Fecal filled colons containing literally pounds of fetid stools are the perfect host for colon parasites to make their home and weaken their host. Proper colon care such as a healthy diet and regular cleansing can all but eliminate the risk of these gut bugs.
Colon parasites enter the body by the mouth through infested food or water, mosquitoes, sexual contact, or enter through the nose. Once they infiltrate a host, they have methods of obtaining sustenance; they can eat your food or have you for supper. People with malnutrition or in poor health are especially vulnerable to colon parasites. Parasites vary in size; some may be so small that they cannot be seen without a microscope; others, like whale tapeworms, may reach one hundred feet upon maturity.
People can fall victim to roundworms just as easily as their pet dogs. Poorly functioning colons provide a safe house for these colon parasites. They resemble earthworms and breed at staggering rates. Each roundworm produces over 200,000 young a day. Symptoms of roundworm infestations are abdominal discomfort, eye pain, and rashes resulting from waste secretions from the worms. Roundworm infestation may result in blockages in the intestinal track, peritonitis, hemorrhage, and malnutrition due to lack of absorption of nutrients.
You can add hookworm to the nasty member list of the colon parasites. Immature worms use their teeth to chew through the intestinal wall, and feed on the blood of their host. Symptoms signaling you may have these nasty gut bugs squatting in your colon include iron deficiency, irrational desire to eat dirt (pica), distended abdomen, and mental dullness. A severe infestation can result in death from secondary infection or hemorrhage.
Another gut bug or colon parasite is the common whipworm. They are white and can grow to be about one to two inches long. Symptoms of infestation are bloody stools, pain in the lower abdomen, hemorrhage if they penetrate the intestinal wall, bacterial infection as a result of their burrowing, weight loss and anal prolapses. Infected hosts may die as a result of hemorrhage or as a result of secondary infection.
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