Believe it or not, this is a real condition 😳

I've taken care of (iirc) two patients with this. Because of the location of the cysts, they needed a neurosurgeon to remove them. I don't recall where the 1st patient's cysts were, but the 2nd were in the posterior fossa. Impressive, they were.

do people become weird cognitively? Are these symtoms?

Your basic cysticercosis.

Interesting how he says "Swiss cheese". I learnt about Swiss cheese pattern on ultrasound from a sonographer a few days ago. And he's no very far from having "Swiss cheese" in his head😅

In other news:

It's something to look further into, the studies are still "young" Could be interesting in the near future 🤔

🧠 Absolutely real — this is called Neurocysticercosis caused by Taenia solium larvae. The “Swiss cheese brain” appearance comes from multiple cysts in the brain that may later calcify after the parasites die. A major cause of adult-onset seizures in many developing regions ⚠️ Sometimes truth in medicine is stranger than fiction 😳

Well, yeah. It’s neurocysticerosis.

Is my brain like swiss cheese? no — if your brain were like Swiss cheese, you wouldn’t be asking clever questions😅

Swiss cheese is a great description! More specifically, Emmental 🧀

Yes it is. They are mostly through raw vegetables. We had one tenant when I was unmarried in their relative one toddler had worm in his head. Neuro surgeon found when they did CT that was active. The baby use to get seizures. It took long time to control and kill. Since than those who heard stopped making salads from cauliflower and cabbage because they are potentially risky and mostly worms in India. The bigger issue is if worm multiply.

Doctors are superheroes How do you tell a man such a thing in the calmest way making it feel like nothing really happen

Aqui no Brasil é comum, temos que ensinar pros alunos em biologia do ensino médio

I know. I've seen it on Grey's Anatomy and looked it up. Shockingly scary and can be life threatening if neurosurgeon cannot remove it whilst still intact.

Its a shame the diagnosis is not called worm (larvae) graveyard.

I am led to believe that RFK had had neurocysticercosis. This might explain his ‘ivermectin cures all’ mantra...

The good news is, he still can become a Secretary of Health.

True, we had a case in our ICU, but he was in a more serious condition. He got disabled.

quite common here in Peru...