Giardia, Giardisis Parasite Infection

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What is A Giardia Parasite Infection (Giardiasis?)

A giardia infection is of the small intestinal and is caused by the microscopic parasite called giardia lamblia. Giardia infections are the most common parasitic infection in humans. Giardiasis spreads through contact with infected people. Pet dogs and cats also frequently contract giardia. You can also get giardiasis by eating contaminated food or drinking contaminated water. Giardia can be found all over the world but it’s more common in overcrowded areas without good sanitation.

How Is Giardia Spread?
A person contracts the infection from taking food and water contaminated with the infected feces of human or animals. Close contact with person with giardia infection can also lead to transmission of the infection. Giardiasis is more common in rural areas or areas where sanitation methods are low.

Once a person or animal (for example, cats, dogs, cattle, deer, and beavers) has been infected with giardia, the parasite lives in the intestines and is passed in feces. Giardia are found in both animal and human feces. Giardia also thrive in contaminated food, water and soil. They can survive outside a host for long periods of time. Accidentally consuming these parasites can lead to an infection. The most common way to get giardiasis is to drink water that contains giardia. Contaminated water can be in swimming pools, spas, and bodies of water, such as lakes.

Sources of contamination include animal feces, diapers, and agricultural runoff. Contracting giardiasis from food is less common because heat kills the parasites. Handling food with poor hygiene or eating produce rinsed in contaminated water can allow the parasite to spread. Giardiasis also spreads through personal contact. Unprotected anal sex is one way that this infection passes from one person to another.

Symptoms of Giardia Parasite Infection

The symptoms of a giardia parasite infection include:

anorexia

abdominal cramps

belching

bloating

diarrhea including repeated bouts of diarrhea

gas

weight loss and weakness

Giardia (Giardiasis) Parasite Infections

Arsenicum Album
Giardiasis with diarrhea. Stool is watery and highly offensive. The urge for stool appears after drinking or eating anything. Prostration is also marked. Burning in the abdomen may also be present. Nausea and vomiting along with the diarrhea.

Carb Vegetabilis
Used for giardia when the person has rancid, bad orutrid tasting eructations. The eructations get worse with eating and drinking.

China Officinalis
Giardia infection with diarrhea. Loose stool with undigested food particles is the prominent symptom. Loose stool with undigested food particles is the prominent symptom. The diarrhea gets worse after eating. Weakness follows diarrhea along with bloatedness, flatulence and colic. Prostration and weakness are present. Often there is gas in the entire abdomen and marked bloating. Bloatedness reduces a little with movement and leads to abdominal colic. Excessive weakness is present from recurrent bouts of diarrhea resulting from a chronic giardia infection.

Cina
Colicky, crampy pain in the abdomen is present in persons with giardia infection. Cramping, cutting, colicky pain in the abdomen. Weight loss. It also helps relieve the twisting, pressing pain around the navel.

Colocynthis
Giardiasis with abdominal cramps. Used for giardia infections with cramping, cutting, colicky pain in the abdomen. Helps relieve twisting, pressing pain around the navel. Used when severe cramping is present in the abdomen. The person gets relief by putting hard pressure on the abdomen or by bending over forward. The cramps get worse after eating or drinking.

Lycopodium
Giardia with excessive gas and a bloated abdomen. The excessive gas, is mainly in the lower abdomen. Bloatedness is also present and eating a little food worsens the condition.

Natrum Muriaticum
Used when there is emaciation and prominent weight loss after a giardia infection.

Natrum Phos
Used giardia infection that has belching of acrid, sour nature. The belching has a sour taste.