Summary:
more-inAn eight-year-old girl’s parents were shocked when they came to know that their daughter’s brain was infested by tapeworm eggs. Gradually the cysts (tapeworm eggs) were treated with anti-parasitic drugs. “People often do not know but tapeworm infestation of the brain is fairly common. Her CT scan showed the presence of more than 100 cysts in the brain which, in fact, were tapeworm eggs, that reached her brain through the bloodstream from the stomach. She had so much swelling in the brain that she needed prolonged steroids which led to weight gain..