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Introduction: Tapeworms
A worm that can infect humans. Although the common perception of tapeworm is a worm living in the digestive system, there are various species that can infect other organs including the digestive tract, muscles, eyes, liver, lungs or brain.
Symptoms of Tapeworms
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Misdiagnosis and Tapeworms
Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria, but can also kill the "good" bacteria in the gut. This leads to "digestive imbalance" where there are too few remaining "good" bacteria in the digestive system. The treatment is typically to use "probiotics", such as by eating yoghurt cultures containing more of the good bacteria. See digestive imbalance and probiotics....read more »
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Types of Tapeworms
- Taenia saginata - beef tapeworm that infects the digestive tract.
- Taenia solium - pork tapeworm
- Echinococcus granulosus - dog tapeworm causing hydatid disease
- Diphyllobothriasis - fish tapeworm
- Alveolar Hydatid Disease
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Definitions of Tapeworms:
A genus of large tapeworms. - (Source - Diseases Database)
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