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Incredibly dangerous reason you should never eat undercooked bacon

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Updated 10:03 17 Mar 2024 GMTPublished 09:59 17 Mar 2024 GMT

Incredibly dangerous reason you should never eat undercooked bacon

This bloke's bacon preference ended up biting him on the backside

Olivia Burke

Olivia Burke

It's been drummed into us that we need to triple check how people like their eggs in the morning by Dean Martin, but the legendary singer didn't place a lot of emphasis on how long we should leave the bacon in the pan.

We all have our own preferences when it comes to the texture of the breakfast staple, but one thing you need to completely avoid is undercooking it.

Otherwise, you might end up like this bloke who didn't like to leave his bacon sizzling for long enough and paid the price.

If you're eating your breakfast right about now, be warned - you might lose your appetite.

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The 52-year-old, from the US, headed to the hospital after being crippled by migraines for a prolonged period of time.

He explained that although he had suffered with them already, the pain had really gone up a notch and they were now occurring on an almost weekly basis, while his usual medication didn't touch the sides anymore.

The bloke's penchant for undercooked bacon landed him in the hospital.
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Medics then carried out a CT scan on the man, where they chillingly found a flurry of tapeworm larval cysts in his brain - which can cause cysticercosis.

This parasitic tissue infection commonly affects the brain, muscle or other tissues and typically causes symptoms such as headaches, seizures, confusion, difficulty with balance - and can be fatal.

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After quizzing the patient, doctors concluded that he had contracted the tapeworm cysts because of 'improper handwashing' - having got the initial tapeworm from undercooked bacon. Yikes.

According to an article published in the American Journal of Case Reports discussing the man's illness, he also 'admitted to a habit of eating lightly cooked, non-crispy bacon for most of his life'.

Medics believe the man infected himself by chowing down on the undercooked pork repeatedly, although they noted that it can 'only be speculated' that his 'eating habits' and improper handwashing caused it.

They added: "Our patient’s lifelong preference for soft bacon may have led to instances of undercooked bacon consumption. But this would have caused him to develop taeniasis, an intestinal tapeworm, and not cysticercosis."

Doctors found tapeworm larval cysts were in his brain.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CASE REPORTS

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Eating pork that isn't cooked enough cannot directly give a person cysticercosis, but it can cause a tapeworm infection if it is contaminated with cysts of Taenia solium - also known as the pork tapeworm - and it hasn't been in the pan long enough.

Experts explained that the condition is extremely uncommon in the likes of the UK and the US, as pig meat undergoes thorough testing before it ends up in the supermarket.

The authors of the report concluded: “It is very rare for patients to contract neurocysticercosis outside of classic exposures or travel, and such cases in the United States were thought to be non-existent."

The bloke was admitted to hospital where he was treated with anti-parasitic and anti-inflammatory medication.

Thankfully, he has made a full recovery - but I bet his daily bacon butties are off the cards now.

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The doctors who saved his bacon said he was discharged after two weeks while showing a 'regression' in lesions on his brain and an improvement in his headaches.

Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Images/AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CASE REPORTS

Topics: Food And Drink, Health, Weird, US News

Olivia Burke
Olivia Burke

Olivia is a journalist at LADbible Group with more than five years of experience and has worked for a number of top publishers, including News UK. She also enjoys writing food reviews (as well as the eating part). She is a stereotypical reality TV addict, but still finds time for a serious documentary.

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