To cure back pain, elderly woman swallows 8 live frogs — what happened next

Beijing (The Uttam Hindu): Shocking news has emerged from Hangzhou, China, leaving you stunned. An 82-year-old woman suffering from back pain tried a dangerous home remedy at someone's suggestion, which almost cost her her life. To relieve the pain, the grandmother swallowed not one or two, but eight live frogs.

According to the South China Morning Post, this elderly woman, surnamed Zhang, had long suffered from back pain caused by a herniated disc. Someone advised her that swallowing a live frog would permanently alleviate her pain. Driven by this superstition, she thoughtlessly ordered eight small frogs and swallowed them.

But instead of the pain subsiding, his condition worsened. Soon, he developed unbearable abdominal pain and his digestive system stopped working, forcing him to be hospitalized in critical condition.

When the woman's son told doctors that his mother had swallowed eight live frogs, they were stunned. What the investigation revealed was even more horrifying. Doctors discovered that the frogs had introduced a dangerous parasite called Sparganum into the woman's body. This infection had severely damaged her digestive system and dramatically increased the number of cells in her blood that indicate a parasitic infection.