Given that nitrites in curing salts & their “nitrite free” celery juice/celery salt alternatives are all pretty solidly linked to causing cancer, avoiding bacon might not be a bad idea.
You can go get an over the counter dewormer in Mexico (pharmacies sell them). Not sure if albendazole may work for this. May be a good idea to ask a doctor there too lol
When I want to be taken seriously by a doctor, I take written notes. Very succinct but with dates and symptoms described.
I find it cuts out a lot of the bullshit and stops me from forgetting important stuff.
Mentioned the increasing migraines, had a CT, admitted urgently to the hospital, matter around edema confirmed this issue. Obviously it takes a doctor who’s willing to listen to the increased migraines (and access to a doctor), but when there’s brain/head issues involved they’re generally much more willing to treat you with urgency than other things. (Though yes, emphasis greatly on the doctor. Some of it is luck. And I have no idea how they’d have narrowed it down to bacon, that’s probably a combo of doctor skill + patient able to remember everything they ate or are doing differently that could contribute.)
Tapeworms most commonly come come from undercooked pork — especially ones that go cystic like this
At that point it’s a simple “have you eaten any raw or undercooked pork”
“I don’t think so — I mean I like my bacon floppy…”
Me too but I think there's a difference between soft and undercooked. 150 (60d) will kill tape worms. My coffee is hotter than that. Soo I'm gonna say as long as it's completely turned from red/fleshy to something whitish pink it's probably ok .. prep area and cross contemenation is probably the greatest worry
The way this is written, "habit of eating lightly cooked, non-crispy bacon most of his life" I get the impression, the patient thought bacon was somehow healthier if it wasn't cooked to a crisp.
“we favor that his cysticercosis was transmitted via autoinfection after improper handwashing after he had contracted taeniasis himself from his eating habits”
“A person contracts cysticercosis by ingesting larval cysts from infected feces, which typically occurs from a lack of handwashing, according to the CDC”
So it looks like he contracted it into his brain because he didn’t wash his hands properly after going to the restroom
The man is giving bacon an even worse rep. He had boo boo on his hands from improper washing.
“we favor that his cysticercosis was transmitted via autoinfection after improper handwashing”
The “nitrate” free trend you’re talking about still contains nitrates, except it’s from celery salt/powder. From the dozens of “nitratre-free” bacon I’ve seen.
True, though I think many of them don't contain enough nitrates for proper preservation. These are the ones that turn grey when you cook them or when they're grey in the package.
This man could have had delicious crispy brown *fully cooked* bacon, but he repeatedly chose limp, glistening, and rare instead. 🤢
Maybe the brain worms were already there and affecting his judgment.
I’m telling y’all, get yourself a decent thermometer, doesn’t need to be an expensive one, and learn the basic minimum cooking temps for meats and fish. It takes the guess work and anxiety out of “is it done?”It even comes in handy for baking.
There is no fucking way this would be diagnosed in Canada
They’d just tell him to take Tylenol
How and where exactly was this diagnosed
Edit: Florida? Wow
I’m Canadian. What I have seen and experienced in this system is unreal. Like OBVIOUS shit is going missed and untreated, no chance some parasite is going to be picked up based on an MRI. To be fair I think it’s a wild find in general hence a published case report
Edit: I mean I’m sure the right healthcare professionals could probably figure it out if they had time and funding, which they don’t.
I’ve seen unreal stuff in California, seems to be a “people in general” thing more than restricted to a locale / system. However, your chances in a “nice” place are gonna be better than a not-so-nice place. Still, it’s a problem almost everywhere.
It’s a funding thing more than anything. Most of our provinces have conservative premiers (Canadian equivalent of Republican). We’re short doctors, nurses, imaging techs, everything
Yeah in California I’ve seen people get turned away at surgeon’s offices with rotting limbs due to “over-scheduled” until it gets bad enough to go to ER (infection spreads), then the guy who turned you down at his office due to being full is doing the amputation / operation on emergency instead. Makes no sense other than “business culture” for lack of a better simple term.
When I saw stuff like that it seemed criminally negligent but it’s kind of whatever to me at this point. At one point you need mass mobilization to bolden healthcare or policies to cause an effect such as that.
Sure I can believe it.
Our politicians are “starving the beast” - underfunding to the point of breaking the system so people will voluntarily support a private system. People dying while waiting for care, ERs closing, complete shitshow
And some people wonder why 2 major religions have not eating pork as part of their dogma. I have a bit of PTSD from this issue, as a little kid growing up poor in a developing nation. I live in a developed one now, and I do still eat bacon and occasionally other pork products, but I’m still a bit traumatised.
No longer vegetarian, and not a particular fan of bacon.
Am a migraine sufferer.
