Doctors Remove Ribbon Worm Pigs 1.8 Meters of Mouth Men's
Doctors in India issued a pork tapeworm length of the intestines of humans recently. Parasites are known by the scientific name, Taenia solium.
Pork tapeworm is released from the gut of a man. (Live Science)
Dr. Cyriac Philips, a liver specialist at PVS Memorial Hospital in India who handled the case, said it was the longest he had ever seen worms.
According to a short report published January 25 in The New England Journal of Medicine, 48-year-old man told the doctors that he had a stomach ache for two months before asking for medical treatment.
In a statement quoted by Live Science, Friday (01/27/2017), Philips said doctors do a colonoscopy and found the worm bumpy parts in the large intestine pasen.
"In patients with tapeworms, doctors usually find parasites in the intestinal segment," said Philips.
Furthermore, doctors perform endoscopy. They insert the camera into the human stomach and upper small intestine, to explore the top of the human digestive system.
"They were surprised to find no worms curled at the top of the small intestine that man," said Philips.
"The doctors then removing the worm pulled through the mouth of the man. Tapeworm intact along 1.88 meters was taken," said the report mentioned.
"All the procedures including endoscopy and parasites spending took about an hour and 15 minutes. He was sedated during the procedure," said Philips.
According to the National Library of Medicine (NLM), tapeworms can grow to more than 3.5 meters and live for years in a person's gut.
"Because tapeworms usually causes no symptoms, people may be unaware that they are infected. In some cases, tapeworms can cause abdominal pain," writes NLM.
According to the report, after tapeworm removed, he was given anti-parasitic drugs to kill the rest. A month after the process, were declared free of infection.
In October, doctors in New York reported seeing an increase in different types of tapeworm infection is.
It usually occurs when a person digest the eggs of the pork tapeworm. These eggs can form cysts throughout the body, including the brain.
The lead author of the report, Dr. Amy Spallone, who works at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York told Live Science that infection in this case is not understood yet in all US states.
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