It was then the woman admitted she had eaten uncooked salmon two hours before her symptoms began
Long, white and wriggling – this is the moment scores of worms are removed from a woman’s stomach.
The 36-year-old came to the hospital in Nanao, Japan, with chest pain, nausea, and vomiting. After examining her, doctors found her abdomen was tender to touch.
It was then the woman admitted she had eaten uncooked salmon two hours before her symptoms began, said medics describing the case in the New England Journal of Medicine. Scans revealed her stomach wall had thickened and doctors decided to put a camera down her throat to take a look.
They discovered wriggling white worm larvae burrowing into the walls of her oesophagus and stomach. Using forceps, they began the grisly process of removing the larvae – which were of the Anisakis simplex species – and filmed the endeavour.
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