cysticercosis
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Search complete. 3 mentions across 2 episodes found for "cysticercosis".
Sep 26, 2026
A Man Ate Undercooked Pork, This Is What Doctors Found Inside His Brain
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3:19BrewHOST
Symptoms didn't fade, so he returned to the hospital for an MRI, at which point they found more of those fun little speckles all over his brain.
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3:26BrewHOST
Those little white dots are cysts.
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3:28BrewHOST
a condition known as neurocysticercosis when they cover brain tissue.
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3:32BrewHOST
Cysts are little bags of tissue filled with air, liquid, or other substances.
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3:36BrewHOST
The doctors gave out anti-inflammatory and anti-seizure medications for our first two cases, but sadly our victim died in the hospital two weeks later.
Ep 91: Helminth (Parasitic Worm) Infections in Children
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16:50Christopher BassettHOST
Tinnitus, which is an adult tapeworm in the gut, you get that from eating infected pork tissue, causes mild symptoms, not a big deal at all.
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17:00Christopher BassettHOST
Cysticercosis is a tissue infection with cysts from eating eggs, and we'll go through that.
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17:06Christopher BassettHOST
Not very common, but we do see some of it along the US-Mexico border.
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17:10Christopher BassettHOST
In the worst regions, about a quarter of pigs do show tapeworm cysts.
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18:22Christopher BassettHOST
But other than that, they're not going to cause, other than some nutritional deficiencies, they won't cause a big problem.
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18:27Christopher BassettHOST
But the diagnosis should be by looking at the scoliosis hematopoietic like they are on the top left.
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18:33Christopher BassettHOST
Cysticercosis, as we said, can cause a self-infection.
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18:38Christopher BassettHOST
The big thing that you might see about this is someone comes from this country with new onset seizure.