A Florida pageant mom fed daughter tapeworms, so the teen could lose weight. Nurse Maricar Cabral-Osori admitted a teenager to the ER after she complained about severe stomach pains. The girl’s mother initially thought her daughter was pregnant, until an ultrasound ruled that out.
The teen was found screaming in pain over a toilet bowl of live tapeworms. Cabral-Osori said the teenager had passed the tapeworms, some of which were “very long and trying to get out of the toilet bowl.”
She said the victim’s mother admitted to buying tapeworm eggs in Mexico and feeding them to her daughter. The eggs hatched after the girl swallowed them.
[Image: Shutterstock]
Tapeworms attach themselves to the intestinal wall of the teenage host, sucking nutrients and calories.
Certain tapeworms can grow up to 30 feet long and can live within a host for up to 20 years.
Tapeworms have been used for nearly 100 years to stimulate weight loss, but doctors have warned the practice is extremely dangerous, citing unstable side effects and the possibility of death.
[Image: Shutterstock]