Tapeworms in food
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I just read a cringe worthy article about a man whose entire body was infested with tapeworms, after eating large amounts of sashimi in China.
I've seen enough gifs and Youtube videos of squirming parasites in sushi to know that you've really got to be careful where you order sushi from, and to inspect your food before you eat it as well as you can. But BLEH. I absolutely did not believe the photos (of X-Rays), until I found out that they indeed can show up on X-Rays, especially if they are causing lesions within the body.
I'm surprised he wasn't severely malnourished from the volume of tapeworms he had inside of him.
Also, proceed at your own risk: http://www.khou.com/story/news/health/2014/09/24/man-riddled-with-tapeworms-after-eating-contaminated-sushi/16182885/
Also, eat sushi at your own risk.
I've seen enough gifs and Youtube videos of squirming parasites in sushi to know that you've really got to be careful where you order sushi from, and to inspect your food before you eat it as well as you can. But BLEH. I absolutely did not believe the photos (of X-Rays), until I found out that they indeed can show up on X-Rays, especially if they are causing lesions within the body.
I'm surprised he wasn't severely malnourished from the volume of tapeworms he had inside of him.
Also, proceed at your own risk: http://www.khou.com/story/news/health/2014/09/24/man-riddled-with-tapeworms-after-eating-contaminated-sushi/16182885/
Also, eat sushi at your own risk.
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I certainly wouldn't be eating anything raw in China. Poor guy.0
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Ew. Reason 63,572 to not eat sushi. (reasons 1-63,571 being that is utterly repulsive and nasty :laugh: )0
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Most places in the US are required to freeze all fish they serve. Your sushi isn't "fresh caught" that day, it's frozen, thawed (controlled thaw) and served because parasites will die in the freezer. So, if you go to decent restaurant with money to lose, you'll be fine.0
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Most places in the US are required to freeze all fish they serve. Your sushi isn't "fresh caught" that day, it's frozen, thawed (controlled thaw) and served because parasites will die in the freezer. So, if you go to decent restaurant with money to lose, you'll be fine.
Agreed. One of the few times I don't mind being served a previously frozen meal!0 -
Ew. Reason 63,572 to not eat sushi. (reasons 1-63,571 being that is utterly repulsive and nasty :laugh: )
But it's delicious when served properly!0 -
I just read a cringe worthy article about a man whose entire body was infested with tapeworms, after eating large amounts of sashimi in China.
I've seen enough gifs and Youtube videos of squirming parasites in sushi to know that you've really got to be careful where you order sushi from, and to inspect your food before you eat it as well as you can. But BLEH. I absolutely did not believe the photos (of X-Rays), until I found out that they indeed can show up on X-Rays, especially if they are causing lesions within the body.
I'm surprised he wasn't severely malnourished from the volume of tapeworms he had inside of him.
Also, proceed at your own risk: http://www.khou.com/story/news/health/2014/09/24/man-riddled-with-tapeworms-after-eating-contaminated-sushi/16182885/
Also, eat sushi at your own risk.
To point out, it was not actually verified that it was contracted from the sashimi. They "believe" that it "may have been" from it.
Aside from other foods (undercooked meat in general, for example), people who handle food (whether due to their job or even personal life) who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom can contaminate that food and pass on the eggs to others.
That aside, I've eaten raw fish since I was a little kid and I've never gotten tape worms nor have had any issues from it...and neither have any of my family or many other people I know.0 -
Ew. Reason 63,572 to not eat sushi. (reasons 1-63,571 being that is utterly repulsive and nasty :laugh: )
But it's delicious when served properly!0 -
Ew. Reason 63,572 to not eat sushi. (reasons 1-63,571 being that is utterly repulsive and nasty :laugh: )
But it's delicious when served properly!
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Entire body infested? I'd like to see this.0
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I just read a cringe worthy article about a man whose entire body was infested with tapeworms, after eating large amounts of sashimi in China.
I've seen enough gifs and Youtube videos of squirming parasites in sushi to know that you've really got to be careful where you order sushi from, and to inspect your food before you eat it as well as you can. But BLEH. I absolutely did not believe the photos (of X-Rays), until I found out that they indeed can show up on X-Rays, especially if they are causing lesions within the body.
I'm surprised he wasn't severely malnourished from the volume of tapeworms he had inside of him.
Also, proceed at your own risk: http://www.khou.com/story/news/health/2014/09/24/man-riddled-with-tapeworms-after-eating-contaminated-sushi/16182885/
Also, eat sushi at your own risk.
To point out, it was not actually verified that it was contracted from the sashimi. They "believe" that it "may have been" from it.
Aside from other foods (undercooked meat in general, for example), people who handle food (whether due to their job or even personal life) who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom can contaminate that food and pass on the eggs to others.
