Source: Healthy Hangzhou, Hangzhou Red Cross Hospital
"Autumn winds, crab feet itch, September full navel October tip." Autumn has passed, and eating crab is a good time. Steamed crab, spicy crab, crab powder dumplings, curry crabs, all kinds of eating methods are delicious, but can not be eaten raw!
But Zhejiang's Sister Hu (pseudonym) heard hearsay that she thought that eating raw crab was a big supplement and that she had eaten herself in the hospital...
The 46-year-old Sister Hu has been feeling unwell since the beginning of August, has been coughing, and her appetite has deteriorated, so she went to the hospital for a gastroscopy and did not find any digestive tract diseases.
After a month, Sister Hu began to have symptoms of chest tightness, and she always felt that she could not breathe. After going to the hospital to check the CT, the doctor found that there was a lot of gas and fluid in her chest cavity, which was so pressed that her lungs could not be opened, it may be tuberculosis, and it needs to be treated immediately! Sister Hu and her family became nervous and felt seriously ill, and came to the Tuberculosis Surgery Department (Thoracic Surgery) of Hangzhou Red Cross Hospital for treatment.
Figure | a large amount of fluid in the chest cavity of Sister Hu
After being admitted to the hospital, Sister Hu underwent a left thoracentesis and drainage, and during the drainage, a large amount of purulent fluid flowed out of her chest tube.
Figure | a large amount of purulent fluid flowing out of Sister Hu's chest tube
After the test results came out, the doctor found that all the indicators of Hu Dajie did not show that she had tuberculosis infection or tumors. An abnormal indicator in the blood routine caught the attention of doctors: eosinophils 8.8 * 10^9/L, which is 29.3 times higher than the upper limit of the reference, which suggests that Sister Hu may have allergies or parasitic infections!
In view of the fact that Sister Hu did not have allergic rashes, skin itching, and no fever. The doctor speculated that it might be a parasitic infection, and he asked Sister Hu: "Do you usually like raw food and drink raw water?" Sister Hu said no. Dr. Zhong asked: "Not necessarily recently, have you had the experience of eating raw food in the previous months?" ”
Sister Hu suddenly recalled that she told the doctor: In March this year, she had lumbar spine surgery, and in the process of recuperating at home, someone told her a "folk remedy" - eating crab raw can strengthen bones.
Sister Hu hoped that her lumbar spine would recover as soon as possible, so she quickly bought more than 30 river crabs, mashed them and soaked them in rice wine, removed the foam and ate them all raw. At that time, her son reminded her: "Don't eat like this, what if you have a problem eating!" But Sister Hu insisted on eating, and the result was really a "problem" ate.
At this point, Sister Hu's symptoms are "right", and the doctor analyzes: the effusion in her chest cavity is because the parasite infects the pleura, producing an inflammatory response, and the inflammation oozes lead to the effusion.
After The parasitic examination of Hu Dajie's blood, the test results were shocking: liver flukes, lung flukes, Toxoplasma gondii, echinococcosis, split-headed larvae, and pig cysticercosis antibodies in the blood were all positive, and the parasites that could be detected by the hospital alone were infected with nearly ten species.
Sister Hu regretted that she had only had the experience of eating crab raw half a year ago, which made her suffer so much!
Doctors explain: Parasites are very common in life, and both humans and animals may be its ultimate hosts. Some parasites "hide" in the middle host (such as crabs, snails, etc.), enter the human body through the mouth, rupture in the digestive tract, and the larvae come out and pass through the intestinal wall into the abdominal cavity, and even through the diaphragm into the chest cavity and lungs, resulting in chest infection and the formation of abscess effusion. Some parasites will also develop into adult worms in the human body, parasitizing a variety of tissues and organs, such as the brain, spinal cord, gastrointestinal tract, abdominal cavity and subcutaneous tissue, etc., producing corresponding symptoms, and in severe cases, it will cause irreversible sequelae.
Doctors recommend that everyone develop good living habits and stay away from parasitic infections:
★ Do not drink raw water or eat raw food.
★ Wash your hands with running water and soap before and after meals.
★ Seafood, river freshness, and meat must be cooked thoroughly to eat, especially crabs and shrimp in mountains and rivers cannot be eaten raw, because mountains and rivers are the breeding sources of various parasites.
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