What are the main symptoms of the pulmonary and of the intestinal phases of the ascaris infestation?
In the pulmonary stage the ascaris infestation causes cough, hemoptysis, dyspnea, fever, fatigue and may cause a special kind of pneumonia known as eosinophilic pneumonia. In the intestinal phase the symptoms are because of spoliation of nutrients of the host and thus hunger and weight loss might be appear. Masses of ascaris inside the bowels can cause severe intestinal obstruction.