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A 20 cm long parasite may have lived in the brain of Xiao Ting (a pseudonym), a girl of 12 years old, for four years! The day before yesterday morning, she had an operation in Binjiang Campus of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang Medical University. The worm was still crawling when it was taken out.
Shen Hong, director of neurosurgery in Binjiang Campus of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang Medical University, said that Xiao Ting was infected with sparganosis mansoni. After six hours of operation, he recovered well and is expected to be discharged next week.
Xu Weimin, director of the Institute of Endemic Parasitic Diseases of Hangzhou CDC, said that wild snakes and frogs are seriously infected with parasites, so they must be cooked before eating. Swimming in unclean rivers in summer may also cause sparganosis mansoni.
12-year-old girl got a strange disease, which turned out to be a parasite in her brain.
Xiao Ting, 12 years old, lives in the countryside of Haiyan county.
Speaking of her illness, it dates back to four years ago. At that time, she was 8 years old, just went to primary school and came home from school. She often tells her grandparents that she has a bad headache.
Xiao Ting is usually in good health, so at first, his family didn't take it to heart, thinking that it was because he was too tired to go to school. Until one day, Xiao Ting screamed again because of his headache, and his expression looked so painful that tears came down. The family realized the seriousness of the problem and quickly took her to the hospital.
Looking around, I can't find the reason.
Later, Xiao Ting had repeated headaches, sometimes accompanied by convulsions, which occurred regularly.
Half a month ago, I had another headache and finally fainted to the ground. The family panicked and took her to Hangzhou for inspection overnight. The doctor suspected that it was caused by viral encephalitis, and suggested to go to the provincial CDC for serum antibody testing.
Last week, Xiao Ting's test results came out, and his blood was positive for "sparganum mansoni". Schizophrenia mansoni is the larva of taenia diego. The staff of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention preliminarily judged that this kind of schizophrenia may be the chief culprit of Xiao Ting's illness. It is suggested that Xiao Ting go to the hospital for targeted examination to find the location of the lesion.
You have a bug in your head? Hearing this, the family was frightened and took Xiao Ting to the Second Hospital of Zhejiang Medical University for magnetic vibration. Sure enough, a mass of 1 cm ×2 cm was found in the right frontal lobe of her brain, which was about the size of a red date.
A 20-cm-long bug coiled around the brain like a belt.
After the chief physician Shen Hong, the director of neurosurgery in Binjiang Hospital of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang Medical University, learned about Xiao Ting's medical history in detail, Director Shen judged that the parasite was probably hidden in the tumor.
The day before yesterday morning, Dr. Shen Hong operated on Xiao Ting himself. The edema around the lesion is severe, and the area is near the right frontal lobe of the brain. It is a module that controls human thinking and emotional functions. Once there is any mistake in the operation, it may lead to irreparable losses, so the doctors involved in the operation are very cautious. The operation lasted for six hours.
Shi Jian, the deputy chief physician who participated in the operation, said that when the worm was found, it was a milky white strip coiled there. When it was pulled out with tweezers, it turned out to be a 20-cm-long sparganum mansoni, still alive and wriggling slightly on the plate. When Xiao Ting's mother saw the bug, she burst into tears.
Maybe I got it when I was playing in a paddy field when I was a child.
How did such a long bug get into Xiao Ting's head?
The doctor repeatedly asked Xiao Ting's mother and grandfather if the children had eaten uncooked snakes or frogs. Or did the wound touch the skin of these animals?
Mom and grandpa said there should be no memory.
Grandpa said that it is possible: Xiao Ting lived in the countryside until he went to primary school, and often played in rice fields in summer. Perhaps it was at that time that the disease entered his mouth and the schizophrenic Mansoni took the opportunity to enter his body.
Shi Jian, deputy chief physician, said that sparganosis mansoni can reach any part of the human body through blood circulation, and can absorb nutrients from the human body under the skin, eyes or brain, thus causing harm to the human body.
"There are few cases of human infection with sparganosis mansoni, especially those parasitic in the brain." Shi Jian, deputy chief physician, said that this was the first time he had encountered a case like Xiao Ting in recent years.