Eels have parasites. Parasites in eels are mainly nematodes parasitized outside the intestinal tract and echinoderms inside the intestinal tract, but if steamed at high temperatures, these parasites will be killed and can still be eaten without causing harm to the human body.

Parasites in the yellow mountain:

1, Echinoderma

These worms are like fly maggots, and are the most common Echinoderma in the eel body, they parasitize the eel body, and the eel snatch nutrients, and will destroy the eel intestinal tract. In the wild eel, the vast majority of eels have echinoderm parasites, usually less than a few, and even hundreds of eels.

2, nematodes

Thin as silk worm, generally appear in the eel intestinal tract of the latter part of the length of 5 centimeters, the length of the long and even up to 10 centimeters or so, most of the nematodes, will go through the intestinal wall drilling into the eel's other organs, the severity of which will lead to the eel's death of internal hemorrhage.