severe headaches

An eight-year-old girl named Trushika was suffering from severe headaches and loose of consciousness, difficulty in breathing, walking since last six months. So, she was diagnosed multiple times but her brain started to swell then she was given steroids. Then she gained a lot of weight from 40-60kgs at this young age.

Finally, doctors went for a CT scan and they found more than 100 tapeworm eggs in her brain which reached her brain through her bloodstream from the stomach. Then she was treated in several ways they reduced her weight, and killed the eggs with some kind of radiation with making harm to any parts of her brain (anthelmintic therapy) then she normally came back to her normal stage both physically and mentally…………………….

Generally, this kind of diseases is infected because of unwashed fruits or uncooked meat which is infected by pork tapeworm. Symptoms are observed only after the growth of eggs or some foreign matter in the brain or any parts of the body, even some people may not experience any symptoms at all.

This tapeworm named Taenia solium affects a lot………….This can be reduced by being highly hygienic, cooking meat properly, eating properly washed fruits…

Taenia solium is the pork tapeworm belonging to cyclophyllid cestodes in the family Taeniidae. it is an intestinal zoonotic parasite found throughout the world and is most prevalent in countries where pork is eaten.