X-ray image sashimi lovers infected with tapeworms. (Youtube)

 

Guangzhou - This love a Chinese man on the sushi and sashimi almost killed him. Because of that, the whole body filled with tapeworm.

One day, an unnamed man was a doctor. He complained of excruciating pain in his abdomen and itching all over the skin.

Doctors who perform a scan on the patient's body, discovered Events horror: tapeworm meet the men's body after she mostly ate sashimi - Japanese-style food such as sliced ​​raw fish meat.

Doctors believe that patients consumed raw fish has been contaminated. The patient eventually admitted to the Guangzhou No. 8 People's Hospital in Guangdong Province in eastern China.

Numerous studies show that eating fish raw or undercooked can result in a variety of parasitic infections.

Tapeworm infection occurs after the patient swallows Diphyllobothrium larvae, which are found in freshwater fish such as salmon - although that has been marinated or smoked. Salmon born in freshwater, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce.

Cases of tapeworm infection is known to increase in poor areas with poor sanitation. However, the same may be found in developed countries.

Allegedly, an increase of cases in developed countries due to the growing popularity of sushi and sashimi. Writes in the journal Canadian Family Physician.

"Broadening the popularity of Japanese food, sushi and sashimi, contribute to it," said study author Nancy Craig as Liputan6.com quotes from the Daily Mail, Thursday (25/09/2014).

"Another popular food may also be relevant, such as filet (fish) marinated raw - which comes from the Baltic or Scandinavian. Also carpaccio - raw fish or meat is super-thin, usually served in Italy, raw salmon, and the ceviche, marinated or saline that was not too salty. "

Meanwhile, Dr. Yin Hospital of Guangzhou No. 8 in that'smags.com site says that food contaminated with tapeworm eggs which could cause cysticercosis - a condition when the adult worms get into the person's bloodstream.

This type of infection can not be underestimated. Can be life-threatening, if the worms reach the human brain.

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This symptoms!

Tapeworm infection in humans through sushi or sashimi can occur as a result of infected fish is eaten raw worms that are still in the larval stage.

When eating fish tapeworm, which hatch the larvae attaches to the intestinal wall and worms infecting the fish flesh.

Because sushi is not cooked, the larvae can migrate to humans who eat the meat of the contaminated fish.

Once a person is infected, the tapeworm will grow in the intestines - can reach up to 15 meters long in a few weeks. The worms can survive for several years.

Not only stay in the human body, the worms can go undetected for several weeks or even months are able to lay eggs - which would then infect other parts of the human body.

The symptoms of the tapeworm infection include fever, constipation or stomach discomfort. Initially symptoms including mild-to-moderate, so people do not realize there is a serious thing in his body.

If tapeworm larvae began to migrate to other parts of the body, they begin to eat away at the liver, eyes, heart or brain. Can cause death.