Question 1

is there a difference between a tapeworm and a liver fluke?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Some worms head for the liver but some (like tapeworms) are content to live in the intestine and consume the food you eat.  Liver flukes rely more on the processed nutrients in fresh blood.

Question 2

what are the symptoms of chinese liver fluke infection?

Accepted Answer

See below: Pain in the right upper side of the abdomen, fever, and chills. The symptoms are very vague, therefore a physician would definitely have to diagnose this. It is a very rare infection.

Question 3

how would you know if you have a liver fluke?

Accepted Answer

Fecal test.: A diagnosis is made when a lucky pathologist gets to examine the little critters (or their eggs) in a stool sample.  Symptoms of a liver fluke include having smelly, fatty stools (the flukes disrupt and/or eat bile which digests fats), jaundice, fever.  A serious complication is cancer of the bile tract.  See your doctor, especially if you've traveled to asia (flukes are endemic there).

Question 4

what causes humans to get liver fluke disease?

Accepted Answer

Contaminated food: Infection with liver fluke parasites can happen after consumption of contaminated undercooked/uncooked fish.  There are some liver flukes that can contaminate watercress, parsley, and alfalfa; the contamination comes from sheep and cows in that case.

Question 5

can ibs cause mucus in bms?  how can i tell the difference between strings of mucus and a possible tapeworm infection?

Accepted Answer

Mucous in stool: Why are you considering IBS? If what you are seeing in your stool is truly mucous, then you could have inflammation of the lining or wall of the bowels. I doubt that you would have mucous in your stool and no other symptoms or signs whatsoever. If you do have a tapeworm infestation (which is uncommon in the U.S.), you could see proglottids in your stool, which look NOTHING like mucous.

Question 6

is there a difference between liver failure and dysfunction?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Failure is the end stage of liver illness. Patient tend to have bleeding, ascites (large belly), confusion, prone to infections. 
Dysfunction refers to alterations on liver level. The focus is to treat the condition (ie, alcoholism, hepatitis a-b-c, drug toxicity, gallstones,  etc). Dysfuntion many time is reversible depending on the cause.

Question 7

is there a difference between  cirrhosis of the liver and scarring?

Accepted Answer

Severity: Scarring(fibrosis) of the liver is rate on a scale of 0-4.  Stage 4 fibrosis is equivalent to cirrhosis.

Question 8

is there a difference between an mrcp and a 3d mri of the abdomen/liver?

Accepted Answer

MRCP: could be considered a type of 3D MRI, which is a more general term.

Question 9

is there a difference between jaundice and liver inflammation?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Jaundice is yellowish coloration of the eyes and skin, due to excess bilirubin in blood.  This can occur without liver inlammation, e.G, bile duct obstruction.  Inflammation of the liver usually causes jaundice but can exist without causing jaundice.

Question 10

what is the difference between primary and secondary liver cancer ?

Accepted Answer

Where cancer started: A primary liver cancer began in the liver. The original cell that turned cancerous was from the liver. A secondary liver cancer began somewhere else and spread to the liver.

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