'Absolutely disgusting!' British tourist left with 38 parasites in her brain after holiday to India

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Absolutely disgusting!' British tourist left with 38 parasites in her brain after holiday to India.

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A Cardiff woman has opened up on her shock after discovering 38 parasites living inside her brain following a holiday in India.

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Lowri Denman, 42, found a metre-long tapeworm while using a restaurant toilet, describing it as "absolutely disgusting, like Sellotape with like little ridges in it".The gruesome find was her first indication of neurocysticercosis, a rare brain infection caused by pork tapeworm larvae that triggers severe headaches, seizures and psychosis.Her consultant, Dr Brendan Healy, a specialist in infectious diseases and microbiology, believes she contracted the infection during a three-month journey through India in 2007.Despite deliberately avoiding meat throughout her travels to prevent food poisoning, Dr Healy suspects she unknowingly ingested pork containing microscopic tapeworm eggs.Only a handful of people in Britain receive this diagnosis every year.Three years passed before the tapeworm emerged in 2010, and Ms Denman flushed it away without realising its...

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