What Does Parasitic Struggle Mean?

Systematic intervention in parasites that have a negative effect on the immune system of animals increases the yield from animals.

Recognition of external parasites, which are frequently seen in animals and can spread rapidly, and knowledge of methods of struggle and protection are of great importance in terms of protecting human and animal health. 

Organisms that settle on the internal organs of the living being or the surface of the body and continue their lives by taking advantage of it are called parasites. Parasites are divided into internal and external. External parasites live on the creature or inside its skin. Some are visible to the eye, while others are not. External parasites that harm animals include various scabies beetles, ticks, blood-sucking flies, lice and fleas. Internal parasites such as sand butterfly, leaf butterfly, usually live in the intestinal tract and stomach.

Recognition of external parasites, which are frequently seen in animals and can spread rapidly, and knowledge of methods of struggle and protection are of great importance in terms of protecting human and animal health.

Parasites harm by consuming the nutrients of the animal on which they live, poisoning the animal with its waste, numerous parasites come together and block the animal's intestine, sometimes clinging to the stomach or intestinal wall and bleeding. As a result of these, symptoms such as severe diarrhea, anemia, thirst, loss of appetite, stagnation, weakness, weight loss, low productivity occur in animals.

Parasites also have a negative effect on the immune system of animals. It breaks the animals' natural resistance to infections, causing them to get sick more easily than usual.

Parasitic diseases can spread rapidly among the animals living on the farm, and a high amount of loss can occur as a result of low productivity, illness and death they cause. Some diseases also threaten the lives of people, being carried by external parasites.