Mum Fed Daughter With Tapeworms To Make Her Lose Weight for Beauty Pageant
An American mother gave her daughter a pill filled with tapeworm eggs to help her slim down for a beauty competition… and didn’t tell her. Tapeoworms have been used for nearly 100 years to increase weight-loss, but doctors have warned the practice is extremely dangerous The incident at a Florida hospital was featured in an episode of the medical documentary Untold Stories of the ER. The unnamed mother thought she was doing best for her child because there was a beauty pageant in a couple of weeks and she wanted her to look her best. But weeks later the girl is in agonising pain and a scan at the hospital shows there is something live in her tummy… and she is not pregnant. Shortly after being given a stomach drug to help diagnosis, the girl rushes to the toilet and, amid her screams, suddenly all is revealed. The toilet bowl is a seething mass of tapeworms. Caught on camera, pediatric nurse Maricar Cabral-Osorio is clearly close to being sick as she tells viewers: “It was a toil...