Woman contracted parasites after eating barbecue. The recurring "urticaria" caused Ms. Wang from Hangzhou to suffer for several months.

Finally, the doctor discovered that the cause of these symptoms was caused by parasites from eating barbecue.

Miss Wang, 23, is an English teacher at a foreign language education institution in Hangzhou.

In early May this year, Ms. Wang began to develop red spots and wheals on her upper chest and neck, and she felt a little itchy.

I couldn't stand it for two days, so I went to the hospital. The doctor diagnosed Ms. Wang with urticaria and prescribed some hormones and anti-allergic drugs for Ms. Wang to use.

However, there was no improvement after using the medicine. Instead, the symptoms became more serious. After that, Ms. Wang visited multiple hospitals and saw 7 outpatient clinics in one day. Each time, she was diagnosed and treated as allergic skin disease, but there was no treatment at all.

As a result, the area of ??"urticaria" is getting larger and larger, covering the whole body.

On July 18, Ms. Wang suffered from pain in the right upper abdomen and was accompanied by fever. She went to Hangzhou First People's Hospital for examination. She was considered to have allergic skin disease, so she asked a dermatologist for consultation.

Shen Bin, chief physician of the Dermatology Department of a hospital in Hangzhou, highly suspected a parasitic infection after careful examination and immediately contacted the Hangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The serum test showed positive for liver fluke antibodies.

Ms. Wang was finally diagnosed with liver fluke disease.

After asking about Ms. Wang's medical history, I learned that in April, Ms. Wang went to barbecue outdoors twice with her friends.

Shen Bin said that liver fluke disease, also known as clonorchiasis, is a parasitic disease of humans and animals, mainly caused by hepatobiliary lesions, caused by Clonorchis sinensis parasitizing in the biliary tract.

Liver fluke is an intestinal parasite. In addition to damaging the liver and gallbladder, it can also cause various complex complications in multiple systems throughout the body, and can develop into gallstones and cholangiocarcinoma.

The doctor speculated that Ms. Wang may have eaten half-cooked meat while having a barbecue, and the parasites also took advantage of this to "enter" the body.

What foods are likely to breed parasites?

Crayfish - Paragonimiasis Crayfish can be found everywhere in rivers and lakes in the south. There are also many in paddy fields, creeks and dirty water. Because of their strong reproductive capacity, they are very easy to catch.

In recent years, spicy crayfish has become popular all over the country, and restaurants specializing in lobster have even opened in some places.

However, due to the poor living water quality of crayfish, paragonimiasis is often parasitic in crayfish.

If people eat crayfish raw or half-cooked, they are very likely to be infected with this parasite, which can cause paragonimiasis.

Paragonimus mainly parasitizes the human lungs. In mild cases, it may manifest as cough, chest pain, and hemoptysis. In severe cases, it may cause massive bleeding in the lungs, block organs, and lead to death.

Three Beijingers were poisoned after eating crayfish and suffered from "acute skeletal myolysis", which was almost life-threatening.

Experts remind: Remove the tendons from the back of the lobster before eating. It must be cooked thoroughly when cooking. It is best not to eat the head of the crayfish.

Sashimi - deboned fish with liver fluke disease, cut into thin slices, dipped in mustard and eaten raw, delicious.

Coated with a layer of flour and fried, it's both crispy and tender.

While enjoying such delicacies, the evil may have been planted in the stomach.

Because liver flukes are often parasitic in these freshwater fish, such as wheat ear fish and stick fish.

The average parasite infection rate of freshwater fish in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places is as high as 60%.

Liver flukes mainly live in the human liver and bile ducts and damage the human liver. Patients often feel liver pain, abdominal distension, and abdominal discomfort. Abnormal liver function can be detected during examination.

Snails - Angiostrongylus cantonensis larvae develop in certain terrestrial or aquatic snails for a long time.

In order to be greedy for fresh food, some people just boil it in boiling water and eat it immediately. If people eat raw or undercooked snail meat, they may be infected with Angiostrongylus.

Once infected with Angiostrongylus, it will swim in the human body and burrow into the brain. The lesions are concentrated in brain tissue, including the cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal cord in addition to the brain and meninges.

In mild cases, clinical symptoms include headache, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting; in severe cases, shock, mania, and even death may occur.

Patients develop eosinophilic meningoencephalitis, or meningitis, characterized by a marked increase in eosinophils in the cerebrospinal fluid.

Water chestnut - Ginger Fasciol Disease Autumn is the time to pick water chestnuts and water chestnuts. They are so fresh and tender right after they are picked that you can’t help but eat them in your mouth.

At this time, it is very likely to be infected with Fascia ginger, which lives on water chestnuts and water chestnuts.

Fasciolopsis is parasitic in the human small intestine and can cause digestive tract and systemic symptoms, such as abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, etc. In severe cases, anemia, edema, and developmental disorders can occur.

Experts remind: Try not to eat water chestnuts, water chestnuts, and lotus roots raw, and do not chew the skin with your teeth.

When eating raw, be sure to wash it thoroughly, scald it in boiling water for a few minutes, or dry it in the sun for a day before eating it.