Chinese woman has tapeworm removed from her breast 5 years after eating live frogs
Surgeon finds 13cm parasite in fatty lump cut from patient who suffered years of pain after swallowing amphibians
A Chinese woman who ate five live frogs in the hope it would relieve the rheumatism in her legs instead suffered years of pain and nurtured a massive tapeworm in one of her breasts, according to a local news website report.
The horror story began in 2013, when the woman, from Jiaqing in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, was advised by an advocate of folk medicine that consuming uncooked amphibians worked as an analgesic for aching limbs, Kankanews.com reported on Monday.
The prescription, however, proved specious, and instead of getting relief, the woman, who was not named, found herself in more discomfort than before.
In the years that followed she experienced all manner of aches and pains in her stomach, breasts and eyes, although she had no idea what caused them, the report said.
It was only when she noticed a lump in her right breast and went to see her doctor about it that the true cause of her pain, quite literally, came out.