When I was a young kid, maybe fourteen, I saw a story on television where this guy was a world traveler. He was concerned about getting Montezuma's revenge when traveling in Central and South America so he took a tapeworm. He did this intentionally as a means to fight off getting sick. Well, according to the story, it worked. He traveled all over for as long as he wanted and never got sick because of this worm he ingested. When he was done traveling, he did whatever people do to get rid of a tape worm and went on his way, safe and sound.
Perfect, I thought, if I'm ever in that situation I'll just go ahead and do the same thing and I'll be safe. Good thing I was watching and learned about that. Besides, everybody knows that if it's on TV, it has to be true, right?
The fact of the matter is that right now, you can go to websites on the Internet and using the magic of online payment processing, pony up over a thousand dollars and have these little parasites shipped to your door for consumption for the purposes of weight loss. A person would eat the larva and become infected in their intestinal track. Once inside the digestive tract, a tapeworm begins to grow and can get very large and quit long.
Tapeworms are also known to lay more eggs once inside humans and the eggs can hatch and move through internal body tissue and end up in the lungs, eyes, and brains, just to name a few locations. Cysticercosis is a disease where humans have tapeworms that have developed in their bodies.
The most common tapeworms found in humans are the beef tapeworm, pork tapeworm, fish tapeworm and the dwarf tapeworm. Infections of the beef and pork tapeworms are also called taeniasis.
Beef tapeworms are evidently the type used for weight loss and they get the name from showing up in undercooked beef meat.
Pork tapeworms are typically ingested in the egg stage by pigs and hatch once inside the pigs stomach, where they then move into the pigs muscles and we eat the under cooked meat in pork chops, ham, bacon, etcetera, and the tapeworms move into our own muscles, bloodstream, eyes and brains.
More research on the web will reveal a TV show on Spike, called "1000 Ways to Die".
I was watching recently and believe it or not, there was a gal featured who sent away for a tapeworm from South America so she could take it to lose weight and she ended up, well, not doing so well. She lost the weight and the worms laid more eggs and they spread through out her body and she passed away.
I suppose the jury is split on this one, an interesting fact IS that a full 25% of all human beings are believed to be infected with parasites of one kind or another, including whip worms which attach themselves to in intestinal wall and feed off of there human host.
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