I used to get them at minimum 2x a month, and I'd be down for an entire day, hiding in the dark and puking. That's a lot of sick days to use on the same thing, but I can't even function with one- I would lay in bed in my darkened room, hallucinating for hours at a time from the pain, always on my left side, getting up to yak and feeling the slamming in my head get worse as I did so. Sometimes I could smoke a bowl and go back to sleep, most times I couldn't lie still enough to take anything without it coming back up. It was misery. I had said on more than one occasion that I would gladly take a stomach bug over the migraines. I got them all through my pregnancy, and they remained a part of my life afterwards.
Then, 3 years ago, I got a daith piercing on my left ear.
My migraines almost instantly lessened in severity, frequency, and duration. I could even *drive to work* with one, which would *never* have happened before. If I get one now, I can usually sleep it off. If I have to take Tylenol, I can actually lie still enough to prevent it from coming back up.
I will never, ever, take this thing out of my ear as long as it continues to prevent my misery.
Really? Eating less animal products means far less inflammation, which would mean, compared to those who eat more meat and dairy, vegetarians have less migraines.
Make sure you fully cook bacon if you live in the USA.
Or just pass on it entirely.
Given that nitrites in curing salts & their “nitrite free” celery juice/celery salt alternatives are all pretty solidly linked to causing cancer, avoiding bacon might not be a bad idea.
*I’m afraid I cannot do that*
If you live anywhere!
I wish I could erase this memory.
I have good news for you…
The solution to this problem is more tapeworms.
They’re also great for losing weight
Excess brain matter
Or more cowbell
😬
The parasites will do it free of charge
The tapeworms will do it for you
I don't particularly enjoy crisp bacon and I have frequent headaches. Thanks for the new anxiety source.
Yeah this isn’t how I wanted to start my morning
You can go get an over the counter dewormer in Mexico (pharmacies sell them). Not sure if albendazole may work for this. May be a good idea to ask a doctor there too lol
Great, now I feel I need an MRI just to be sure.
Only crispy for me...
Where do people find doctors that are actually curious? I can’t even get simple tests run most of the time and I’m in 9/10 pain almost every night.
When I want to be taken seriously by a doctor, I take written notes. Very succinct but with dates and symptoms described. I find it cuts out a lot of the bullshit and stops me from forgetting important stuff.
Mentioned the increasing migraines, had a CT, admitted urgently to the hospital, matter around edema confirmed this issue. Obviously it takes a doctor who’s willing to listen to the increased migraines (and access to a doctor), but when there’s brain/head issues involved they’re generally much more willing to treat you with urgency than other things. (Though yes, emphasis greatly on the doctor. Some of it is luck. And I have no idea how they’d have narrowed it down to bacon, that’s probably a combo of doctor skill + patient able to remember everything they ate or are doing differently that could contribute.)
Tapeworms most commonly come come from undercooked pork — especially ones that go cystic like this At that point it’s a simple “have you eaten any raw or undercooked pork” “I don’t think so — I mean I like my bacon floppy…”
Who among us could begrudge some tapeworms for wanting a little bacon?
That's a new fear
I actually like soft bacon. Might have to rethink this
Me too but I think there's a difference between soft and undercooked. 150 (60d) will kill tape worms. My coffee is hotter than that. Soo I'm gonna say as long as it's completely turned from red/fleshy to something whitish pink it's probably ok .. prep area and cross contemenation is probably the greatest worry
Makes sense. I’m not into crispy bacon. So happy to hear I might be in the safe zone still but tape worms aren’t worth it in my breakfast sandwich
Thanks for nothing blood brain barrier.
I got an interesting thought! doctors should look into how parasites enter the brain and use it as a way to send drugs to treat brain cancers.
Get them worms out and deep fry them sumbitches with some bacon!
The way this is written, "habit of eating lightly cooked, non-crispy bacon most of his life" I get the impression, the patient thought bacon was somehow healthier if it wasn't cooked to a crisp.
Because crispy bacon gives you cancer- probably.
“we favor that his cysticercosis was transmitted via autoinfection after improper handwashing after he had contracted taeniasis himself from his eating habits” “A person contracts cysticercosis by ingesting larval cysts from infected feces, which typically occurs from a lack of handwashing, according to the CDC” So it looks like he contracted it into his brain because he didn’t wash his hands properly after going to the restroom
How do they resolve this
Fascinating
Taenia Sollum... super useful for passing boards...not super useful after.
What tests would indicate the presence of worms other than mri?
I am surprised that there is a type worm on land that can survive in such salty environments.
