For foodies, the motto of life is probably "live until you are old and eat until you are old". Nothing makes you happier than eating, eating and eating. However, some foods may look delicious, but they hide huge health risks, such as parasites hidden in the food.

Previously, a netizen posted on Weibo about his horrific experience of accidentally eating apple snails during his honeymoon, which caused parasites to invade his brain.

During nearly half a year of hospitalization, she underwent six lumbar punctures, drank nearly 300 bottles of water, and took more than a dozen boxes of deworming medicine before she recovered.

In fact, the apple snail itself is not terrible, but the parasites that use it as a host are terrible! One apple snail can harbor 6,000 parasites! People can be infected by eating raw or incompletely heated apple snails. Infection, it lives in a person's central nervous system.

Initial symptoms include headache, dizziness, fever, stiff neck, facial nerve paralysis, etc. As the larvae grow and reproduce, they will further cause meningitis, spinal corditis, encephalitis or myelitis, and in severe cases It can cause dementia and even death!

Coincidentally, in recent years, there have been many people infected with parasites due to improper eating.

Foods with parasites are far more than just snails. The foods you often eat actually have hidden dangers! These 6 types of foods are most likely to harbor parasites!

Nowadays, many young people are keen on going to Japanese restaurants to eat sashimi.

This is actually raw fish fillet dipped in fresh soy sauce and wasabi before eating. Many people believe that sashimi is a deep-sea fish, so there is no risk of parasite infection. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. Many parasites are halophilic, and acanthognathostomiasis and anisakiasis are typical representatives.

Many people naively believe that if sashimi is mixed with sauce and vinegar, the parasites in it will be killed, and they can eat it with confidence.

But in fact, it is difficult to kill them with ordinary condiments, such as soy sauce, vinegar, mustard, alcohol, garlic paste, etc. Even if the fish fillets are put into 90 degrees Celsius hot water, the cooking time is not enough. Kill it.

In addition, shrimps and crabs are prone to parasitic paragonimiasis metacercariae.

If you eat undercooked shrimps and crabs, paragonimiasis will enter the human body and parasitize in the lungs. It will not only cause coughing and hemoptysis, but also invade the brain and other organs, causing more serious diseases. as a result of.

The crayfish we often eat actually contains such parasites.

Eating bloody pork steaks can easily ingest tapeworm eggs from pigs and cows into the body. When tapeworm eggs enter the human intestine, they will develop into adult worms, adsorb to the intestinal wall, and continuously produce new proglottids, which can be More than ten feet long.

If you think that the host of parasites is limited to animals, you are wrong.

The vector of infection by a parasite called Fasciolopsis ginger is mainly the roots and stems of aquatic plants, such as water chestnuts, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, wild rice and lotus roots.

It is recommended not to eat water chestnuts, water chestnuts, lotus roots and other aquatic plants raw. Even if you want to eat them raw, do not chew the skin with your teeth. You must wash it thoroughly and scald it with boiling water for a few minutes or dry it in the sun for a day. Eat again.

On a hot day, a few cans of cold beer paired with a plate of stir-fried frogs is great.

However, all 14 species of frogs in China can be infected with the spargan tapeworm, and its larvae are hidden in the muscles of the frogs, especially the leg meat.

Toxoplasma gondii may also be found in fat sheep and cattle

Therefore, we remind everyone that all kinds of meat products should be cooked when making hot pot. Wait until the chicken and fish turn white, and the pork The beef and mutton turn completely light brown, and the shrimps and crabs turn orange-red. Make sure the shrimps and crabs in the shell are cooked before eating!

Here comes the important point, how to avoid "worms entering through the mouth"?

The most effective way is to cook fish, shrimp, crab, frog, snake, snail, pork, beef, etc.

before eating! Cook before eating! Cook Eat it when it's cooked!

Say the important things three times. Apart from this, there is no other 100% prevention method.