Chinese man suffering from tummy ache is found to have 6.2m tapeworm growing inside him - after years of gorging on raw beef
The 38-year-old patient told medics in Shiyan, China he had been vomiting and losing weight at an alarming speed
A Chinese man who visited his doctor after suffering from severe tummy ache was found to have a giant tapeworm growing inside his stomach - after years of gorging on raw beef.
He told them he had endured “abdominal pain and chronic anaemia” over the previous two years.
Doctors described their initial physical examination of him as “largely unremarkable” - but they found a tapeworm’s egg in his stools.
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Dr Jian Li, leading the study for Hubei University of Medicine, wrote: “The tapeworm attaches to the small intestine and can grow to be several metres in length. Humans are the only definitive hosts.”
The man has since made a full recovery - presumably following a change of diet.
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Dr Li wrote: “At a follow-up visit three months later, the patient was asymptomatic, with recovery of appetite and weight.”
