A Man Ate Undercooked Pork, This Is What Doctors Found Inside His Brain

Take a look at this image of a nice, healthy human brain, and compare it to this one.

More like, what made those homes, eh? A study done in the New England Journal of Medicine by Nishanth Dev, MD, chronicling the story of an 18-year-old man who arrived at the hospital with tonic-clonic seizures.

Tonic seizures are when your muscles contract or stiffen violently, and clonic seizures are when one or more muscles twitch repeatedly.

Tonic-clonic seizures are, as you can probably guess, a combination of both.

The man also complained of pain in his right groin for about a week prior.

When he was examined by doctors, he appeared confused and had major swelling over his right eye.

Medical staff then performed an MRI on his head and found this.

Another report from the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University tells the tale of a 46-year-old construction worker, nicknamed Chu by the Chinese researchers to protect his identity, who arrived suffering seizures and headaches.

He was taken to the hospital after his co-workers found him collapsed on the job during a seizure, and told medical staff that each night for about a month he had been experiencing seizures as if he had epilepsy.

Doctors quickly ordered up a CT scan, where they found multiple intracranial calcifications, calcium buildup in brain tissue, and lesions on the inside of his skull.

Chu, not wanting to spend any more money, declined further medical care and returned home.

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.

Those little white dots are cysts.

a condition known as neurocysticercosis when they cover brain tissue.

Cysts are little bags of tissue filled with air, liquid, or other substances.

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.

Chou, however, pulled through after the removal of the cysts and pressure reduction from within his skull.

Rachel Palma of Middletown, New York was experiencing hallucinations, involuntary movements, and found herself suddenly not understanding the concepts of time and space.

She says that she was no longer able to process the fact that a key opens the door.

The computer screen looked completely different.

It was almost foreign.

She went to and from the emergency room at least ten times, but medical staff couldn't figure out what was wrong with her.

Eventually, Palma's GP noticed a lesion on her left frontal lobe and directed her to a neurosurgeon by the name of Dr. Jonathan Rasulli.

She arrived at his office for a biopsy of the lesion, fully expecting a diagnosis of brain cancer.

She says, I was told that it was most likely a malignant tumor which would require radiation and chemo even after the surgery.

Take a look at this image of a nice, healthy human brain, and compare it to this one.

More like, what made those homes, eh? A study done in the New England Journal of Medicine by Nishanth Dev, MD, chronicling the story of an 18-year-old man who arrived at the hospital with tonic-clonic seizures.

Tonic seizures are when your muscles contract or stiffen violently, and clonic seizures are when one or more muscles twitch repeatedly.

Tonic-clonic seizures are, as you can probably guess, a combination of both.

The man also complained of pain in his right groin for about a week prior.

When he was examined by doctors, he appeared confused and had major swelling over his right eye.

Medical staff then performed an MRI on his head and found this.

Another report from the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University tells the tale of a 46-year-old construction worker, nicknamed Chu by the Chinese researchers to protect his identity, who arrived suffering seizures and headaches.

He was taken to the hospital after his co-workers found him collapsed on the job during a seizure, and told medical staff that each night for about a month he had been experiencing seizures as if he had epilepsy.

Doctors quickly ordered up a CT scan, where they found multiple intracranial calcifications, calcium buildup in brain tissue, and lesions on the inside of his skull.

Chu, not wanting to spend any more money, declined further medical care and returned home.

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.

Those little white dots are cysts.

a condition known as neurocysticercosis when they cover brain tissue.

Cysts are little bags of tissue filled with air, liquid, or other substances.

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.

Chou, however, pulled through after the removal of the cysts and pressure reduction from within his skull.

Rachel Palma of Middletown, New York was experiencing hallucinations, involuntary movements, and found herself suddenly not understanding the concepts of time and space.

She says that she was no longer able to process the fact that a key opens the door.

The computer screen looked completely different.

It was almost foreign.

She went to and from the emergency room at least ten times, but medical staff couldn't figure out what was wrong with her.

Eventually, Palma's GP noticed a lesion on her left frontal lobe and directed her to a neurosurgeon by the name of Dr. Jonathan Rasulli.

She arrived at his office for a biopsy of the lesion, fully expecting a diagnosis of brain cancer.

She says, I was told that it was most likely a malignant tumor which would require radiation and chemo even after the surgery.