By Amanda Andrade-Rhoades,
Doctors discovered something disturbing after a 31-year-old mother from Gartland, Texas, complained of headaches.
After Yadira Rostro, 31, started having headaches, her condition began to deteriorate.
"Sometimes my sight was impaired... I could not see properly," Rostro told WFAA.
Doctors quickly determined the cause was sacs of larvae from eight tapeworm eggs in her brain, USA Today reported.
"They looked a little bit like eggs, and they have a clear
sac," neurosurgeon Richard Meyrat of Methodist Dallas Medical Center
told WFAA. "And inside it, a small tapeworm."
Meyrat believes Rostro picked up the parasite after eating
food contaminated with fecal matter; the fact that it wound up in her
brain was merely bad luck.
He added that he’s never seen a case like this before.
"I think shes just happy to be alive," Meyrat said. "Her headaches are gone, and she's feeling better.”
Rostro is grateful for the relief.
"I'm very grateful to God that I'm in his hands," she said.
With Rostro’s permission, Methodist Dallas Medical Center
shared a video of doctors removing the larvae, but she has decided not
to look at the footage.
Photo Credit: Methodist Dallas Medical Center/WFAA
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