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It can take months or years to notice any signs of a tapeworm. They can include: mild nausea; diarrhea; abdominal pain; loss of appetite; weight loss; Sometimes, a person can feel a piece of the worm coming out through the anus or see it in their feces. There are different types of tapeworm. One (fish tapeworm) can cause anemia because it absorbs vitamin B12, which helps make red blood cells.
1. Taenia solium. T.solium, also known as pork tapeworms, can measure up to 10m when mature and are among the biggest of these ribbon-like worms to infect humans. They do this through larval cysts in undercooked pork that hatch in the stomach and quickly grow into adult worms which inhabit the intestine, feeding on the nutrients you eat. Disease is generally restricted to malnutrition as the worm competes with you for food â unless you ingest eggs rather than a cyst.