A 52-year-old man from Florida, United States, discovered the cause of his severe migraines. His pain was caused by the presence of a worm in his brain that arose from eating undercooked bacon. What could have turned out to be a simple migraine actually turned out to be neurocisticercosi.
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Symptoms
According to the American Journal of Case Reports, the man had to live with this severe pain for 4 months, which started when he ate some undercooked bacon. What you thought might be a simple migraine turned into something more serious: the neurocisticercosia parasitic disease in which the parasite lays eggs that infect various regions of the body, including the brain.
The treatment
The treatment that was used to act on this disease was the antiparasitic drug albendazole which showed improvements after two weeks.
This incident teaches us that we need to pay close attention to cooking food correctly but above all never underestimate symptoms that may not appear to be as serious as a migraine but which in reality could hide something even more insidious.
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