That aside, I've eaten raw fish since I was a little kid and I've never gotten tape worms nor have had any issues from it...and neither have any of my family or many other people I know.
Hence me saying to inspect your food and to eat at your own risk.
Any raw or undercooked food, is risky, and you and your family are lucky to have not experienced this. Most likely it's due to good food handling processes.0 -
Entire body infested? I'd like to see this.
Article linked explained this.
It's possible that the parasites spread to the man's blood stream after infection.0 -
same here, I don't eat many fish but when I do it's typically raw. You can to be VERY picky where you get if from and how it was stored and making sure it was frozen properly to deter worms. I've never had an issue and hopefully never will.
I've had food poisoning 6 times in my life and that is good enough for me, I'm almost ocd when it comes to food :laugh:0 -
I just read a cringe worthy article about a man whose entire body was infested with tapeworms, after eating large amounts of sashimi in China.
I've seen enough gifs and Youtube videos of squirming parasites in sushi to know that you've really got to be careful where you order sushi from, and to inspect your food before you eat it as well as you can. But BLEH. I absolutely did not believe the photos (of X-Rays), until I found out that they indeed can show up on X-Rays, especially if they are causing lesions within the body.
I'm surprised he wasn't severely malnourished from the volume of tapeworms he had inside of him.
Also, proceed at your own risk: http://www.khou.com/story/news/health/2014/09/24/man-riddled-with-tapeworms-after-eating-contaminated-sushi/16182885/
Also, eat sushi at your own risk.
To point out, it was not actually verified that it was contracted from the sashimi. They "believe" that it "may have been" from it.
Aside from other foods (undercooked meat in general, for example), people who handle food (whether due to their job or even personal life) who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom can contaminate that food and pass on the eggs to others.
That aside, I've eaten raw fish since I was a little kid and I've never gotten tape worms nor have had any issues from it...and neither have any of my family or many other people I know.
Hence me saying to inspect your food and to eat at your own risk.
Any raw or undercooked food, is risky, and you and your family are lucky to have not experienced this. Most likely it's due to good food handling processes.
Growing up, we caught a lot of our own fish and made sashimi out of that.
NOT suggesting people do this though. I lived pretty far out in the Pacific on a tiny island for a lot of my childhood :laugh:0 -
same here, I don't eat many fish but when I do it's typically raw. You can to be VERY picky where you get if from and how it was stored and making sure it was frozen properly to deter worms. I've never had an issue and hopefully never will.
I've had food poisoning 6 times in my life and that is good enough for me, I'm almost ocd when it comes to food :laugh:
I hear you; I generally go to the same places and order the same thing, since I can trust their food prep/storage. I've read other horror stories as bad as this one before. Including a parasite getting into a girl's eye and eating her eye from the inside. :noway:
Also...six times?! That must have been awful!0 -
Most places in the US are required to freeze all fish they serve. Your sushi isn't "fresh caught" that day, it's frozen, thawed (controlled thaw) and served because parasites will die in the freezer. So, if you go to decent restaurant with money to lose, you'll be fine.
^^What she said.
And I find sushi delicious. A salmon avocado roll or halibut sashimi? Love it! I think sushi tastes less 'fishy' than cooked fish typically.
And at most american sushi bars you'll find maybe half of the 'sushi' includes cooked fish or tempura.
[img]http://sainiur****a.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/salmon-skin-roll.gif[/img]0 -
Entire body infested? I'd like to see this.
ok saw it, this is nasty0 -
Most places in the US are required to freeze all fish they serve. Your sushi isn't "fresh caught" that day, it's frozen, thawed (controlled thaw) and served because parasites will die in the freezer. So, if you go to decent restaurant with money to lose, you'll be fine.
^^What she said.
And I find sushi delicious. A salmon avocado roll or halibut sashimi? Love it! I think sushi tastes less 'fishy' than cooked fish typically.
And at most american sushi bars you'll find maybe half of the 'sushi' includes cooked fish or tempura.
[img]http://sainiur****a.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/salmon-skin-roll.gif[/img]
But the cooked rolls, especially the eel, are so delicioussss.
Though..you can never go wrong with spicy tuna.0 -
Most places in the US are required to freeze all fish they serve. Your sushi isn't "fresh caught" that day, it's frozen, thawed (controlled thaw) and served because parasites will die in the freezer. So, if you go to decent restaurant with money to lose, you'll be fine.
^^What she said.
And I find sushi delicious. A salmon avocado roll or halibut sashimi? Love it! I think sushi tastes less 'fishy' than cooked fish typically.
And at most american sushi bars you'll find maybe half of the 'sushi' includes cooked fish or tempura.
[img]http://sainiur****a.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/salmon-skin-roll.gif[/img]
But the cooked rolls, especially the eel, are so delicioussss.
