. Very little is absorbed in the intestines, with only 5% absorbed after oral administration. It directly acts on adult parasites and eggs in the intestines and is excreted in the feces within 24 hours. The 5% that is absorbed is rapidly metabolized into sulfones and sulfoxides in the liver. These metabolites can kill larvae in tissues and adult parasites and eggs in the intestines and are excreted by the kidneys within 48 hours. It has no accumulation effect in the body.