Little Kinh (4 years old) living in Shenzhen City, China, for some reason, recently, Ms. Liu discovered that the belly and chest of a boy protruding like a pregnant woman. But Tieu Luu thought that her child was so full and new.
However, the situation of Little Kinh is not good, plus a prolonged high fever. Small Business often cries, I feel short of breath, pain, stiffness in the abdomen. Ms. Luu quickly took her child to the hospital for examination.
In the hospital, after the CT scan, doctors said: "The CT scan results showed that the abdomen and chest area of the patient had 2 large cysts. Especially the large-sized chest cysts had pinched the lungs. on the right, in the cysts containing millions of fluke endangers your baby's life '
After investigating the cause, the doctors were told that half of Grandma's grandmother had been living in Xinjiang for half a year. At that time, it was the hot spot that was executing the outbreak of dog tapeworm. Typically, dog tapeworm disease progresses slowly, incubation period of 1 year or more. After that, she returned home and had regular contact with her nephew, making him sick
Signs and symptoms of dog tapeworm infection?
When a person infected with tapeworm dogs may not show symptoms for 10 or 20 years. This is due to slow growth of the cysts.
Symptoms of the disease may include:
- Abdominal pain, chest tightness accompanied by prolonged cough. When the disease is worse with fever, need reduction, jaundice, bloody bowel movements .
- In addition, depending on the situation of each specific patient with different manifestations, parents should pay great attention.