Parasites

• SingaporeMacross

  19 Jan 06, 22:40

  What are the common parasite infections found in Singapore?
• ndmmxiaomayi

  19 Jan 06, 22:56

  Asthma counted?
• ditzy

  19 Jan 06, 23:00

  Asthma is not a parasite.
• Ito_^

  19 Jan 06, 23:01

  teens.
• SingaporeMacross

  19 Jan 06, 23:04

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Asthma counted?

  why u consider it to be so?
• ndmmxiaomayi

  19 Jan 06, 23:23

  Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:

  why u consider it to be so?

  Because some parasites are known to cause asthma attacks.
  
  Cannot remember the bug's name. Just know that it's a bug and it's a parasite.
• maggot

  19 Jan 06, 23:24

  Round worms in your intestines
• oxford mushroom

  20 Feb 06, 05:13

  Round worms (Ascaris) is less common now that we have no pig farms but used to be quite common 30-50 years ago. I remember seeing a patient with elephantiasis, which is due to lymphatic obstruction by this parasite. We no longer see it. Pin worms (Enterobius) still pops up now and then among children...parents complain that their kids keep scratching their backsides...the parasites hatch in the anus and crawl back into the gut. We see alot more of unicellular parasites like amoebiasis in homosexual man and in general more parasitic infestations are seen in HIV positive patients.
  
  However, in general we do not see many parasitic infections in Singapore nowadays....you are better off going to Australia if you want to see parasitic pathology.
• SingaporeMacross

  25 Feb 06, 16:57

  were fluke infestations prevalent before?
• oxford mushroom

  26 Feb 06, 06:05

  Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:

  were fluke infestations prevalent before?

  I have seen the odd case of schistosomiasis (flukes) but they are not common. I heard schistosomasis is more common in Japan because of their love of sashimi and because the water snails found there transmit this parasite. Apparently we do not have that kind of snails around our waters. Schistosoma mansoni (blood fluke) eggs are occasionally seen but most of these patients had travelled overseas before. Schistosoma haematobium (bladder fluke) is even rarer...think I have only seen it once or twice in local patients. I have seen the odd case of Clonorchis sinensis (liver fluke)..mainly identified from the eggs rather than the worm but that is also vanishingly rare nowadays. The only kinds of worm I have actually seen in patients are Ascaris (round worm) and Enterobius (pinworm).
• SingaporeMacross

  26 Feb 06, 19:05

  Originally posted by oxford mushroom:

  I have seen the odd case of schistosomiasis (flukes) but they are not common. I heard schistosomasis is more common in Japan because of their love of sashimi and because the water snails found there transmit this parasite. Apparently we do not have that kind of snails around our waters. Schistosoma mansoni (blood fluke) eggs are occasionally seen but most of these patients had travelled overseas before. Schistosoma haematobium (bladder fluke) is even rarer...think I have only seen it once or twice in local patients. I have seen the odd case of Clonorchis sinensis (liver fluke)..mainly identified from the eggs rather than the worm but that is also vanishingly rare nowadays. The only kinds of worm I have actually seen in patients are Ascaris (round worm) and Enterobius (pinworm).

  i believe bilharzia has been eradicated from japan...
• cornyfish2000

  1 Mar 06, 01:01

  Scabies... you still see cases now and then, especially in the neglected old folks.