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Unbearable headache lasting more than a week led a 25-year-old woman to Australia in one surprising discovery.
The pain was caused by a caterpillar, a film that had found space in his brain, according to a new case-based study published Sept. 21 in the American Journal. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
The case of the woman, who has never traveled abroad, is first indigenous case in Australia, according to the study. Previous cases in this country have been of migrants or residents who have returned from areas where the disease is endemic, such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.
For the past seven years, the woman has been complaining of headaches. two or three times a year and he left alone with the prescribed treatment. However, the last headache lasted more than a week and was accompanied by other serious symptoms, including blurred central vision.
The magnetic field in the brain led the doctors to conclude that a volume maybe it was the cause of the headache. However, during the extraction process, they discovered that it was actually a cyst filled with tapeworm larvae.
After removing it bladder, the woman did not need any additional treatment.
THE neurocisterosis they are deadly
This condition is known as neurocisterosis, which can cause neurological symptoms when larval cysts develop in the brain.
THE neurocisterosis they are deadly, according to the CDC.
Tapeworms invade the intestine through an infection known as filmingand some of them disappear without treatment.
These parasites are generally transmitted when humans eat raw food (pork is often the direct host for these worms) or come into contact with food, water, and soil contaminated with worm eggs.
The case was similar to that of the Australian woman from a Texas man who suffered from severe headaches for over a decade.
According to experts, the best way to protect yourself from this disease is to cook your food in safe temperatures, wash your hands with soap before eating and eat only foods that you know have been cooked under safe conditions.
A woman in Australia discovered her headaches were caused by tapeworm larvae in her brain, by Alaa Elassar, CNN
