“Night life” often eat barbecue alert brain growth cysticercus

At night, in the crowded stalls called a plate of golden spicy barbecue skewers, drink a glass of beer is part of many people’s “night life”, Miss Zhang is such a barbecue “enthusiast” one, especially the roadside stalls on the kind of charcoal grilled meat skewers, can be said to be her favorite. It can be said to be her favorite. Recently, Zhang team often headaches, dizziness, and even fainted at work when serious. To the hospital, the doctor suspected that she had problems in the brain and recommended that she do a head MRI. The examination showed that Miss Zhang’s brain is littered with dozens of small circular lesions of varying sizes, the so-called cysticercosis lesions, new, medium-term, and dead, some also cause edema of the surrounding brain tissue. These are the culprits that caused Miss Zhang’s head discomfort. How did the small cysticercus enter Miss Zhang’s body and reach the brain? Doctor’s analysis, this is closely related to Miss Zhang love to eat barbecue. Because the meat is often unevenly heated during the grilling process, such as grilling time is too fast or not frequently turned, resulting in raw meat is not cooked through. If the grilled meat is not qualified, which contains cysticercus, it will enter the body through the mouth and with the blood into the human brain, thus suffering from cerebral cysticercosis. In fact, it is not uncommon for people to suffer from cysticercosis by eating barbecue. Experts warn that from the health point of view, barbecue or eat less, even if the favorite barbecue, but also to ask the barbecue chef to grill the meat through some.