Doctors recently warned about the bizarre case of a woman – who took tapeworm egg pills off the internet as a quick fix to lose weight, but ended up with devastating illness and side effects.

Experts say the parasites can make a home in your intestine when their eggs are inadvertently ingested through undercooked meat products, some of which can grow up to 30 feet long, when the host eats the food after it has been chewed. Which reduces weight.

Even though this bizarre practice of eating tapeworm eggs for weight loss dates back to the Victorian era, it is unclear how often this method was commonly used.

Woman buys capsules filled with tapeworm eggs

US-based oncologist Dr. Bernard Hsu, reporting the case study on his YouTube channel, said that a 21-year-old Iowa-based man purchased capsules filled with tapeworm eggs using cryptocurrency. Dr. Hsu, referred to as Tei, said she was struggling to lose weight with diet and exercise, and then she discovered the controversial method on the dark web.

“TE was curious. A ‘forbidden’ method must be so good and so powerful, that it is a true secret that needs to be known,” Sue said. She initially took two tapeworm pills and got the results she wanted, although within a week she started having stomach cramps and bloating. However, since she was happy with the weight loss, the woman dismissed her symptoms.

After a strange bathroom incident she made a shocking discovery

However, according to Dr. Hsu, he began to worry after a shocking incident that happened in the bathroom. “She thought she felt something fluttering and tapping around her cheeks as she sat down,” he said. “When she was about to flush, she looked back and saw that some brown, rectangular pieces were floating in the bowl and falling out of the mass.”

However, within a few days, she started experiencing more symptoms such as an unusual lump under her chin, fainting, intense headache and cranial pressure, in addition to severe stomach pain.

When this became unbearable, he got himself tested for a bacterial infection, which came back negative – but with a few more symptoms. “She had periodic periods where she would wake up suddenly in the middle of the day and not remember anything from the previous few hours,” Dr. Hsu said.

Doctors found multiple lesions in his brain and other parts of his body, including his tongue and liver. After this he revealed his dangerous diet. The doctors treating him found that TE had ingested two species of parasite – taenia saginata And Taenia Solium – Due to which eggs were released into his bloodstream which caused infection. He was then given medicine to treat the problem.

How dangerous are tapeworms?

According to experts, when a tapeworm grows in your intestine, it starts eating your body’s nutrients and grows by reproducing from proglottids – the chain-like looking bodies of the tapeworm.

One of the biggest dangers you face from a tapeworm is that you can’t control where it attaches itself – such as causing serious damage to other organs or tissues outside your digestive system. This causes unpleasant symptoms, such as:

• Diarrhea
• severe stomach pain
• nausea
• weakness
• Fever
• bacterial infections
• neurological issues

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