Tapeworms in the Brain? Learn how these creepy crawlies make their way into children's brains through everyday veggies like cabbage! Kya aapko pata hai yeh kitna dangerous ho sakta hai? Dekhiye aur jaaniye kaise bachon ko bacha sakte hain! Stay tuned and watch the full episode.
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00:00Welcome to Nazariya ki Nagariya.
00:03Does eating cabbage cause brain worms?
00:08You must have heard people saying,
00:12don't eat cabbage, otherwise you will get worms in your brain.
00:16Why does this happen?
00:17What is the brain worm?
00:19How does it get into your body?
00:21We will talk about all these topics today.
00:24Before that, let me introduce you to a figure.
00:31According to a report,
00:33there is a risk of worms infection in 225 million pre-school and school-age children in India.
00:39In India, about 65% of cases of worms infection related to soil occur in Southeast Asia.
00:46Globally, this figure is 27%.
00:49However, a deworming program is also being run for this.
00:53You must have heard that there are some insects that eat the brain.
00:58Now, if they eat the brain, how do they get into the brain?
01:02How do they look?
01:03This curiosity is often in everyone's mind.
01:05I was reading an article on a news website.
01:08The article was about brain worms.
01:12In 2018, an 8-year-old girl in Gurugram had a sharp headache for 6 months.
01:18Not only that, she also had dizziness.
01:20When I showed it to the doctor, he said that there was a swelling in the brain.
01:23The doctor was giving steroids without thinking.
01:26Due to which the girl's weight was increasing continuously.
01:29There came a time when the girl's weight reached 60 kg.
01:33Now, it is not common to be so heavy at such a young age.
01:37Due to excess weight, the girl was having a lot of trouble walking and breathing.
01:42When the CT scan of the girl's brain was done,
01:45she found about 100 eggs of brain worms in her brain.
01:51Now you must be thinking that how did these eggs get into the brain?
01:55When any brain worm reaches your body through food or drinks,
01:59it goes through the bloodstream from the stomach to your brain.
02:03Where it lays eggs to increase its number.
02:06But this is not the only case.
02:08There are many such cases where brain worms cause epilepsy.
02:13Not only that, in some conditions, the patient also dies.
02:17The main cause of epilepsy in children in the country today is brain worms.
02:22Now, if this brain worm is so dangerous, then how does it happen?
02:26Let's find out.
02:27Brain worms are such parasites that enter our body by eating infected food.
02:35Now, where is this worm found?
02:37Let's find out.
02:38This worm is found in the soil.
02:40So, such vegetables that grow in the soil,
02:42this worm sticks to the surface of such vegetables and their leaves.
02:46If you do not wash such vegetables well,
02:50then the possibility of this worm entering your body increases.
02:53Often, you must have seen some reels on social media,
02:56in which some health experts say that
02:58even by eating cabbage, the brain worm goes into your brain.
03:01The reason behind this is that there are more than one layer in cabbage
03:05in which the brain worm remains stuck,
03:08which you cannot wash well.
03:10And the possibility of the worm entering your body also increases.
03:14But there are some worms, i.e. insects,
03:16that go into your body by eating meat.
03:18There is such a brain worm,
03:20whose name is Tanyasolium.
03:22It is also called Pork Tapworm or Pig Tapworm,
03:25because it is found in the pig.
03:27Often, those who eat pig meat,
03:29the possibility of the brain worm going into them also increases.
03:33Now, you must be thinking that
03:35how does the brain swell up due to the worm?
03:37How does this happen?
03:38Let's find out.
03:39When the worm reaches your brain,
03:41it experiences that an external agent has come,
03:45which is not good for your brain.
03:47When the brain experiences this,
03:49it starts reacting,
03:51which causes swelling in your brain.
03:53Therefore, whenever this worm reaches your brain,
03:56the parasitic infection caused by it
03:59is called Neurocytosciosis, i.e. NCC disease.
04:03From NCC, cysts are formed in our brain,
04:07which affects our neurological system.
04:10This disease causes epilepsy,
04:12which is also called Neurological disease.
04:16If any fruit or vegetable,
04:18meat or water,
04:20is already infected with Pork Tapworm,
04:22and you eat without washing or cooking the meat properly,
04:26then the larva of Tapworm
04:28increases the possibility of it reaching your stomach.
04:31There are many symptoms of brain worm infection.
04:36For example,
04:37Epilepsy
04:38Epilepsy often occurs due to brain worms.
04:41There is fatigue in the brain.
04:43Headache is also very common.
04:45Your mental state becomes very confused.
04:48There is also weakness in the brain.
04:51If we talk about treatment,
04:53brain worms can also be treated with medicines,
04:55which eliminates worms
04:57and also helps in reducing cysts.
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