If you mentioned parasites, would you still think that it just makes people have diarrhea? But don't be careless, because parasites can empty a person's body.
Are parasites really that scary? How can we completely avoid parasites? Next, let's explore the mystery of parasites.
1. 5,000 parasites hidden in the body
A few years ago, there was a news story that attracted widespread public attention, and in the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital, a pediatrician received a patient.
The child's name is "Xiao Xiao" (pseudonym), he has symptoms of low-grade fever and coughing up blood, when Xiao Xiao just had this symptom, his parents took him to the hospital for examination and prescription, but the root of the problem was never found, so even after 6 months of treatment, Xiao Xiao's problem has not been alleviated at all.
Finally, Xiao Xiao and his parents went to the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital, where the doctor first took a film of Xiao Xiao's lungs, and the doctor found that Xiao Xiao's lungs actually had a huge hole.
What the hell is going on? Generally speaking, cough is a lesion in the lungs, with black contrast, but how can there be a cavity, is this congenital or a later formation?
Finding out the cause of the cavity has become a breakthrough in the treatment of Xiao Xiao, but fortunately, the children's doctor is more experienced, and the chief doctor has a bold speculation, that is, there are parasites in Xiao Xiao's body, and it is the worms that have eaten Xiao Xiao's lung tissue.
At first glance, this is really terrifying, but even more terrifying things are still to come, because Xiao Xiao's body, except for the lungs, there are traces of insects in the chest, abdomen, and even the skull.
After a full-body examination, the doctor preliminarily estimated that there were more than 5,000 parasites in Xiao Xiao's body.
Imagine how creepy it is to have more than 5,000 bugs wriggling around your body, but that's not all, because in another county in Hunan Province, there is a 7-year-old boy Yang Yang (pseudonym) who has bugs wriggling in his brain and eating up his brain tissue, causing his brain to have a large blank space.
As a result, Yang Yang had symptoms of headaches, and even because the bugs destroyed some of his neurons, Yang Yang's brain could no longer control his body, and Yang Yang was no longer able to walk.
It's terrible that one small bug after another, when they enter a person's body and gather, can cause such serious consequences.
So how did Yang Yang and Xiao Xiao get infected with so many small bugs? It all starts with a local food.
Second, where are the parasites?
The crabs that were directly recovered from the river were the culprits of Xiao Xiao and Yangyang's parasite infection, and in the bodies of this wild crab, there was a species called "lung fluke", and their "base camp" was on something called "freshwater snails".
Also in the river, from the "freshwater snail" to the crab, and then to the human body, lung flukes are like this, step by step, using the human body as nourishment, and finally eroding human organs.
But do you think parasites only exist in seafood? In distant Tibet, where "the wind blows the grass and sees cattle and sheep", where there are cattle, sheep and horses, there will also be parasites.
Liu Di (pseudonym), a girl who has just been admitted to university, has felt that her body has been a little uncomfortable since her sophomore year of high school, and she went to the hospital for examination, and the doctor suggested that her liver seemed to have some lesions, and it was recommended to do further examination and treatment.
But at that time, in time to catch up with the college entrance examination, Liu Di wanted to go to the big city, so he didn't care, and in the end, when he went to the big city, Liu Di got a very serious disease, hepatic echinococcosis.
When you hear this name, do you think it's a worm in the liver? The answer is not so simple, in Liu Di's liver image, her liver is a large piece black, and the dense black is all parasites, which is almost equivalent to a few pieces of human liver tissue in the base camp of the worm.
Xiao Xiao and Yangyang's disease has not yet developed to such a serious point, so they only need to do some light deworming treatment to drive out the worms in their bodies, but Liu Di is not so lucky.
Generally speaking, in the early stage of hepatic echinococcosis, deworming treatment can also be done, but Liu Di at that time was already in the advanced stage, and her liver was almost completely damaged and could no longer automatically return to normal.
In the end, the doctors could only take an extreme measure, which was to manually strip the liver of the parasites, yes, yes, when Liu Di was pushed into the operating room, the doctors took Liu Di's liver out of her body, manually helped to peel off the parasites, and then put the liver without worms back into Liu Di's body.
This was an unprecedented attempt, but fortunately, everything went smoothly and Liu Di recovered and was discharged from the hospital.
Whether it is Xiao Xiao and Yangyang in Hunan, or Liu Di in Tibet, they are all infected with parasites that threaten their health, are parasites everywhere? Is it really impossible for us to avoid its harm to the human body?
3. Ways to stay away from parasites
Of course not, if you want to completely get rid of parasites, there is only one way, not to eat raw food.
In fact, parasites are very fragile, as soon as they encounter high temperature, they will die on their own, whether it is an adult or an egg, high temperature is their nemesis.
In Yangyang, Xiaoxiao, Hunan, they all love to eat crabs in the river raw, and lung flukes have not been treated at high temperatures, so they have entered their bodies, while Liu Di in Tibet has contracted hepatic echinococcosis due to drinking water with worm eggs.
Of course, in some places, due to air pressure and other problems, the water that seems to have boiled may not reach 100 degrees Celsius and has not completely disposed of the parasites, at this time, it is necessary to use a pressure cooker to restore the air pressure in the pot to normal, boil the drinking water, cook the food, and let the eggs that may exist in them completely die, so that they can be protected from parasites.
This is a daily diet, and in our lives, it is inevitable that there will be people who like some special foods, such as Japan sashimi.
But be clear, these sashimi are made from a variety of seafood that has not been subjected to any heat treatment, and they may look beautiful on the outside, but in fact they may be full of parasites, and every bite in the mouth may be filled with a lot of wriggling parasites.
There are also some plants, such as water chestnuts and water chestnuts, don't think that there are no parasites in the plants, they are everywhere, so even the plants should be treated with sufficient high temperatures, do not covet the deliciousness, and cook them completely before eating.
Epilogue:
All in all, if you want to avoid parasite infection, you must always keep in mind that you should not eat raw food, do not drink raw water, and use a pressure cooker in highland areas to fully treat everything in the entrance at high temperature.