Mother daughter fed tapeworms sake of beauty contest

A resident of Florida so wanted her daughter lost weight for the contest of beauty that fed her tapeworms. The girl was taken to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain.

Beauty contest

Nurse front desk a hospital in Florida maricar Cabral Osorio proceeded to inspect delivered to her the girl who complained of severe abdominal pain. Initially Osorio suggested that she was pregnant, but an ultrasound did not He has confirmed. The cause of pain has been set later, when the patient started vomiting. The toilet nurse Osorio to his horror saw a lot tapeworms .

Tapeworms

Later, doctors found that the vain girl's mother went to Mexico, where he bought the larvae of worms, which are then She fed her child. "This mother then came to me to apologize - says the nurse. - You know, said, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I made only to the daughter became a little leaner. Her I needed help of this kind, because it has to take part in beauty contest ".

Meanwhile tapeworms   actively settled in my stomach unhappy, and some have already reached a very decent length, so that the physicians had to work hard to extract them out. It should be noted that the practice of weight loss   by these parasites It has more than 100 years. The doctors never tire of warning that this technique extremely dangerous to health, and to use it in any case impossible, but people still make their own way.

Absorption of tapeworms fraught with a lot of serious complications, including death. These parasites attach themselves to the intestinal wall and absorb nutrients. Some worms reach a length of 6 meters - they can live up to 20 years. (READ MORE)

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