05252013Headline:

Father a hero to live five to swallow a frog abdominal pain, memory loss

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Reporter Ge Dandi correspondent Rong Bin

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wild frogs, the parasites of a wild frog in vivo up to fifty-six ten, if swallowed, is very susceptible to parasites, cause abdominal pain, fever, and even blindness, paralysis.

Last week, a Hospital of Zhejiang Medical Department of Infectious Diseases, deputy director of Leung Wai Fung, director of physician met a live swallow a frog, leading to memory loss, chest pain, low grade fever patients.

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Mo, aged 42, Hunan, in Dongyang work for many years. Speaking of the reasons he live to swallow a frog, Liangzhu Ren said, “To be honest, and his son.”

10 months before the day, Mr. Mo to rest at home, when I heard the cries of his son, ran over to her son. A look at the original son of the sink side of the thumb-sized frogs started crying. He immediately picked up his son to coax him, but how to coax coax kept.

At this time, he with one hand and from the frog said to her son, the frog is nothing to fear, they will not bite, see dad eat it. “Then he put the frog into mouth, and swallowed. Seeing this, the son crying immediately stopped.

about 5 months later, Mr. Mo sudden pain right side of the chest, immediately to the local hospital to do the anti-inflammatory treatment improved. Since then, he is always time to time there will be abdominal pain, memory began to fall, but because it is not very serious, Ren Ren passed, he did not mind.

Until a month ago, he suddenly reappears right side abdominal pain, accompanied by a low-grade fever 37.5 ° C, again to a local hospital. After examination of pleural fluid ferritin more than 2000ng/ml normal men in 80-130ng/ml 80% of eosinophils, and pleurisy with effusion, local doctors said he may be suffering from parasitic infections.

a clear diagnosis, two weeks ago, he came to Zhejiang Medical hospital epidemiology treatment. Outpatient visits parasite antibody: mansoni the sparganosis antibodies, Gnathostoma nematode antibody positive diagnosis of parasitic infections.

He then hospitalized for Sparganum mansoni infection. Liangzhu Ren recalled, when Mr. Mo vital signs were stable, but the spirit of the poor, emaciated, no effort.

hey how Sparganum mansoni infection? Careful history taking, Mr. Mo Speaking live to swallow the frog thing 10 months ago. Liangzhu Ren said that the “culprit” is the frog.

Sparganum mansoni larvae of Spirometra mansoni, mainly parasitic in the frog, the snake’s body. Eat a frog, it will enter the human body, and walk in the body, can cause eye, brain, subcutaneous and oral parts of the human sparganosis, abdominal pain, fever and other symptoms, severe cases can cause blindness, paralysis of limbs .

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, Hangzhou, CDC endemic parasitic disease control director Xu Wei-min, had, Hangzhou, 11 district and county (city), snakes and bullfrogs parasites done monitoring survey found that, wild frog sparganosis infection rate of 31.15%, the intensity of infection 1-60.

why Mr. Mo 5 months after onset? Liangzhu Ren said: “This mansoni the sparganosis’s activities related to the human body will ‘walk’, ‘walk’ where there will be corresponding symptoms. Conversely, if it has been fixed, the physical discomfort

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Mr. Mo is not Liangzhu Ren met first Sparganum mansoni infected patients, outpatient, some people to swallow the frog is to the governance problems, some people like to eat a frog dish.

Liangzhu Ren stressed that he had never seen a live swallow a frog can cure the literature and reports.