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How is strongyloidiasis treated?
Strongyloidiasis is treated with medicine. The best medicine to treat it is ivermectin. The standard treatment is 200 micrograms per kilogram of ivermectin once daily for 2 days.
How do you get rid of Strongyloides stercoralis?
The medicine of choice to treat strongyloidiasis is a single dose of the antiparasitic medication ivermectin (Stromectol). This drug works by killing the worms in your small intestine. Your doctor may also prescribe two courses of albendazole (Albenza), to be taken 10 days apart.
What is the drug of choice for strongyloidiasis?
Ivermectin is the drug of choice (DOC) for acute and chronic strongyloidiasis in intestinal stages, hyperinfection syndrome, and disseminated strongyloidiasis.
How is disseminated strongyloidiasis treated?
Patients with hyperinfection and disseminated disease should be treated with ivermectin 200 μg/kg per day orally until stool and/or sputum examination findings are negative for 2 weeks. Rectal administration is recommended for patients with malabsorption or who are unable to tolerate oral therapy.
How do you test for strongyloidiasis?
Strongyloides infection is best diagnosed with a blood test. Strongyloides infection may be diagnosed by seeing larvae in stool when examined under the microscope, but it might not find the worms in all infected people. This may require that you provide multiple stool samples to your doctor or the laboratory.
What does strongyloidiasis look like?
Strongyloidiasis is infection with Strongyloides stercoralis. Findings include abdominal pain and diarrhea, rash, pulmonary symptoms (including cough and wheezing), and eosinophilia. Diagnosis is by finding larvae in stool or small-bowel contents or occasionally in sputum or by detection of antibodies in blood.
How do you test for Strongyloides stercoralis?
What are the symptoms of strongyloidiasis?
The majority of people infected with Strongyloides do not have symptoms. Those who do develop symptoms often have non-specific, or generalized complaints. Some people develop abdominal pain, bloating, heartburn, intermittent episodes of diarrhea and constipation, a dry cough, and skin rashes.
How do you test for Strongyloides Stercoralis?