How do you treat parasites
How do you treat parasites |
- Idaho mom planned to inject daughter with bleach to kill 'parasites,' docs say - KREM.com
- A teen went to the ER for seizures. Doctors found tapeworm eggs in his brain - USA TODAY
- Cryptosporidium parasite detected in Minnesota groundwater - Canada Free Press
| Idaho mom planned to inject daughter with bleach to kill 'parasites,' docs say - KREM.com Posted: 29 Mar 2019 12:47 PM PDT  SPOKANE, Wash. — An Idaho mom who prompted an AMBER Alert last week planned to inject her daughter with bleach to kill parasites, according to court documents. Police said a missing and "possibly endangered" 10-year-old Nampa, Idaho girl was found with her mother in Cheney last week. Nampa police said the girl and her mother, 41-year-old Brooke Helmandollar, were last seen at a Nampa hotel on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 19 and were believed to be headed toward Portland, Oregon. They were reportedly spotted in Hermiston, Oregon, on Wednesday. After the alert was issued, a tip called into the Cheney Police Department led officers to Helmandollar and her daughter, police said. Helmandollar believed she and her daughter were infested with parasites, and planned to have the two of them drink charcoal, receive enemas or colon cleaning, and inject bleach to kill the parasites, according to court documents. Helmandollar later told officers she was suffering from some health issues, including the parasite infestation, according to court documents. She said that she sought medical help for these issues but felt as though the doctors were not listening to her. According to court documents, Helmandollar was taken to Sacred Heart for a mental evaluation and her 10-year-old daughter was placed into the care of Washington Child Protective Services. PREVIOUS: Missing Nampa 10-year-old found with her mother in Cheney On March 12, Helmandollar called her daughter's school and told them she would be picking her up to treat her "parasite problem," according to court documents. When Helmandollar picked up her daughter, a staff member noticed the car's seats were covered with plastic. Helmadollar then told the staff member that they were staying in a motel because the house was infected with parasites and insects, according to court documents. When officers spoke with Helmandollar's husband John, he denied that their apartment was infested with anything, according to court documents. John Helmandollar said his wife suffers from mental health issues and that he was trying to get her into a rehab facility. John Helmandollar told officers he believed the combination of prescriptions she was on caused some of her mental health problems, according to court documents. Officers also found that Brooke Helmandollar tested positive for methamphetamine in November 2018 and was a known marijuana user. When officers from the Nampa Police Department found the hotel where Helmandollar and her daughter were staying, they found the items she planned to use to get rid of the parasites. Helmandollar told officers the bleach would have been used for cleaning the area rather than injecting into her daughter, according to court documents. When officers spoke with John Helmandollar, they realized he was not truthful when asked about the whereabouts of his wife and daughter, according to court documents. He initially claimed that they were still staying in a motel. Officers determined that John Helmandollar knew his wife's location and was aware she had left town for Portland, Oregon, according to court documents. They checked John Helmandollar's phone and found out he had been in constant communication with his wife. A safety plan would have prohibited Brooke Helmandollar from having or caring for their daughter unsupervised, according to court documents. According to court documents, John Helmandollar signed the agreement but violated it, saying his wife convinced him it was "not enforceable unless it was from the court." During the investigation, law enforcement from Idaho used technology to locate Brooke Helmandollar's phone in or near Hermiston, Oregon, according to court documents. Hellmandollar told Cheney police that they had arrived in Hermiston late at night and slept in the car. Shortly after the law enforcement officers from Idaho located the phone in Oregon, the phone was turned off and there were no additional signals detected, according to court documents. Officers spoke with John Hellmandollar several times during the investigation and he did not express concern for his daughter's safety, according to court documents. When he found out about the AMBERT ALERT, he said, "That's not going to look good." A search warrant was issued for Brooke Hellmandollar's cellphone – which remains at Sacred Heart Medical Center – and all text messages, call logs, Snapchat logs and Facebook messages from March 12-20. Brooke Hellmandollar is charged with second degree criminal mistreatment of a child.  |
