How to Cleanse the Internal Parasites
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 10:37AM This excerpt on "How to Cleanse Parasites from Your Colon" is taken from the DrFlores website. To finish reading the article or to read the article in its entirety, CLICK HERE
Intestinal Parasites: How to Cleanse them From Your Colon
You are probably thinking “Why would I need an herbal parasite cleanse? I don’t have parasites, right?” Well, surprising as it may seem, you’re probably wrong. A vast majority of human beings have intestinal parasites and don’t even know it. In fact, the importance of a parasite colon cleanse could not be higher when you consider the various worms, bacteria, and microscopic organisms living in your body that do not belong there. At any given time there are as many as one hundred different kinds of parasitic worms living in your body. Some of these are easily viewed while others are as tiny as a bacteria, but regardless of their size, they are parasitic and do not always belong in your body.
Parasites are a variety of different sizes and can be found in almost any living creature. They need a host of some sort to make it through their full lifespan and that means a digestive track and food to leech. The smallest parasites are single cells while the largest are the tapeworms living within whales that are as long as 100 feet. Parasites enter your body through a number of means, including dirty water, uncooked food, unwashed food, and through outside forces such as mosquitoes, flies, sexual contact, or airborne contact with someone who is infected.
Symptoms
Parasites don’t just sit there either. In a relatively small number of people, the presence of parasites does not cause symptoms, or the symptoms may not be constant. In others, parasites can cause flatulence, diarrhea, bloating, and cramps. In severe cases of infection, parasites can cause nausea, vomiting, fever, bloody stools, anemia, and can even migrate to infect other parts of the body, including the lungs and even the brain. In many parts of the world, parasitic infections are a leading cause of disease and even death, and deaths due to parasitic infections have been known to occur even in supposedly “safe” industrialized nations.
Knowing whether someone has a parasite in their system or not can be hard to determine since the symptoms will be very similar to a number of different diseases or ailments. People who have parasite infections in their intestines are often malnourished and generally weak. They can suffer from a variety of seemingly insignificant or unrelated problems including coughing, abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, weight loss, allergic reactions, fever, nausea, or even bloody stool. Parasites can cause anemia in their hosts, reach the lungs and cause breathing problems, and in the most extreme cases open the way for other diseases to enter your body such as viral, fungal, bacterial, and metallic poisonings.
A parasite in the human body will release many toxins and drain the host as it leaches resources for its life cycle and grows larger. This weakens your body and eventually makes it incapable of supporting itself regularly. Well before you reach this point, you need to seek out help in the form of a parasite colon cleanse.