Though..you can never go wrong with spicy tuna.
I'm really partial to shrimp tempura rolls myself.0 -
Most places in the US are required to freeze all fish they serve. Your sushi isn't "fresh caught" that day, it's frozen, thawed (controlled thaw) and served because parasites will die in the freezer. So, if you go to decent restaurant with money to lose, you'll be fine.
^^What she said.
And I find sushi delicious. A salmon avocado roll or halibut sashimi? Love it! I think sushi tastes less 'fishy' than cooked fish typically.
And at most american sushi bars you'll find maybe half of the 'sushi' includes cooked fish or tempura.
[img]http://sainiur****a.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/salmon-skin-roll.gif[/img]
But the cooked rolls, especially the eel, are so delicioussss.
Though..you can never go wrong with spicy tuna.
I'm really partial to shrimp tempura rolls myself.
Except that one piece where they include the inedible part of the tail.
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Most places in the US are required to freeze all fish they serve. Your sushi isn't "fresh caught" that day, it's frozen, thawed (controlled thaw) and served because parasites will die in the freezer. So, if you go to decent restaurant with money to lose, you'll be fine.
^^What she said.
And I find sushi delicious. A salmon avocado roll or halibut sashimi? Love it! I think sushi tastes less 'fishy' than cooked fish typically.
And at most american sushi bars you'll find maybe half of the 'sushi' includes cooked fish or tempura.
[img]http://sainiur****a.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/salmon-skin-roll.gif[/img]
But the cooked rolls, especially the eel, are so delicioussss.
Though..you can never go wrong with spicy tuna.
I'm really partial to shrimp tempura rolls myself.
Except that one piece where they include the inedible part of the tail.
Yeah. It adds an extra crunch that is totally not needed :laugh:0 -
first of all. the simple but effective gifs in this thread are tres amusant. also the tails in crunchy rolls are the stupidest things EVER>
second. my son loves to watch " monsters inside me" which is a series about parasites. its gross.
but before i get all paranoid and start swearing off food and sandboxes for life i wait for the end of the episodes where they almost always say the person traveled outside the country to somewhere where everyone knows they should be more careful... or that they say, ate a live crab that the sushi chef pulled out of a secret off menu bowl...
i had the pleasure of listening to a restaurant get inspected while i was eating there once, a sushi place. why they had their inspection at a table in the dining room i am not sure...seemed rather unprofessional. but they were pretty darn thourough about every single kind of fish they sold, and what had to be done with each one. i am not really worried here. but if someone offers you a live crustacean from a secret bowl, its best to avoid it.0 -
also, creamy scallop, spicy tuna, eel, urchin roe, spider roll. and a side of o****ashi.
omg. the censored my spinach salad.0 -
also, creamy scallop, spicy tuna, eel, urchin roe, spider roll. and a side of o****ashi.
omg. the censored my spinach salad.
Testing... O****ashi.
Edit: what the poop! It's a food in another language...and it's censored? Lol.0 -
Yes. Law requires ALL sashimi fish to be frozen first. So that won't happen in the United states. Mmmmmm, sushi!Most places in the US are required to freeze all fish they serve. Your sushi isn't "fresh caught" that day, it's frozen, thawed (controlled thaw) and served because parasites will die in the freezer. So, if you go to decent restaurant with money to lose, you'll be fine.0 -
Most places in the US are required to freeze all fish they serve. Your sushi isn't "fresh caught" that day, it's frozen, thawed (controlled thaw) and served because parasites will die in the freezer. So, if you go to decent restaurant with money to lose, you'll be fine.
Speaking as an ex-chef. No.
(I will grant that most people will never notice the difference between frozen and fresh fish though.)
ETA - the tails in the shrimp tempura rolls are pleasantly crunchy. I take it folks aren't too keen on amaebi then either, eh?0 -
This shows tapeworms in the whole body in a relatively "short" time according to the article. So I'm suspicious since the man said "recently" and don't believe an infestation like this happens quickly. Also tapeworms are usually found in the intestines and not all over the body.I just read a cringe worthy article about a man whose entire body was infested with tapeworms, after eating large amounts of sashimi in China.
I've seen enough gifs and Youtube videos of squirming parasites in sushi to know that you've really got to be careful where you order sushi from, and to inspect your food before you eat it as well as you can. But BLEH. I absolutely did not believe the photos (of X-Rays), until I found out that they indeed can show up on X-Rays, especially if they are causing lesions within the body.
I'm surprised he wasn't severely malnourished from the volume of tapeworms he had inside of him.
Also, proceed at your own risk: http://www.khou.com/story/news/health/2014/09/24/man-riddled-with-tapeworms-after-eating-contaminated-sushi/16182885/
Also, eat sushi at your own risk.
Diphyllobothrium latum is the type of tapeworm from fish.
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