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Bookmark or Share- Tapeworm infection - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo ClinicTreatment for tapeworm infection. Your health care provider treats a tapeworm infection in the intestines with anti-parasitic drugs. These include: Praziquantel (Biltricide). Albendazole. Nitazoxanide (Alinia). These drugs kill the tapeworm but not the eggs.
- Tapeworm infection - Symptoms and causes - Mayo ClinicOverview. A tapeworm is a parasite that can live and feed in human intestines. This is called a tapeworm infection. A young and inactive form of the tapeworm is called a larval cyst. It can stay alive in other parts of the body. This is called a larval cyst infection. A tapeworm in the intestines often causes mild symptoms.
- What You Should Know About Tapeworms - WebMDWritten by Rachel Reiff Ellis. Gut Parasite. 1 /12. Tapeworms are flat, segmented worms that can invade the digestive tracts of people and animals. They’re parasites, which means they need a host...
- Symptoms of a Tapeworm Infection and How Its Treated - Verywell HealthTapeworms are parasitic worms that can infect the digestive tract. Pork tapeworms can even move out of the gut and form cysts in other parts of the body, including the muscles and brain. The most common way to get tapeworms is by eating infected beef, pork, or fish.
- Tapeworm Infection: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment - Cleveland ClinicA tapeworm is a flat, parasitic worm that lives in the intestines of an animal host. It commonly infects many different animals, including humans, livestock and domestic cats and dogs (usually meat-eating mammals.) Like other parasites, the mature tapeworm can only survive inside the host animal, feeding off of the host’s own nutrients.
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