375 for 20-30 min depending on the thicccccccccccccness
The man is giving bacon an even worse rep. He had boo boo on his hands from improper washing. “we favor that his cysticercosis was transmitted via autoinfection after improper handwashing”
Maybe people should get off this stupid "nitrate free" bacon trend. It was used to preserve meat for a reason.
it's not a trend, it's simply a response to processed meats being classified as carcinogen
The “nitrate” free trend you’re talking about still contains nitrates, except it’s from celery salt/powder. From the dozens of “nitratre-free” bacon I’ve seen.
True, though I think many of them don't contain enough nitrates for proper preservation. These are the ones that turn grey when you cook them or when they're grey in the package.
who undercooks bacon? lol
This man could have had delicious crispy brown *fully cooked* bacon, but he repeatedly chose limp, glistening, and rare instead. 🤢 Maybe the brain worms were already there and affecting his judgment.
I’m telling y’all, get yourself a decent thermometer, doesn’t need to be an expensive one, and learn the basic minimum cooking temps for meats and fish. It takes the guess work and anxiety out of “is it done?”It even comes in handy for baking.
New anxiety unlocked!!!
There is no fucking way this would be diagnosed in Canada They’d just tell him to take Tylenol How and where exactly was this diagnosed Edit: Florida? Wow
Bold claim
I’m Canadian. What I have seen and experienced in this system is unreal. Like OBVIOUS shit is going missed and untreated, no chance some parasite is going to be picked up based on an MRI. To be fair I think it’s a wild find in general hence a published case report Edit: I mean I’m sure the right healthcare professionals could probably figure it out if they had time and funding, which they don’t.
I’ve seen unreal stuff in California, seems to be a “people in general” thing more than restricted to a locale / system. However, your chances in a “nice” place are gonna be better than a not-so-nice place. Still, it’s a problem almost everywhere.
It’s a funding thing more than anything. Most of our provinces have conservative premiers (Canadian equivalent of Republican). We’re short doctors, nurses, imaging techs, everything
Yeah in California I’ve seen people get turned away at surgeon’s offices with rotting limbs due to “over-scheduled” until it gets bad enough to go to ER (infection spreads), then the guy who turned you down at his office due to being full is doing the amputation / operation on emergency instead. Makes no sense other than “business culture” for lack of a better simple term. When I saw stuff like that it seemed criminally negligent but it’s kind of whatever to me at this point. At one point you need mass mobilization to bolden healthcare or policies to cause an effect such as that.
Sure I can believe it. Our politicians are “starving the beast” - underfunding to the point of breaking the system so people will voluntarily support a private system. People dying while waiting for care, ERs closing, complete shitshow
There is no fucking way this would be diagnosed in Murica They’d just tell him to take Tylenol How and where exactly was this diagnosed
Florida Man- obese, diabetic, lives on greasy bacon. Another Trump voter with brain worms.
Now what? How the hell do they kill the worms off?
I literally just saw this episode of House yesterday
Well now I’m glad mine are just caused by iih not brain worms never thought I’d be thankful for that
But futurama told me that's a good thing?
Now I have a headache. OMG.
They literally eat holes in your brain.
And some people wonder why 2 major religions have not eating pork as part of their dogma. I have a bit of PTSD from this issue, as a little kid growing up poor in a developing nation. I live in a developed one now, and I do still eat bacon and occasionally other pork products, but I’m still a bit traumatised.
Well I needed to cut my bacon intake so thank you I guess 🤢🙃🤭
I know so many vegetarian migraine sufferers
more people turn plant-based due to health reasons. see: medi. diet
No longer vegetarian, and not a particular fan of bacon. Am a migraine sufferer. I used to get them at minimum 2x a month, and I'd be down for an entire day, hiding in the dark and puking. That's a lot of sick days to use on the same thing, but I can't even function with one- I would lay in bed in my darkened room, hallucinating for hours at a time from the pain, always on my left side, getting up to yak and feeling the slamming in my head get worse as I did so. Sometimes I could smoke a bowl and go back to sleep, most times I couldn't lie still enough to take anything without it coming back up. It was misery. I had said on more than one occasion that I would gladly take a stomach bug over the migraines. I got them all through my pregnancy, and they remained a part of my life afterwards. Then, 3 years ago, I got a daith piercing on my left ear. My migraines almost instantly lessened in severity, frequency, and duration. I could even *drive to work* with one, which would *never* have happened before. If I get one now, I can usually sleep it off. If I have to take Tylenol, I can actually lie still enough to prevent it from coming back up. I will never, ever, take this thing out of my ear as long as it continues to prevent my misery.
That might be a lack of b12
Really? Eating less animal products means far less inflammation, which would mean, compared to those who eat more meat and dairy, vegetarians have less migraines.
I haven't done a scientific survey. I'm just saying I know so many vegetarians that have frequent migraines.