Monday, November 25, 2024

CONCERNED CITIZEN: This is a Liver Fluke - found in a Human Stomach.

Ah, wonderful, a liver fluke.  What, pray tell, is a liver fluke?  A parasite, a worm found in the liver.  

Healthline explains,

A liver fluke is a parasitic worm. You can become infected after eating contaminated raw or undercooked freshwater fish or watercress. Infections are usually treated with a drug called triclabendazole.

After liver flukes have been ingested, they travel from your intestines to your bile ducts in your liver where they then live and grow.

Although most infected individuals don’t show any symptoms, sometimes symptoms arise related to the biliary system. In rare cases, long-term complications can also develop.

Liver fluke infections aren’t common in the United States, but they do occur. Your risk of infection increases if you travel to parts of the world where the parasites are widespread.  

Triclabendazole sound like an antiparasitic like Fenbendazole.  Other parasitics exist.  Garlic, Cayenne Pepper, nicotine. 

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