Situation and vulnerability
Cysticercosis can affect a person who does not eat pork if it ingests eggs through faecoral contamination. The consequences depend in particular on the organs affected.
Signs and limits of their interpretation
Teniasis can give little digestive evidence. Neurocysticercosis may occur through seizures, headaches or visual disturbances, sometimes after a long silent period.
Diagnosis and monitoring
Convulsive crisis should be evaluated quickly. The distinction between intestinal worm and tissue cysts is essential for organizing examinations and treatment.
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Prevention and care
Meat cooking, hand hygiene and sanitation work at different stages of the cycle. Neurocysticercosis requires specialized care: destroying cysts can cause inflammation.
Practical issues
Does eating uncooked pork directly give a cysticercosis?
Pork containing larvae transmits teniasis to T. solium. Cysticercosis comes from ingestion of its eggs: both situations and their treatments must be distinguished.
Preparing for an exchange with a professional
- Residence places and food exhibitions
- Crises, headache and visual disorders
- Previous imaging and pest treatments
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Related fact sheets
These sheets share ways or contexts of exhibition in our catalogue. This reconciliation does not establish a differential diagnosis.
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- Amebiasis
- Fascioliasis
- Giardiasis
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