Re: I think my 76 yr old dad has a head tape worm. Tests?
I am trying to get my 72 year old mother and 79 year old father to do it. But I'm afraid to push them too hard, because stirring things up can make things worse, if you aren't committed to a follow up protocol, and they are dubious of the process because of the die off. Some people simply do not understand the no pain, no gain process.
They migrate from the intestines into striated muscles, the organs and the head.
If he has tape worms in his brain, and he does nothing about it, they will get worse and eventually kill him. If he chooses to deworm, but he is unsuccessful, he could either make things worse, or slow the progression of the disease, depending on how agressively he fights them. Or he could be successful and get rid of them entirely.
I would explain the four possibilities and let him decide what he wants to do, then support his decision. The floater might be nothing. Or it might mean that things are breaking loose, and he needs to do something pretty quick, as the disease is getting ready to progress rapidly.
Slow steady methodical work the plan and stick with the program to maximize the possibility of his body shrinking them, disintegrating them, and eliminating them. Killing off too much, too quickly will insure that he gets really sick. Same thing will happen if he doesn't go after them aggressively enough. He will have to learn to listen to his body and heed the signals it is giving him.
The only thing we know for sure is that if he does nothing about them, and if nothing else kills him first, they will. If
Tapeworms in the brain kill him, he'll very likely have seizures. Seems to me the question is, "Would you prefer to refrain from doing something that might give you seizures, and wait to see if you die from them at a later date?"