| A teen went to the ER for seizures. Doctors found tapeworm eggs in his brain - USA TODAY Posted: 28 Mar 2019 06:34 PM PDT An 18-year-old man who went to the emergency room after suffering seizures soon discovered he had parasites in his brain, according to a case study published Wednesday. In addition to tonic-clonic seizures, during which a person can lose consciousness and experience violent muscle contractions, the man's parents said he'd been having pain in his groin for a week, according to the study published in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine. During an examination, the man appeared confused and had swelling over his right eye, according to the report from Nishanth Dev and S. Zafar Abbas at the ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Faridabad, India. An MRI and ultrasound would soon reveal the cause of his symptoms: several well-defined cysts in his cerebral cortex, brain stem, cerebellum, eye and right testicle. His diagnosis: neurocysticercosis, a parasitic infection caused by cysts containing the larvae of a pork tapeworm. Neurocysticercosis is the most severe form of the disease and can be contracted when a person swallows "microscopic eggs passed in the feces of a person who has an intestinal pork tapeworm," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Once inside the body, the tapeworm's eggs hatch and become larvae that travel to the brain, causing the potentially fatal infection. Doctors decided not to give the young man antiparasitic medication because of the high number of cysts and the possibility it would worsen swelling in the brain and inflammation. Given the cysts near his eye, inflammation could've led to a loss of vision. Tapeworm: Her legs were tingling. Then, doctors pulled a tapeworm out of her spine 'Brain-eating amoeba': CDC testing Texas pool after parasite kills 29-year-old Rat lungworm: Man left paralyzed after eating a slug has died, Australian media reports The patient was instead given dexamethasone, often used to treat inflammation, and anti-seizure medication. He died two weeks later. The study did not identify the man. Neurocysticercosis is a leading cause of epilepsy worldwide according to the World Health Organization. Although the disease is prevalent mainly in developing countries, the CDC estimates there are 1,000 new hospitalizations related to the disease in the United States each year. Treatment can be incredibly costly: the average charge for hospitalization related to the disease was $37,600, according to the CDC. Follow N'dea Yancey-Bragg on Twitter: @NdeaYanceyBragg
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| Cryptosporidium parasite detected in Minnesota groundwater - Canada Free Press Posted: 30 Mar 2019 08:55 AM PDT  Some water samples from wells in Minnesota tested positive for the parasite Cryptosporidium.
Most Cryptosporidium outbreaks associated with drinking water sources have been traced to surface waters such as lakes and rivers that become contaminated by sewage discharge or livestock runoff. In contrast, water from aquifers deep within the ground was not thought to be as vulnerable because the overlying soil and sediments can filter out Cryptosporidium oocysts. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires that public water systems with a surface water source monitor and treat for Cryptosporidium contamination, whereas groundwater is exempt from these regulations unless known to be infiltrated by surface waters. Mark Borchardt and colleagues at the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Geological Survey and Minnesota Department of Health wondered if they could detect Cryptosporidium parasites in public water system wells with variable surface water influences. Over a two-year period, the researchers collected water samples from 145 wells supplying public water systems across the state of Minnesota. They tested for Cryptosporidium DNA with a sensitive technique called quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). The team found that 40 percent of the wells tested positive for Cryptosporidium at least once, while 15 percent were positive more than once. The standard microscopic method also showed Cryptosporidium in some of the wells. The prevalence and levels of contamination were similar regardless of whether groundwater was influenced by surface water. These results suggest that soil may not completely prevent Cryptosporidium oocysts from reaching groundwater, and therefore, "monitoring and treatment measures should be considered for groundwater-supplied public water systems," the researchers say. The new findings also indicate that additional work is needed to better understand how the Cryptosporidium got into deep groundwater wells and to characterize potential health threats. The authors acknowledge funding from the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment Fund.  American Chemical Society -- Bio and Archives | Comments American Chemical Society, ACS is a congressionally chartered independent membership organization which represents professionals at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry and sciences that involve chemistry. Please adhere to our commenting policy to avoid being banned. As a privately owned website, we reserve the right to remove any comment and ban any user at any time. Comments that contain spam, advertising, vulgarity, threats of violence and death, racism, anti-Semitism, or personal or abusive attacks on other users may be removed and result in a ban.  |
When consumed in contaminated water, the microscopic parasite Cryptosporidium can cause symptoms of stomach cramps, diarrhea and fever. Now, researchers reporting in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology have detected evidence of the parasite in about 40 percent of surveyed wells in public water systems in Minnesota –– even wells not influenced by surface water. The team emphasizes that they don't know whether the parasite levels are high enough to actually cause health concerns.| You are subscribed to email updates from "How do you treat parasites" - Google News. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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