Causes, symptoms and ways to prevent rice fluke disease

Over the past few days, the number of children in Bac Ninh province who have tested positive for rice fluke has continuously increased rapidly. According to the reported data of treatment facilities so far, there are at least 55 provinces and cities with cases of tapeworm disease, tapeworm larvae. So what is rice fluke disease? At what temperature does swine flu die and what should each family do to prevent this disease?

The main cause of the disease is eating foods contaminated with larvae in the soil, in water (aquatic vegetables, unwashed raw vegetables ..) or contaminated from undercooked meat products

Adult tapeworm disease often has no obvious symptoms, some cases have clinical manifestations such as abdominal pain, digestive disorders or neurological symptoms (asthenia).
In cases of many tapeworms, the tapeworm can be seen in the feces or crawling out of the anus (usually seen in underwear when changing at the end of the working day); appear burning fluke in feces (small, flat, ivory-white segments like jackfruit, flat head).

In general, helminth diseases, when entering the body, take up food, leading to malabsorption, slowing down physical development, causing digestive disorders.
Porkworm larvae are most dangerous when they attack the brain and heart, causing serious health effects and can leave complications. Intraocular cases can cause glaucoma, decreased vision or blindness.

The disease is transmitted mainly through the gastrointestinal tract.
Pig tapeworm larvae penetrate and develop in the muscle tissues of pigs. The cysts are concentrated in milky white granules, the size of a grain of rice, which is the image of the 'rice pig' that many people know. Humans ate that pork and then contracted the rice fluke disease. However, tapeworm larvae die after 1 hour at a temperature of 50-60 degrees Celsius. Therefore, if the food is not cooked, the risk of disease is very high. Tapeworm larvae are present in the feces of infected humans or pigs. When hygiene is not ensured, the larvae will mix with vegetables, fruits, and water sources. Humans who use it without washing it thoroughly, cooking it will easily be infected with pork tapeworm. People who only have pork tapeworm but do not treat it, burn the old fluke back up into the stomach, releasing the larvae of the fluke. Thus, that person from being infected with tapeworms turns into a combination infection of both pork tapeworms and larvae, making the disease much worse. The life time of the pork tapeworm as well as the eggs of the fluke in the human body can be up to 10-20 years.
After eating pork fluke, about 10-15 days later, blood test by ELISA method will show whether the patient has tapeworm infection or not.

At what temperature does the pig fluke die is something that many people care about. According to the Department of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, the larvae of swine fluke will die when cooked at 75°C for 5 minutes or boiled within 2 minutes. Therefore, to prevent swine flu infection, it is necessary to eat cooked, drink boiling.

To proactively prevent rice fluke and pork tapeworm larvae, according to the Department of Preventive Health, the Ministry of Health recommends people:
Do not eat raw foods such as pork, spring rolls, and rare (dangerous) pork. risk of adult tapeworm infection), unhygienic raw vegetables (risk of larval disease). Management of fresh feces, especially in areas where adult tapeworms are present in the intestines. Use hygienic latrines, do not raise pigs freely. People with adult flukes in the intestines must be treated, not defecated indiscriminately. Strictly manage hygiene standards of pig (swine) slaughterhouses.