Artists go to great lengths to lose weight. A few days ago, Britney Spears admitted on TV that she tried to eat pinworm powder and diet pills and lost 20 kilograms in a short time, but she also had diarrhea and physical problems. The doctor reminded that although using parasites to lose weight is effective quickly, it is prone to anemia, malnutrition, diarrhea and other symptoms, and even life-threatening in severe cases.

Britney Spears is an artist. She tried to lose weight by taking pinworm eggs and diet pills. She lost 20 kilograms in a short time. However, Dr. Liu Zhongzheng reminded that using folk remedies to lose weight is not only easy to hurt the body, but even life-threatening in serious cases. (Photo/Facebook from britney spears) Liu Zhongzheng, a gastroenterologist at Children's General Hospital, said that this kind of pinworm, also known as "dung worm", is about 0.2 to 0.8 cm in size. Female pinworms usually move to the vicinity of the mouth when the host sleeps at night, causing itching. Enterobius vermicularis mainly parasitizes in the large intestine and small intestine, and absorbs food and nutrition from human blood and intestines to survive. If not treated in time, the host is prone to abdominal pain, diarrhea, anemia, malnutrition and other symptoms, and even pinworm will crawl into organs and parts of the human body, such as liver, lung and heart, causing fatal diseases.

Dr. Liu Zhongzheng said that although pinworm can lose weight quickly, the health costs and risks are too great, so people should never try. It is suggested that people with obesity problems can consult a weight loss clinic doctor or dietitian to improve their personal obesity, reduce the total calorie intake of food, eat more and less, drink more water and exercise more, and keep regular work and rest.