6m long worm found in a girl's body

On July 28, Associate Professor Dr. Do Trung Dung, Head of the Department of Parasitology, Central Institute of Malaria - Parasitology - Entomology, said that the test results of the female patient showed tapeworm segments and tapeworm eggs.

Specifically, the doctor diagnosed the patient with a beef tapeworm infection, prescribed medication to treat adult tapeworms, and recovered a 6-meter-long tapeworm after taking laxatives. Dr. Dung said that adult tapeworms are scattered throughout the country, with an infection rate ranging from 0.5 to 12% of the population.

Beef tapeworm is a very common disease that affects health and leaves a feeling of fear. (Illustration photo).

Of these, beef tapeworm infection is the main one (accounting for 70-80%), the remaining 10-20% is infected with pork tapeworm. The length of an adult beef tapeworm is up to 4-12 m, each old segment when shed has about 50,000 tapeworm eggs inside.

Experts recommend that beef tapeworm is a very easy disease to contract, affecting health and leaving a feeling of fear. To prevent the disease, people should not eat raw or rare beef or buffalo meat, and should not eat meat infected with tapeworms; should deworm periodically every 6 months.

Information from the patient said that he had a habit of eating rare beef pho and beef hotpot, occasionally had digestive disorders and discovered foreign objects in his stool.

According to Dr. Dung, the reason why many people are infected with tapeworms is the habit of eating raw food such as beef wrapped in mustard leaves, raw with lemon, rare pho, hot pot... People infected with tapeworms will have symptoms such as digestive disorders, dull, prolonged abdominal pain, and frequent intestinal discomfort and restlessness.

Thu Phuong

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