“I feel how it moves”: she is the influencer who has a live Tanzanian worm in her foot

As the saying goes, “After a taste comes a scare,” is what the Spanish influencer Lucía Pombo is going through, who announced through her Instagram account that she was left with the experience and a worm from her trip to Tanzania. your foot.

The airline pilot told her followers that she had been to the doctors for several days because she felt itching on her skin, to which one of them explained that she a larva migratesa parasite that now lives inside him.

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Through a series of stories published on the social network, Pombo assured: “I thought it was a bite or a reaction to something and it turns out to be a worm. I notice how it moves. They recommended that I go to the hospital to remove it as soon as possible,” reported a publication in La Vanguardia.

Lucía Pombo was traveling in Tanzania for two weeks with some of her family members, so the influencer thought her symptoms were a bite or an allergic reaction.

“You don’t know how sad it is to feel like things are moving forward. “I would rather live in ignorance.”cites information on the digital portal 20 Minutos.

How to treat larva migrans?

The young Spanish woman told her followers that the best way to get rid of the worm is to take treatment with deworming pills. “But they are quite slow,” the influencer adds in the aforementioned note.

A report from the digital newspaper La Razón states that after the parasite dies in the young pilot’s body, the animal decomposes. The treatment is possible it takes three to six months to have an effect.

This situation is faced by one of the Pombo sisters, while at the same time she received a major contract from the streaming platform Amazon Prime Video to make a documentary film with her family.

(JO)