CHINA, Nov 21, TEN Network | Note:- If creepy crawlies and micro monsters give you the heebie-jeebies, it’s best you turn away from this story.
Medical tests and surgeries can sometimes reveal scary results. From scans revealing 33 solid objects inside a man stomach to a surgeon pulling out a live worm from a patient’s eye, doctors have to deal with a lot of bizarre things inside clinics and hospitals.
This new case from China’s Zhejiang province is no different. In fact, it sounds something right out of a horror or sci-fi film.
Recently, a man was taken to a hospital in the Zheijiang province after he had complained of persistent headaches and seizures. He had been living in pain for over a month. Dr Wang Jian-rong from the department of infectious diseases did a medical check of the patient and found out he had taeniasis, a parasitic disease due to infection with tapeworms.
But when a thorough scan of his major organs was done, the results shocked the entire medical staff of the hospital. Scans revealed the man had as many as 700 tapeworms in his brain, chest, and lungs.
The doctor blamed the condition on a hotpot pork meal the man had eaten almost a month before his check-up. He added the worms had already caused damage to the patient’s organs. “There are multiple presences of space-occupying lesions in the patient’s brain. It’s also in the lungs and fills up the muscles inside the chest cavity,” said Dr Wang.
World Health Organisation says tapeworms are introduced to the human body by eating tapeworm eggs that are usually present in pork that has not been cooked properly. The eggs can get into the central nervous system and cause neurological disorders like headaches and seizures. But according to the National Healthcare System (NHS), the condition occurs only when a certain of tapeworm egg is swallowed.
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Dr Wang said the pork meal eaten by the man was not cooked properly and tapeworm eggs were alive when it was ingested. “If you have had the uncooked meat, there’s a chance that the tapeworms can travel through the body and inflict different diseases,” he said. (TN)
