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How easy would it be for a doctor in the US to miss diagnosing worms in an adult? If a young adult woman in the US presented a verity of symptoms such as eye pain, daily vomiting, frequent infections over several years could the problem be that the doctors never tried to test throughtly for parasites. Could the problem be missed for a long time?

 

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She was diagnosed with gastroperisis and the eye pain comes and goes there isn't any treatment, she must tolerant the pain and discomfort.

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September 27 2006 at 10:30 AM (18 minutes and 25 seconds later)
         
Reply to Vicky B's Post: there has not been a real diagnosis for the eye pain. they view it as a tension headache.

mostly respitory infections, last year she started to have skin infections.

yes she has diabetes type 1 but the gastorpersis started about one year earlier ("a" typical gastopersis not conected to her sugar levels.

she eats only carbohydrates such as bread, potatoes, cereal and fat free diary. no fat, no vegtables, no meat, no fruit. to manage the gastroperisis. and she still throws up 1 or 2 times daily.

she takes alot of medication, and is highly sensitive to medication. she has had bad reactions to singular , allergic to several things.

I started to think about the parasites several times in the last couple of years but when I was watching "House" last night I realized that diagnosing parasites might be more difficult than I thought. About the same time the gastorperisis started she got a kitten. this kitten now a cat throws up once or twice a month and although her coat appears healthy she is slender and lives in the house.
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September 27 2006 at 12:19 PM (1 hour and 48 minutes and 49 seconds later)
         
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The most common parasites for we humans to get would be intestinal parasites, especially if we were to pick them up from a pet. If her kitten was never diagnosed with parasites and has always been healthy, this would seem an unlikely source. The symptoms of an intestinal parasite infection would be diarrhea, mucous in stools, abdomial cramps and gas, distended abdomen, perhaps fever and fatigue. I realize she has pain and vomiting from the gastroparesis and may even have a distended abdomen. A stool sample can easily be tested for parasites.

Other parasite infections could be in the blood, lungs or cerebral spinal fluid. All these can be eaily tested for. Of course the test for blood or lungs is much easier and less invasive that the spinal tap required to test the cerebral spinal fluid. Here is a web site with a comprehensive list of parasitic diseases: Parasites & Health

It would be impossible to diagnoses a parasitic disease without a test unless the parasite was visible in her stool, of course.

She probably has been told many times about treatment for gastroparesis but just in case she would like more information please see this web site: Gastroparesis: Treatment

And another website for a 3 step diet program to manage gastroparesis: Gastroparesis Diet for Delayed Stomach Emptying

It sounds like her immune system is really weak with all that she has going on. Has there been any other diseases considered as the cause of her gastroparesis since she had that well before the diabetes?




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