He often ate raw fish, then a 170 cm tapeworm. came out of his body
He often ate raw fish, then a 170 cm tapeworm. came out of his body

Video: He often ate raw fish, then a 170 cm tapeworm. came out of his body

Video: He often ate raw fish, then a 170 cm tapeworm. came out of his body
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If you eat raw sushi, fish, and salmon almost every day, a rush to the bathroom in the throes of stomach pains can happen.

But that once providentially seated on the toilet bowl, a tapeworm of almost two meters is expelled is certainly not something that happens every day.

Yet, this is exactly what happened to a 30-year-old from Fresno, California, a serial eater of sushi and raw fish, who showed up at the ER with a bag in his hand asking to be examined for a tapeworm problem.

At first the doctor on duty did not give too much importance to the request: after all, tapeworms do not cause particular problems, apart from the understandable disgust.

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But after opening the patient's bag, the doctor had to change his mind: wrapped in a roll of toilet paper there was a disproportionate worm, which once spread on the emergency room floor and measured, was 170 centimeters long: almost 2 meters of tapeworm, which the unsuspecting patient harbored in his intestine.

And the most gruesome thing, as the protagonist of the story told, is that at the time of expulsion the tapeworm was lively and perky.

The TV show "This Won't Hurt A Bit" told the story: the patient, who arrived at the emergency room with severe bloody diarrhea, asked to be treated to get rid once and for all of the "live" worm he said he had also felt wriggling in the belly.

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The remainder of the worm was eventually removed thanks to drug therapy.

In fact, the larvae of Diphyllobothrium, or Japanese tapeworm, can be "hosted" in freshwater fish such as salmon. In reality, however, tapeworms are not exclusive to raw fish, they are also found in marinated or smoked fish and other foods of animal origin.

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