the tapeworm

The tapewormThe tapeworm

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Hello we are Sandra, Carlota, Gema and Jose Antonio and we are going to

expose a presentation based on the tapeworm.

The tapewormThe tapeworm

The tapeworm is a parasite that lives in the small intestine of humans, which usually measures three to four mether, reaching the ten.

Places in the world where the tapeworm exist

It is widespread in America 1 , Asia 2 and East Africa. 3

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Causes

It is caused due to meat or raw fish or undercooked.

Also by contact with infected persons.

Symptoms

Symptoms include being very thin despite eating a lot, removal of pieces of tapeworm which is how to reproduce, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, trouble sleeping, etc...

Preventions

1) Avoid eating beef or pork raw or undercooked. 2) Wash hands after handling meat or pork. Also

wash hands after defecation. 3) The evacuation of a sick patient with

tapeworms should be removed carefully, they are contagious to humans or animals.

4) Those who harbor the parasite must be treated immediately.

Treatment

The medication only attacks the adult tapeworm and not its eggs, so hygiene is very important.

It is possible to re-infect yourself while you are being treated. For example, you could pass tapeworm eggs into your faeces

and then transfer them to your mouth with contaminated hands. Wash your hands thoroughly before eating and after using the toilet. Other members of your family or household should do the same. Can be cured with some home methods:

Pumpkin seeds, bracken fern, tincture of wormwood (a bottle of alcohol with 10 leaves of wormwood)

eat for a day with lots of garlic and onion and pumpkin seeds.

Excersises

1. Tell me a way to prevent tapeworms.

2. What is the tapeworm?

3. Tell me a symptom of tapeworm.

4. Tell me one of the causes that do produce

tapeworm.

ExcersisesExcersises5. True or false?

-It is widespread in Asia, America and Portugal. - The evacuation of a sick patient with tapeworms don't

should be removed carefully, they aren't contagious to humans or animals.

6. Tell me what is it each sentence: a prevention, a treatment, a cause or a sympton.

tincture of wormwood : raw fish

abdominal pain: Wash hands after handling meat or pork.

Crossword

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1. Place where live the tapeworm. 2. Parasite that lives in the small intestine of humans. 3. Continent where the tapeworm exist. 4. The fish or the meat doesn't must be 5. The has beneficial properties.6. Way of prevention. .7. Symptom.

We hope that you have liked our presentation.

The secretariesCarlota and Sandra

The speakerGema

Jose Antonio

GoodbyeGoodbye

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