What diseases do cockroaches carry?

Cockroaches cause negative emotions in some people, while others do not pay attention to them, coexisting peacefully nearby. Insects spoil products, various objects, leave excrement behind themselves. The worst thing is that they are carriers of disease. With severe infection of the premises with insects of this species, they can cause serious diseases such as tuberculosis or meningitis. Most people do not even realize that pest diseases are dangerous to humans.

What diseases do cockroaches carry?

Carriers of infections before infiltrate an apartment, spend part of their lives in sewage and sewer pipes, basements, in attics. In these places there are corpses of various animals, garbage. As a result, on the chitinous shells of the pests are: fungi, pathogenic microbes, helminth eggs and other harmful and dangerous microbes. Insect excrement, chemistry, human waste containing pathogenic microorganisms enter insects through food. Cockroaches carry them around the house, they fall on food, clothing, furniture.

On a note!

Products that an infected insect has run through, consumed by humans, can cause severe poisoning.

Scientists have conducted numerous studies. According to their results, it was found that on their bodies, cockroaches carry diseases that can infect people. These include:

• lichen;
• diphtheria;
• polio;
• leprosy;
• salmonellosis;
• dysentery;
• tetanus and other diseases dangerous to humans.

These infections during research were found in the body of red and black individuals living in apartments, educational and preschool institutions

Allergic reaction in humans to cockroaches

The danger of cockroaches to humans is also in the fact that they cause him an allergy. The remains of chitinous shells remain in the house after their death. They mix with dust, penetrate the human body, irritate the mucous membrane, causing an allergic reaction in adults and children. The manifestation of such diseases from cockroaches as dermatitis, rhinitis, bronchial asthma is possible. If a person begins to sneeze, a runny nose appears, the body itches, wounds appear on it, a sore throat is observed, redness and tearing on the eyelids - such symptoms indicate an allergy.

The reaction manifests itself in different ways and depends on how exactly the person came into contact with the pest. At bite or direct contact, a person experiences:

• itching
• in some places there are redness;
• abrasions appear, edema is observed.

On a note!

A large number of black cockroaches an unpleasant odor is distributed in the room, which can cause an allergic reaction in a person.

Nausea, vomiting, and heaviness in the abdomen indicate that man accidentally ate a cockroach or products of his vital activity got into his body. From pests need immediately get rid. For people prone to allergies, there is a chance of anaphylactic shock or Quincke's edema. Children may develop blattophobia - a fear of cockroaches.This is a mental illness, the treatment of which requires specialist intervention.

How do people get infected?

Cockroaches easily penetrate apartments - through ventilation grates, cracks with clothes, bags, suitcases. Ways of spreading diseases occur through dishes, surfaces that are not properly processed, and kitchen towels. Running everywhere, cockroaches everywhere leave their marks. Water is vital for them, and if they can’t find it, they are able to crawl through the person in search of it, gnaw the skin around their lips and eyelashes. At night can crawl into your ear, nose, causing swelling. It’s hard to get them on your own, so you need the help of a doctor.

Being a lover of food waste, red cockroach runs several kilometers on various types of garbage, excrement. As a result, an infection accumulates on his abdomen and legs, including eggs of dangerous parasites, which then turn out to be on surfaces found in the house, dishes, children's toys, furniture and other property. During the movement of insects, the eggs collected on their paws and abdomen fall away, so you can get helminths from cockroaches:

• roundworms;
• lentetsami;
• pinworms;
• whipworms and other parasites.

On a note!

Cockroaches are not carriers of a disease such as rabies, so pets cannot get infected. Rats are contagious for them, and therefore, all the diseases they suffer from are transmitted to cockroaches.

Preventive measures

Cockroaches are far from harmless creatures, they easily cause material harm to humans and are dangerous to their health. Preventive measures must be followed. Carefully close the products, do not leave faucets open, wipe regularly all surfaces, remove garbage from the house in a timely manner.