Tapeworm Takes Over Sushi Lover’s Body

LadyCPlum · #41 ● 10-01-2014, 12:26 AM

Good thing I don't eat sushi. Getting a shot and taking a trip to the ER just isn't worth the risk to my life

I'm a big fan of the show The Monsters Inside Me, and the number of people who have almost died from picking up parasites after eating raw or undercooked seafood is pretty staggering. And this is why I don't eat seafood (which might actually be considered a crime in Louisiana, what with all the gumbo and crawfish boils...)

kilyurselph · #42 ● 10-01-2014, 03:07 AM

Originally Posted by LadyCPlum ↗

(which might actually be considered a crime in Louisiana, what with all the gumbo and crawfish boils...)

Just curious, but do you mention Louisiana because that's where you live LadyCPlum?

matchstix · #43 ● 10-01-2014, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by kilyurselph ↗

Well, that makes much more sense to me now matchstix, and seriously, I appreciate the response friend. I was thinking that these just can't be tapeworms, tapeworms are long, thin and look a hell of a lot like TAPE! But I was obviously wrong, these are the tapeworm's larva.

However, I still have one question if you care to answer friend? With all those larva crawling, and presumably eating, their way through and all over that guy's body. Could he really have not felt those things burrowing themselves into his muscles? With them moving literally all over his body like that, wouldn't you think he would've noticed something other than just "stomach pain"?

These larvae (which are actually acquired from PORK or contaminated water/vegetables, NOT fish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysticercosis ) are microscopic when they leave the gut, they actually travel through the bloodstream, and when they end up wedged in a capillary that's where they encyst themselves.

Biishya · #44 ● 10-01-2014, 08:56 PM

I've been vegan for almost a year, and I was considering going back starting with fish. Never mind.

XxMutilatedxX · #45 ● 10-01-2014, 09:00 PM

WAHHH

I can feel them just fucking crawling

I love sashimi though

LadyCPlum · #46 ● 10-02-2014, 02:53 AM

Originally Posted by kilyurselph ↗

Just curious, but do you mention Louisiana because that's where you live LadyCPlum?

Yeppers.

LadyCPlum · #47 ● 10-02-2014, 02:53 AM

Originally Posted by XxMutilatedxX ↗

WAHHH

I can feel them just fucking crawling

I love sashimi though

*Vurp* You know on the original Japanese Iron Chef one of the cooks made TURKEY sashimi? Bring on the salmonella poisoning!

ChristySD · #48 ● 10-02-2014, 05:24 PM

Hate to burst everybody's bubble..........BUT, these images are actually from a patient in their 70's that ate raw pork and the images on the radiographs were from the calcified cysts around the larvae. These images have been around for a few years in the medical community. Hope this helps.

LadyCPlum · #49 ● 10-03-2014, 01:27 AM

Originally Posted by ChristySD ↗

Hate to burst everybody's bubble..........BUT, these images are actually from a patient in their 70's that ate raw pork and the images on the radiographs were from the calcified cysts around the larvae. These images have been around for a few years in the medical community. Hope this helps.

Cool, nice to get some background info.

curvature · #50 ● 10-03-2014, 12:05 PM

This was one disturbing x ray.

Tapeworm Takes Over Sushi Lover’s Body

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