China man turned to the doctor complaining of stomach pains and intolerably itchy skin. Maximum the horror of it turned out that his whole body is teeming with worms inside. Man's life is in serious danger. And the blame for that has been infected with tapeworms eaten a piece of sushi.
The man was a sworn fan of sushi, sashimi especially adored type of sushi, writes the Daily Mail. Sashimi - the most expensive type of sushi, made with green fish or meat. It is because of this, they can cost even more expensive - not only money
but health or even life.
Itching and stomach pain symptoms of having a sushi lover, doctors performed X-ray, and it turned out that not only the gastrointestinal tract, but also throughout the body, the muscles full of parasitic worms.
Doctors alleges that this can happen after eating a larger amount of heat contaminated raw meat or fish. From raw or insufficiently baked fish can be caught many types of parasites.
Sushi lovers now being treated in a hospital in Guangzhou city. According to the doctors treating him, from a patient with a green fish eaten tapeworm eggs hatched adult worms spread throughout the circulatory system. This is called cysticercosis.
Tapeworm infection occurs swallowed diphyllobothrium egg larvae, which are found in freshwater fish, such as salmon. These worms can infect not only untreated, but also pickled and smoked fish.
Although more cases of infection occur in poor countries, and in areas where there are poor sanitary conditions, is increasing in developed countries. The study is a Canadian medical associate with the popularity of sushi.
"This is reinforced by the growing Japanese sushi and sashimi in popularity. But this may be related to other popular dishes made from salted or pickled fish fillets that are popular in the Baltic States and Scandinavia, carpaccio - a popular Italian dish with very thin slices of raw fish, raw salmon and sevices (ceviche) - marinated easily fish "- says study author Nancy Craig.
