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100 tapeworm eggs found in 8-year-old girl's brain

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Nimrat Kaur
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100 tapeworm eggs found in 8-year-old girl's brain
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100 tapeworm eggs found in 8-year-old girl's brain In a shocking case, doctors at a private hospital in New Delhi found some 100 tapeworm eggs in the brain of an eight-year-old girl from Gurgaon. The girl had been suffering from severe headaches and epileptic seizures for the past six months. Initially, she was diagnosed with neurocysticercosis (multiple cysts in the brain), a preventable parasitic infection of the central nervous system caused by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium. As a result of so many cysts, her brain swelled and she was put on steroids, which resulted in weight gain of some 20 kilos. She had also breathlessness and difficulty walking. Later, a CT scan revealed that the 100 cysts were in fact tapeworms that reached her brain through the bloodstream from the stomach. “Her brain scan showed more than a 100 white dots, formed due to tapeworm eggs. Such an infection is caused by accidentally eating foods infested by tapeworms. When eggs reach the brain through the nervous system they cause neurocysticercosis, which is characterised by a severe headache, epileptic seizures and confusion," said Dr Praveen Gupta, director of the Fortis Hospital’s neurology department said. -PTC News-
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