The Role of Nurses in Prevention of Taenia solium Cysticercosis in Brain

Abstract

Cysticercosis can be found in all genders and ages who eat fresh vegetables or raw pork. Having consummed the embrynated eggs of Taenia solium in fresh vegetables or raw pork, the cysts will spread in all over the body. If the cysts penatrated into important organs such as brain and spinal cord, these caused neurocysticercosis. The fatal symptoms of neurocysticercosis are headache, nausea, vomiting, epileptic seizures, and paralytic limbs, which can may cause death. These have direct impacts on people’s health, as well as the economy and society. Cysticercosis can be prevented by the modification of healthy consuming behaviors. However, it is difficult to promote healthy consuming behaviors because of various factors. From literature reviews, promoting people's health literacy is very crucial that impacts on behaviors and health outcomes. It is also an essential skill in health care. However, health literate individuals can access, comprehend, apply communication skills, self-managed, and media literate, which influence on their health behaviors. Similarly, promoting people to be health literate in food consumption to prevent cysticercosis will help them to have safe behaviors and ultimately reduce cysticercosis.

Thus, the purpose of this academic article is to present nurses' roles in public health monitoring as well as provide knowledge and understanding. And changing the behavior of consuming cooked food and drinking clean water will be an effective and sustainable way to prevent the occurrence of pork tapeworm eggs in the brains of the population.