Vegetables are an indispensable ingredient when eating hotpot.Vegetables often used to dip hot pot including: spinach, celery, watercress ... These are aquatic vegetables, if not processed properly, it will have the potential to cause disease.
Doctor Le Van Thieu, Department of General Infections, Central Tropical Diseases Hospitalsaid, during the examination, the doctor had met a number of patients with liver fluke infection, liver damage due to the hobby of eating raw aquatic vegetables or eating unskilled hotpot.
When the patient has symptoms, going to the doctor will be surprised to find himself suffering from liver fluke.
According to Dr. Thieu, many people think that when dipping vegetables in hotpot, it only needs to be dipped quickly, so the vegetables will be more crispy, sweet and delicious.However, this way of eating vegetables can increase the risk of parasites infection, especially when using aquatic vegetables.
Vegetable hotpot.(Artwork)
Aquatic vegetables growing underwater such as needles, cilantro, vegetables, watercress vegetables, ... are easily polluted when the water is not clean.Dr. Thieu said the water environment is an ideal condition for the tail larvae and liver tapeworms to develop.The larvae can stick to raw vegetables under the water.In addition, these vegetables may also be infected with parasites, bacteria, and other helminths if they grow in places where domestic waste, waste from animals.
"Those who eat non -cooked parasites contaminated with parasites will have a very high risk of parasitic infection", Dr. Thieu said.
With liver fluke, when the tapeworm larvae enter the body, they will enter the stomach, down the duodenum, peel and penetrate the duodenum into the peritoneal cavity to the liver, perforation of the liver and penetrate into the needsLiver tissue, causing liver damage.
Dr. Thieu said:"Large liver fluke parasites mainly in the liver tissue, but in the invasion stage, the fluke can move peanuts and cause damage in other organs such as the intestinal wall, stomach wall, abdominal wall".
After about 2-3 months, when the flukes enter the liver tissue, the fluke will move into the biliary tract, becoming an adult and lay eggs.At the bile line, adult flukes can parasitize and cause disease for many years if the patient does not detect and treat it promptly.
In biliary tract, tapeworms can cause damage to biliary tract, bile, inflammation and secondary biliary tract fibrosis, may even cause bile carcinoma.
Eating vegetables properly helps prevent parasites
To ensure safety when using aquatic vegetables to eat hotpot, Dr. Thien noted:"People need to change their eating habits, make sure vegetables are cooked well before use”.
To prevent helminths and parasites, Dr. Thieu recommends that people need to follow the following principles:
- Should only eat aquatic vegetables after being cooked well.
- Ensuring personal hygiene and residence, avoiding the environment wet and polluted.
- Periodic helmet for dogs and cats.
- People should take the worms periodically 3 times a year, 4 months apart (dosage depending on the age or as directed by the doctor).