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In today’s era, wrong eating habits, contaminated water and a little carelessness in cleanliness can make our body vulnerable to many serious and rare diseases. Whenever there is a complaint of stomach ache, cramps, gas or diarrhoea, people generally assume it to be normal food poisoning, gastritis or normal stomach upset and start adopting home remedies or get by with normal medicines from medical stores. But do you know that these seemingly minor symptoms can be an early sign of a very dangerous and little-known parasitic infection ‘Cyclosporiasis’? There is still very little awareness about this disease among the general public and patients, due to which it is not identified at the right time and the infection gradually becomes serious. According to health experts, it is an intestinal infection which spreads mainly due to the entry of a microscopic parasite ‘Cyclospora cayetanensis’ into the body and if proper treatment is not received, it completely breaks the patient physically.
Medical experts say that cyclosporiasis mainly spreads through consumption of contaminated water and food items that have come in contact with this parasite. Especially during summer and rainy season, when the level of cleanliness falls, this parasite grows rapidly. When a person drinks water or eats raw vegetables, salads and fruits that have not been properly washed or boiled, this microscopic parasite reaches his small intestine. Reaching the inner layer of the intestines, it rapidly increases its number and starts affecting the digestive system badly. Since it is not cured by simple antibiotics like bacteria or normal viruses, patients have to suffer from unbearable stomach pain for a long time. People who take less care of hygiene or are fond of eating open and unhygienic food outside, they become victims of this infection most quickly.
After cyclosporiasis infection, many obvious and painful symptoms start appearing in the body. Its most prominent and serious symptom is that the patient continues to complain of watery diarrhea for several days or weeks without stopping, accompanied by severe cramps, cramps and swelling in the stomach. Apart from this, sudden severe loss of appetite, persistent nausea, feeling like vomiting, severe fatigue in the body, lethargy and mild fever are other common signs. Due to frequent diarrhea, there is severe deficiency of water and electrolytes in the body, which leads to dehydration and severe weakness. If such problems are bothering you for a long time, then do not ignore it at all and immediately contact a good gastroenterologist or doctor and get a stool test done. Doctors usually prescribe a course of special antibiotics (such as trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) to treat it. To prevent this, always drink boiled or filtered water, wash vegetables and fruits thoroughly with vinegar or salt water and take special care of personal hygiene to stay safe from this dangerous parasite.