Posted on 03/28/2019 5:41:43 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
To learn more about his condition, the medical staff performed an MRI exam and saw damage caused by cysts in his cerebral cortex (the outer mantle of brain tissue) as well as the brain stem, including the cerebellum, which sits at the back of the head above the spinal cord.
The larvae crawl out of the eggs and into muscle and brain tissues, where they form cysts.
Patients with cysticercosis cannot spread their disease to other people; it is only people with a tapeworm infection in the intestine who can spread the potentially life-threatening eggs when proper hygiene is lacking or ignored.
(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...
I read too many things too quickly. Missed the part that mentioned the kid was in or from India. Yes, sanitation standards are predominately poor there.
I read too many things too quickly. Missed the part that mentioned the kid was in or from India. Yes, sanitation standards are predominately poor there.
I read too many things too quickly. Missed the part that mentioned the kid was in or from India. Yes, sanitation standards are predominately poor there.
I know someone who got one of those. Lost 50 lbs in treatment for it.
For the most part, tapeworms/eggs have to be ingested.
Any particular reason you omitted this?
Gossip from far away is less fun than a possible local source.
And the 300-word limit!
Yes, that is the answer.
North Korea fertilizer thread???
Does that sound like one crappy old thread!
Can happen almost anywhere.
NHL Prospect ‘Absolutely Freaking Out’ After 25-Inch Tapeworm Comes Out of His Body
Meyer barely had the energy to make it through his games or practice, and was down to just 170 lbs. But doctors still had no answers after 10 blood tests and checks for mononucleosis and other issues.
Then, after using the bathroom on Feb. 27, “it just came out,” Meyer said. “It” was a 25-inch, orange tapeworm with a head, neck and 50 segments.
Doctors told Meyer that it was diphyllobothrium latum, a type of tapeworm that comes from eating undercooked fish, and based on the size, it had likely been in his body for over a year.
https://people.com/health/nhl-prospect-25-inch-tapeworm/
You may want to cut back on the sashimi...
But when they come to rest rooms inland in Texas they still follow the habit of stuffing stinky paper into the trash can rather than flushing it down.
All of the Buc-ees have signs in their restrooms, in espanol, to flush the soiled TP and NOT to put it in the trash can.
Buc-ees is a chain of HUGE convenience stores, with the best iced tea, bbq, homemade candies, and the cleanest restrooms.
See#28.
Long ago I had a biology instructor, a former US Army Medic that worked with local nationals in Korea and PI.
On slow days he might enliven the class with some of his experiences.
Tapeworm tales were always a class favorite.
One was finding a tapeworm and carefully pulling out twenty plus feet! Being very careful not to break it off!!!!
My friend had one of those
From French cheese
He did like the cheese
I watched a show years ago about a Jewish teenager in Florida who got neurocysticercosis, parasitic infestation from larvae from a pork tapeworm. As the family didn’t eat pork, it was perplexing until it was discovered that he got it from an illegal maid/cook they had from Central America who didn’t wash her hands properly after handling pork.
By that time she left and no one knew where she went.
Poor kid. RIP.
Third world drain pipes are too small in diameter to handle toilet paper. Costs too much to put in a 3” drain pipe. Not a good situation.
You omitted the entire first paragraph,
FARIDABAD, India — An 18-year-old who complained of seizures in the emergency room of an Indian hospital turned out to have parasites in his brain, according to a case study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.”
” I am also glad that I have had my head xray-d in the last year with no result.”
My goodness! I appear to have taken the fork in the road!
Well, actually a CT scan, MRI, and something with another contrast dye. The doctors did not find the really bad result they sought (and I assume did not find evidence of encapsulated parasites!) The minor one was not fun but I am still here to laugh at my mistatements!
(A Humorous “Verbal felicity” as Spooner would say!)
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