The brain "chit" white spots, serious damage

Doctor Hoang Anh, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the People's Hospital of People's Hospital, Kunming, Yunnan, China, said: “Male patients come to the hospital for a state of severe headache.I have prescribed patients with CT scan and conducted some necessary tests.The CT scan results showed that the patient's brain was seriously damaged, in the brain there were many white spots, suspected to be tapeworm.The stool test identifies patients infected with pig tapeworm. ”

Immediately, doctors conducted a consultation and decided to have laparoscopic surgery to remove the tapeworm in the brain and reduce the intracranial pressure to save the patient's life.At the same time, the patient is also treated with medical treatment with tapeworm kills in combination with anti -inflammatory drugs, anti -epilepsy and antibiotics.After treatment, the patient's health gradually recovered.

The mistake of eating pork increases the risk of tapeworm infection

According to Dr. Hoang Anh, tapeworms often have to parasitize in the intestines of animals (pigs, cows, fish, ...) to survive and infect humans through oral.Depending on the type of intermediate host (cow, pig, fish ...), the parasitic tapeworms will have different names such as: Pork flukes, cow flukes, tapeworms ...

“With pig tapeworms, the disease is often infected when we eat pork containing unprocessed tapeworms, the tapeworm cysts into the human body will bloom, develop into adult pig tapeworms and parasitesIn his small intestine.

Tapeworms will have many burning, old burning parts at the end of the flukes will often fall out and located in the digestive tract of patients.If the patient has problems with intestinal peristalsis disorders, burning flukes can be pushed back into the stomach, broken and releasing tapeworm eggs in the stomach, tapeworm eggs are absorbed into the bloodstream, according to the circulatory cycle awayGo to different organs such as brain, heart, liver, lungs, ... and then form larvae.Tapeworm larvae parasitic in different organs can seriously affect health, even death, ”said Dr. Hoang Anh.

Doctor Hoang Anh said in the case of the patient mentioned above,Patients have a habit of eating fried pork, not cooked well.It is likely that the patient bought tapeworm meat, then only stir -fried and eaten, so he was infected with a pig tapeworm.

Manifestations of parasitic pig tapeworms in the brain

Pig parasitic pig tapeworm cysts are very dangerous cases, causing many clinical symptoms.Depending on the location, the number of larvae cysts in the brain, the patient will have manifestations such as:

- Perfect headache.

- Increased intracranial pressure.

- Epilepsy, convulsions.

- Memory impairment.

- Mental disorders.

- Incretion of eosinophilia in cerebrospinal fluid can lead to death or serious complications.

- Suddenly or paralysis due to pinched nerve.

Prevention of pig tapeworm infection

Doctor Hoang Anh recommends to prevent pig tapeworm infection, people should note the following:

- Perform clean living environment.

- Use clean water in daily activities, especially when cooking.

- Perform cooking and drinking, ensuring food hygiene and safety when cooking.

- Absolutely do not eat pork, products from pork have not been well cooked.