Beware of ascariasis “disease from the mouth”

Three Kingdoms period, the miracle-working doctor Hua Tuo doctor for the people often go to the public. On one occasion, Hua Tuo was carrying a medicine bag on the market come to a village to find that a middle-aged man squatting on the ground, both hands and lower abdomen, cheeky-like pain. Hua Tuo to open medicine bag, took out a small packet of drugs, fell to the bowl of water-oriented open and allow patients to drink. Soon, we saw that the patient Gongzhao Yao, Chazhao legs, “Wah-Wah” to spit a lot of two sharp-foot-long worms to, not residence coiled creeping, counted, there are more than 20. Tuwan the patient’s abdominal pain immediately after the disappeared. He was extremely grateful to Hua Tuo, and asked what he was suffering from illness, Hua Tuo told him: “You have the disease known as ascariasis.”

 Filed ascariasis, often we only think of abdominal pain, in fact, a lot of the performance of ascariasis. China had one cases of death of girls diagnosed with sepsis, autopsy results show that the girl died of ascariasis. She has three died of liver roundworm, right heart there is a live roundworm. Roundworm’s right atrium through the tricuspid valve head-end, up to the right ventricle pulmonary artery, the tail still in the right atrium. Lungs are also a roundworm, pulmonary embolism in around 2. Ascariasis was misdiagnosed a lot of cases, there was a girl diagnosed as Japanese encephalitis death, while the actual is the brain ascariasis. Of course, ascariasis of the most common symptoms are abdominal pain, this is because dwelling in the intestine caused by Ascaris.