There are a huge number of parasites in the world, such as worms, ticks, fungi, and getting infected with them means losing your health, suffering, and sometimes even death. For some people, the prospect of acquiring such "neighbors" causes severe anxiety, forcing them to complicate their own lives to the extreme: giving up animal food, washing their hands 100 times a day, and so on.
Working with a good psychotherapist helps to get rid of such phobias, but what if you don't have the money to visit a doctor? The following practical recommendations will help you weaken, and maybe even completely overcome, the fear of parasitic infection.
Read the Statistics
Studying statistics helps to realize how insignificant the probability of getting infected with parasites is. For example, with a diagnosis of cysticercosis in the United States, no more than 0.0003% of the population is hospitalized annually, and the incidence of strongyloidiasis is practically zero, if we don't count cases that are detected in illegal immigrants.
Even ascariasis, which affects approximately 1 billion people worldwide, is almost non-existent in the United States. In other words, the real risk of dying from worms or fungi is as small as winning the Powerball jackpot.
Familiarize yourself with treatment methods
In most cases, the fear of parasites is dictated by myths about the supposedly incurable nature of such diseases, which is completely untrue.
For example, filariasis or onchocerciasis, which 50 years ago led patients to disability, can now be cured by a single dose of 1-3 tablets of Stromectol - an antiparasitic drug based on ivermectin. And if you don't go after the original and buy generic Stromectol, it will cost even less - about $2 per tablet instead of the standard price of $4-5.
Review treatment methods
In most cases, the fear of parasites is dictated by myths about the supposed incurability of such diseases, which does not correspond to reality.
For example, filariasis or onchocerciasis, which 50 years ago led patients to disability, are now treated with a single dose of 1-3 tablets of Stromectol - an antiparasitic drug based on ivermectin. And if you don't chase after the "original" and buy generic Stromectol, it will be even cheaper - about $2 per tablet instead of the standard price of $4-5.
Analyze the number of reviews
Patients who face difficult-to-treat diseases often describe their suffering on the internet. It is easy to find reviews from cancer patients, lupus, Parkinson's, etc.
But if you set a goal to read comments from patients who have been unable to cure the same strongyloidiasis for a long time, it will be extremely difficult to do so for a simple reason - there are no such reviews on the Internet. Therefore, either people do not suffer from parasitic diseases at all, or they are easily cured of them.
Find out the causes of infection
Finally, it is not superfluous to think about how an ordinary city dweller can get infected with worms at all. Food products undergo sanitary control, tap water is sanitized, and washing hands has long become a norm of behavior.
It turns out that if you don't chase after stray cats on the street and don't take walks in African jungles, then parasites simply have nowhere to come from!
Conclusion
The final conclusion from all of the above is quite clear: you need to try very hard to become infected with any parasites in the modern world, and even if this suddenly happens, modern medicine will easily remove the "uninvited guests" from the body.
If you deeply think about these words, not only with your mind, but also with your heart, then the fear will instantly recede - after all, how can you be afraid of a threat that does not exist?
