Maricar Cabral-Osorio recounted the stomach-turning discovery for the reality television show Untold stories of the ER after a girl with a bulging stomach came in with her mother for help.
At first, Ms Cabral-Osorio and her colleagues thought the girl was pregnant, until an ultrasound revealed she wasn’t.
Instead the scan revealed something mysterious living in her intestines.
Despite the test, the full extent of the girl’s condition was not revealed until a trip to the bathroom.
Shortly after the teen excused herself, the medical staff heard screams coming from the toilet. It wasn’t until Ms Cabral-Osorio and her colleagues ran to the bathroom that she discovered the cause of the girl’s discomfort.
“The toilet bowl full of tapeworms. Blegh!” Ms Cabral-Osorio said.
“It was so gross and she had pooped all these tapeworms. There were a couple that were very long and wiggling around trying to get out of the toilet bowl,” she said. “We were wondering, how did she get those tape worms? And then we saw the mother turn white.”
The mother, who had until now complained about the amount of time nurses were taking to care for her daughter, then became emotional and began apologising to her daughter.
“I just did it to make you a little skinner. You needed some help before we went on to the pageant,” the mother was heard saying.
It emerged that the mother had fed her daughter tapeworms eggs, which had hatched inside her.
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