Beware of parasites when eating raw food

Yu Kang, Professor, Department of Clinical Nutrition, Peking Union Medical College Hospital

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Aquatic plants or plants growing near puddles, such as Houttuynia cordata and water chestnuts, may carry worm eggs.

In addition to Fasciola giganticum, beware of the following parasites in your daily life

Pork - Pork Tapeworm

In Quzhou, Zhejiang, a man had dizziness, headache, limb convulsions, foaming at the mouth and other symptoms when he ate undercooked meat while eating hot pot

Water chestnuts - ginger worms

A 27-year-old woman in Hangzhou had abdominal pain for more than 2 years.

Fasciola chinensis mainly uses aquatic plants such as water chestnut, water chestnut, and water chestnut as the transmission medium.

Drunk shrimp, drunk crab - paragonimiasis

In Zhejiang, a man had repeated symptoms of fever, abdominal pain, cough, and diarrhea after eating raw crabs.

Freshwater crabs and prawns may contain paragonimiasis.

Human infection can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, blood in the stool and other symptoms, parasitic on the brain can form multiple cysts in the brain, resulting in severe headache, epilepsy, paralysis, vision loss, aphasia and other symptoms

Sashimi - liver flukes

In Guangzhou, a woman went to the hospital because of abdominal pain and was found to be infected with liver flukes, which was caused by eating raw fish

Liver flukes can be parasitic in freshwater snails, freshwater fish and shrimp

To prevent parasitic infection, pay attention to separating raw and cooked chopping boards when cooking, and do not eat raw food that may carry parasites

"China Food News" (05 edition on April 15, 2022)

(Editor in charge: Yuan Guofeng)