However, the next day after eating, when you go to the toilet again, when you look back, you will find that the feces are full of crawling bugs. This kind of worm is called "Ascaris". The Baota candy we ate at that time was not a snack, but a sugar-coated "insect repellent" for treating Ascaris. Strangely, have you noticed that in the past ten years, it seems that Baota sugar has been less and less seen, and even the "ascariasis" that everyone used to have is almost gone now.
My uncle is a township doctor with 20 years of medical experience. He told me that there are fewer and fewer people suffering from ascariasis in the past ten years. The main reasons are as follows.
First, the living conditions in rural areas are better, and there are fewer ways to spread eggs. The rural environment is basically a great change in 10 years. The rural environment in the 1980s was relatively backward. Although it is much better than the 1960s, it still lags far behind the present.
Because of the limited conditions, it is more troublesome for everyone to drink hot water directly, and it takes fire to boil water, so when they are busy, everyone drinks raw water directly. At the same time, at that time, everyone planted land and vegetables with manure as raw fertilizer, including toilets at that time, and they also made their own dry toilets, and all the flies went in. Children often play with mud, go to wild places to play, and put their hands into their mouths when they get dirty. These are the direct intake routes of ascaris eggs.
Nowadays, in the countryside, every household has a small building, and the countryside is also a clean and tidy cement floor. Dry toilets have long since disappeared, replaced by their own independent toilets.
People no longer use manure as fertilizer for farmland. Even if you want to see cow dung and pig dung in the village, it is more difficult, because no one wants to raise cattle anymore, and pig farmers also have environmental requirements and must stay away from inhabited places. Children play with mud in the field instead of playing with mobile phones and computers at home. At worst, you can play some fitness equipment in the village center. Therefore, the improvement of living conditions directly reduces the occurrence of ascariasis from the source.
Second, eating habits have changed, and illness has entered the mouth. As mentioned above, it is not common to drink raw water often now. Drinking fountains and kettles are very convenient household appliances, and you can drink hot water in a few minutes.
In addition, many previous dishes were eaten directly without washing. Dishes that can't be finished may be put directly on the table, with nothing covered, and then taken out in a few days. Now most people have refrigerators at home and know how to cover them with plastic wrap to ensure the health of food.
Third, the improvement of health awareness can be reflected in children and the elderly. Primary school students go to school, and the school basically conducts health care education every semester. If the child is uncomfortable, he will tell his family directly.
Old people take care of their children, knowing that they are uncomfortable, and they will not let them support them again, saying that it is good to sleep, or using some indigenous methods to treat diseases. Instead, take the child directly to the health center and other medical institutions for a check-up. Even if the old man is uncomfortable, he knows to go to the hospital for examination at the first time. So there are fewer and fewer people suffering from ascariasis.
Summary With the improvement of living conditions and the progress of medical technology, the ascariasis that once troubled our generation has gradually disappeared. However, in daily life, we should maintain personal hygiene, pay attention to washing hands before and after meals, and remember to have a check-up in time if there is any discomfort.