Video: Tapeworm Parasites Lived In Woman's Brain For 8 Months

By R. Siva Kumar - 22 Sep '15 09:18AM

She bore with severe headaches as well as a loss of vision for months on end, before she finally decided to see a doctor.

Yadira Rostro from Garland, Texas, had complained for a long time.

"Sometimes my sight was impaired... I could not see properly," she told NBC Charlotte.

When she was examined by doctors, the 31-year-old understood that sacs of larvae from eight tapeworm eggs had been growing in her brain. Doctors felt that she had been infected when she ate food that had been infected with fecal matter that contained a tapeworm or an egg while she was vacationing in Mexico a couple of years ago.

It was the common manner in which tapeworms transferred between hosts. Usually, the tapeworm goes through people's system, but in Yadira's case, it worked its way through her bloodstream and into her brain, causing the release of a collection of fluid that led to the headaches.

Surgery at the Methodist Dallas Medical Center earlier this month helped to remove the parasites, reported The Independent.

Neurosurgeon Dr Richard Meyrat, who worked on the operation, described the invaders: "They looked a little bit like eggs, and they had a clear sac. And inside it, a small tapeworm."

Finally, Rostro is recovering and is glad that she is just alive!

She declared: "I'm very grateful to God that I'm in his hands," she said, according to hngn.