Woman Says She Returned From India with a Metre-Long Tapeworm and 38 Parasites in Her Brain
- Cardiff-Based Lowri Denman, 42, is launching a 12-part podcast to document her survival of 38 brain parasites contracted during a 2007 trip to India, turning her decade-long battle with seizures and psychosis into a platform for health awareness.
- Denman contracted a tapeworm during her 2007 India trip but remained asymptomatic for years; four years later, she passed a metre-long tapeworm, and in 2011 suffered a grand mal seizure that led doctors to diagnose neurocysticercosis, a rare parasitic brain infection.
- Scans revealed 38 parasitic cysts lodged in her brain, triggering severe anxiety, paranoia and psychosis. She spent three months in a neuropsychiatric ward in September 2016 on steroids, methotrexate and anti-parasitic drugs, yet symptoms worsened when she weaned off medication.
- Fully recovered and seizure-free since 2017, Denman collaborated with her friend of 20 years, producer Nicola Brown, to raise £25,000 via Crowdfunder for the podcast project, which was shortlisted for 2025's The Whickers Podcast Pitch Award.
- Consultant Dr. Brendan Healy called the case "once-in-a-career," noting he would not expect another during his career. By sharing her journey, Denman hopes to demystify this stigmatised condition and provide the resources and support she desperately lacked during her decade-long struggle.
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A British woman faced a decade of seizures, epilepsy and mental health problems after doctors detected 38 larvae of had in her brain.The infection appeared years after a trip to India and resulted in a complex treatment that included medication, neuropsychiatric hospitalization and temporary loss of autonomy.Lowri Denman, 42 years old, told the British daily The Sun who traveled to India in 2007.After returning to the United Kingdom she did not …
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A Welsh woman Lowri Denman suffers an exceptionally rare illness after travelling abroad in the late 2000s. She survives. She rebuilds her life. She returns to work. The medical episode ends years ago. Then, in 2026, the far-left British propaganda media BBC suddenly decides this forgotten story deserves front-page attention – not because of a new scientific discovery, not because of a fresh outbreak, not because the World Health Organization ha…
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