Mr. Lu has been diagnosed with epilepsy for more than half a year. When I was serious, I once fainted in the car, and when I woke up, I found that my tongue had been bitten and my mouth was full of blood.
Not long ago, he fell ill again and was sent to the Department of Neurosurgery of the 900th Hospital of the Joint Logistics Support Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the doctors actually pulled three cysts out of his brain, which helped him completely heal. Doctors speculate that the reason for Mr. Lu's infection with the parasite is estimated to be related to his preference for eating seafood raw.
Sudden headache biting the tongue and diagnosed with epilepsy
Mr. Lu is 48 years old this year, and has been driving trucks in Fuzhou for more than ten years, often driving large trucks around.
In April, he suddenly had violent convulsions in the car and then lost consciousness. It wasn't until an hour later that he was woken up by nearby security guards and found his tongue had been bitten off. "If you get sick while driving, the consequences are unimaginable!"
After the coma occurred in the car, Mr. Lu went to a number of hospitals and was diagnosed with "epilepsy, multiple lesions of the skull", but he could not find the cause and could only take medicine to control.
At the end of last month, Mr. Lu, who returned to Fuzhou to continue working, suddenly felt that his left hand was numb, and he did not even have the strength to move his fingers.
After an hour, he felt dizzy, fell to the ground and his limbs convulsed violently, accompanied by tongue bites, and then lost consciousness.
Colleagues sent Mr. Lu to the nearest hospital, and the results showed that Mr. Lu's right temporal lobe was abnormal, and the local hospital recommended that he be transferred to a large hospital for treatment.
As a result, Mr. Lu was transferred to the 9000 Hospital.
Minimally invasive surgery into the brain, digging out three cysts
Yang Pengfan, chief physician of the Department of Neurosurgery at the 9000 Hospital, found three small hard lumps in his right temporal lobe after giving Mr. Lu a magnetic resonance and electroencephalogram of his brain.
Director Yang Pengfan judged that these three small things should be the cause of his epilepsy. The Neurosurgery Department invited consultations from multiple departments, combined with Mr. Lu's symptoms and medical history, and suspected that these three small hard masses were parasites that entered the brain, died in the brain, and finally formed granulomas.
Under the magnetic resonance navigation, Yang Pengfan's team dug out three small things in Mr. Lu's brain through minimally invasive surgery, each with a diameter of seven or eight millimeters. The results of pathological analysis showed that the three hard masses of cyst worms formed in the brain granulomas.
"Seriously it will cause death!" Yang Pengfan said the 900th Hospital has the largest epilepsy center in East China and has previously treated similar patients.
"Cysticercosis is a disease caused by the parasitism of the larvae of the pork tapeworm on various tissues of the human body such as the brain, eyes, subcutaneous tissues and muscles. If it enters the brain, it can lead to increased intracranial pressure, epilepsy, or mental disorders. The patient's early seizures and later headache symptoms were caused by intracranial mass lesions caused by neurocysticercosis. ”
"Cysticercosis infection is mainly related to unhygienic eating habits, such as raw seafood and meat, eating vegetables, raw water, food that contaminate eggs, etc." Director Yang Pengfan said.
It is understood that Mr. Lu usually loves to eat drunken shrimp, sashimi and other foods.
Director Yang Pengfan reminded that to prevent tapeworm disease, the main thing is not to eat raw meat, and to ensure that cutting boards, kitchen knives and other kitchen utensils should be raw and cooked separately to avoid cross-contamination.