How can you get rid of a tapeworm?

Tapeworm: From undercooked or raw pork, beef or fish. Stool exam can detect larvae & eggs. If you have them, you would experience diarrhea, vague abdominal cramps, distentions, flatulance & nausea. Prevention is cooking meat or fish well, and treatment is with Praziquantel drug or surgery to remove the head of the worm or the cysts.

Tapeworm: Tapeworm infections are usually treated with medications like Nitazoxanide (Alinia), Albendazole (Albenza) or Praziquantel (Biltricide). These medicines are toxic to adult tapeworms. Niclosamide is specifically used to treat tapeworm infections.