Medical history (history of illness) represents an important component in the diagnosis of helminthiasis (worm disease).
Family history
- What is the general health of your relatives?
Social history
- What is your profession?
- Do you frequently travel abroad? If so, where exactly?
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- Are you experiencing pain? If yes, when does the pain occur?
- Where is the pain localized?
- Do you suffer from changes in the gastrointestinal tract such as nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain or similar?
- Do you suffer from respiratory symptoms such as cough, bronchitis or similar?
- Have you noticed any other symptoms (eg itching)?
- Since when do these changes exist?
Vegetative anamnesis including nutritional anamnesis.
- Have you lost body weight unintentionally?
- What is your diet like? Do you eat a lot of raw food?
- Do you eat the following foods more often:
- Fertilized vegetables / salad
- Raw/insufficiently salted or smoked fish
- Raw/insufficiently cooked snails, crabs or shrimp.
- Raw/insufficiently cooked fish
- Aquatic plants such as watercress
- Aquatic plants such as water nut, cress consumed raw or insufficiently cooked.
- Raw crab meat, insufficiently cooked crabs.
- Insufficiently cooked freshwater fish
- Raw/insufficiently heated meat (beef, pork).
- Cereals, cornflakes, etc.
Self-history incl. medication history
- Pre-existing conditions
- Operations
- Vaccination status
- Allergies
- Medication history
