Stool for intestinal strongyloidiasis
Material: Feces
Test price: PLN 10.00
Waiting time for results: result after 10 working days
Reservation:
Test price: PLN 10.00
Waiting time for results: result after 10 working days
Reservation:
- Check the opening hours of the collection point and where an appointment is required.
Preparation for the examination
General
- For testing, a hazelnut-sized stool sample should be collected in a disposable container (without transport medium or preservatives).
- Until the stool is delivered to the collection point, the sealed container with the collected material should be stored in a cool place, but not longer than 2 days.
- The container containing the collected material must be signed.
Description
The test is used to detect the presence of the intestinal strongyloides, a parasite that causes a disease called strongyloidiasis.
Strongyloides larvae actively penetrate the skin of people walking barefoot or working with bare hands in areas contaminated with human feces.
At the site of penetration of the larvae of the strongyloides (feet, buttocks), skin lesions appear in the form of migratory erythema, itching, disappearing within a few hours or days.
Strongyloidea invasion is sometimes accompanied by changes in the lung parenchyma in the form of bronchopneumonic foci.
They are associated with the migration of larvae through the lungs or with the development of adult forms of the nematode in the lung parenchyma.
A mild strongyloid invasion most often causes discrete superficial changes in the small intestine.
In intense invasions, the lesions are extensive and deep; they have the character of a diffuse catarrh with ulcerations.
Intensive invasions develop in people who are otherwise debilitated, e.g. due to chronic cancer or during treatment with steroids and immunosuppressive agents that reduce the patient's immunity.
Strongyloidiasis tends to have an irregular course, with periods of remission and exacerbation related to the season or the body's immune status.
A fairly constant symptom accompanying Strongyloides invasion is eosinophilia, sometimes very high (up to 50%), and transient, erythematous skin lesions.
Strongyloides larvae actively penetrate the skin of people walking barefoot or working with bare hands in areas contaminated with human feces.
At the site of penetration of the larvae of the strongyloides (feet, buttocks), skin lesions appear in the form of migratory erythema, itching, disappearing within a few hours or days.
Strongyloidea invasion is sometimes accompanied by changes in the lung parenchyma in the form of bronchopneumonic foci.
They are associated with the migration of larvae through the lungs or with the development of adult forms of the nematode in the lung parenchyma.
A mild strongyloid invasion most often causes discrete superficial changes in the small intestine.
In intense invasions, the lesions are extensive and deep; they have the character of a diffuse catarrh with ulcerations.
Intensive invasions develop in people who are otherwise debilitated, e.g. due to chronic cancer or during treatment with steroids and immunosuppressive agents that reduce the patient's immunity.
Strongyloidiasis tends to have an irregular course, with periods of remission and exacerbation related to the season or the body's immune status.
A fairly constant symptom accompanying Strongyloides invasion is eosinophilia, sometimes very high (up to 50%), and transient, erythematous skin lesions.
Abdominal symptoms are non-specific, similar to those seen in duodenal ulcer or chronic duodenitis and small intestine inflammation, and may include:
epigastric pain
, nausea
, loss of appetite
, diarrhea
, and general malaise
.
Preparation and development of material (applies only to contractors)
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strongyloidiasis, stongyloidosis, strongyloidiasis, parasites.
