Hello steemian
Like I said in my introduction, am an undergraduate of animal and environmental biology.
Today after series of practicals and lecture with my lecturer who happens to be a professor/ parasitologist in university of uyo .
He gave a lecture on opportunitics amoeba (Naegleria fowleri),which happens to be one of the deadliest/dangerous parasite which kills within seventy-two hours of invading human,so I thought it wise to share it with you guys,because i know it's going to go along way to educate and save life's as well.
One might be wondering what's parasitology??
Parasitology is the study of parasites and their host and the relationship between them.
NOW TO THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
All across the nation, people engage in various recreational activities that are dangerous and potentially life threatening - skydiving, rock climbing, mountain biking. One activity that is supposed to be fun and safe, recreational bathing, has become a health risk. Recreational bathing includes swimming in pools,swimming in lakes, ponds, rivers, oceans or water parks. People become ill due to consumption of contaminated water, sometimes even when this water has been adequately chlorinated.
So am going to go strength and tell you how it infects/affects humans and ways of preventing it.Opportunistic amoeba,has a trophozoite stage which happens to be the fatal stage of the Naegleria fowleri ,it invades the nasal cavity (Nasa mucosa) by this causing difficulty in breathing.
It then forms a plate which travels along the olfactory nerves to the brain,this lead to fatal infection known as primary amoebic (meningeoencephalolitis)(Pam).
At this point the damage is irrevisible,because the brain will be damage.
Basically this parasite leaves in recreational pools,and affects children and adult respectively.
SYMPTOMS
Patients normally develop severe frontal headache,fever that results in 39°c - 40°c,other symptoms include;
Visual disturbances,confusion, seizure,and finally ends in coma and death within 24-72hours.
Control
√Proper recreational water treatment
•wearing swimming trunk when swimming
•wearing of safety swimming glasses
• recreational water was last treated
√Treatment of infected patients with AmphoterinB,Antibacterial and Anti-amoebic drugs
N/B
No satistifactory treatment has been discovered yet.
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