Do you still eat Sushi?

I swore off sushi after two episodes of severe abdominal pain that occurred over 9 years ago after I went to a local sushi bar. . I eventually went to a gastroenterologist for an upper and lower endoscopy. that were essentially negative. The pain didn't resolve until I asked the doctor to give me a trial of metronidazole for two weeks. He obliged. I've been fine ever since that time. I believe that I had a parasite.

I can't give it up, but I don't eat it regularly. That article gave me the creeps though.

When I have asked chefs about the sushi/worm dilemma. They tell me that the fish is flashed frozen, which kills the worms. But, you are still stuck with the dead worms.

Look DLers!

The Maiden Aunt Brigade has found something riskier than sex!!!

Sex can only result in STDs. But sushi ... potentially fatal parasites!!!

Both should be avoided at all costs!

I took a parasitology class in college, no one would eat anything raw after that class.

Where I live, all sushi fish is flash frozen.

r6 me too. I lived in Japan for years and ate sushi all the time: bargain basement sushi, half-price special sushi, fancy sushi, whatever. I never once got sick. If people are getting sick in the US, it is probably because general food safety practices leave a lot to be desired.

I've had bareback sex all my adult life and remain negative. I never once got sick.

[quote]Some have protective shells, heat is the only way to truly kill them.

Not true OP. Flash freezing kills them too.

At least here in Europe, fish used for sushi must be frozen first. Isn't that obligatory also in the US?

if someone offered me a gazillion (yes, GA) dollars to eat 1 piece of raw fish they would get a resounding HECK to the NAH

Just close your eyes and imagine you're rimming.

[quote]If people are getting sick in the US, it is probably because general food safety practices leave a lot to be desired.

That article was not about a man in the US R7. It was from an Asian country where fish is eaten in high volumes.

R9 - It is an FDA requirement except for tuna (which has other issues but not parasites). It is important to note that the flash freezing needs to be done in a commercial grade freezer.

I'd say eating sushi is safer than reading the mail online.

Flash Freezing is also a myth. It may kill some bacteria, but most of it is just put into hibernation. Scientist study live bacteria in the frozen ice of Antarctica all the time. Also, eggs tend to be even more impervious. Brine shrimp eggs for example can be stored years in a totally dry open container without water, food, sunlight or humidity and still hatch once hydrated. Sort of like dry yeast. Freezing it is not going to kill it.

[quote]Brine shrimp eggs for example can be stored years in a totally dry open container without water, food, sunlight or humidity and still hatch once hydrated.

Basically sea monkeys, right?

[quote]I've had bareback sex all my adult life and remain negative. I never once got sick.

We get the point, R8. Always wear condoms while eating sushi.

No way will I eat ANYTHING from Japan, inclusive of kelp. ALL of the fish are radiated from Fukushima as evidenced by the sea animals rolling up dead on west coast shores. I got thyroid cancer from it all.

Never eaten it, never will.

[quote]If people are getting sick in the US, it is probably because general food safety practices leave a lot to be desired.

What happens when the people preparing Japanese food aren't Japanese-clean.

I have a small digital geiger counter and use it on all of my food.

I really don't see what the problem is.

Cheryl-the problem is your skanky pussy. It's probably ground zero for plutonium and agent orange.

R14 - do you also consider climate change a myth?

Japan clean? You must be joking!

The radiation from Fukushima dumping tons of contaminated water into the ocean has become apparent. In 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…

• 73 percent of mackerel tested

• 91 percent of the halibut

• 92 percent of the sardines

• 93 percent of the tuna and eel

• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies

• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish

I'm just too squeamish to eat sushi, knowing that one is playing Russian Roulette with cholera, hepatitis, and parasites.

Did not realize how much sushi bothered the Maiden Aunts.

Hepatitis.

Wow.

No Rr22, climate change is not a myth. What an odd assumption you are making trying to equate flash freezing to climate change.

Facts are facts. Climate change is a fact. So is the fact that freezing does not kill every organism on the planet. Mammals cant survive, but bacteria an lots of other microorganism survive a freeze and thaw. There is even a species of frog that can do this. Flash freezing is not a cure all to killing larva and worm eggs.

I don't imagine raw oysters are that fabulous for you either.

Most HIV doctors recommend their patient NOT eat Sushi or any raw fish. They know worms and other parasites are common in uncooked fish (from heat) and someone with a compromised immune cant risk it.

If you have hemochromatosis, you shouldn't eat sushi.

[quote] I don't imagine raw oysters are that fabulous for you either.

Probably not, but how many people eat raw oysters these days? Its really old school. Like organ meats, just not that popular with the under 60 crowd.

The only way to be 100% sure your food has no malevolent organic content is to get it straight from the factory.

to be safe we should all have our jaws wired shut and drink Ensure for the rest of our lives

R16 I stopped eating sushi after Fukushima too & R19 where did you buy and what kind of radiation does it test for?

The original article is about tapeworms, and the case was in China, where the standards are notoriously low.

[quote]Tapeworm infections occur after ingesting the larvae of diphyllobothrium, found in freshwater fish such as salmon, although marinated and smoked fish can also transmit the worm.

I don't eat much sushi, but occasionally have some with tuna or unagi (which is cooked eel). I would never risk eating raw freshwater fish.

Raw shellfish seems very popular as far as I can tell. I hate it, though like sushi.

[quote]to be safe we should all have our jaws wired shut and drink Ensure for the rest of our lives

Or just cook your food. Don't be so hyperbolic.

I've given up eating at any Asian eatery anywhere; the hygienic practices are bad, among other things.

R37, Cat got your tongue?

Ensure is too high in sugar and fat to be healthy for most people.

Most US sushi is brokered by The Unification Church (i.e. The Moonies).

I've never thought about any risks outside of mercury - I guess ignorance is bliss. Now you've ruined one of my favorite foods. BOOOOO!!

But saved your life R41. You are welcome.

It's not technically sushi I guess, but I tend to get cooked/poached salmon rolls and mock crab rolls. Really tasty.

[quote]Raw fish has a lot of worm.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

R39 the amount of sugar and fats is not enough to kill you and YOU WON'T GET CANCER.

Salmon is just as bad. Smoking it does not kill it anymore than lemon juice does to Sushi.

Cook with heat is the only sure way to kill worms.

One theory is that Julius Caesar's seizures were due to worms from eating pork in Egypt while courting Cleopatra. Apparently, everybody who could afford to eat pork at the time and place had worms.

I dont eat salmon sushi since it is prone to parasites. I rather die from mercury. Tuna suhi ftw

Lets take a look inside your stomach shall we?

I used to eat sushi but then there were all those stories in the news about hundreds of people getting intestinal parasites and hepatitis and other horrible diseases from it.

It's like an epidemic!! I mean I don't understand how they continue to sell it with all those people getting sick and almost dying from eating sushi.

So no one I know eats it. Certainly not anyone with manners.

We don't have sex either, because of all the STDs you can get. I mean rimming? Hello Gardia!! And that's it. Your life is over.

I lived in Thailand for years.

I heard the worst stories...a woman told me about her lover being opened up on the operating table, his liver teeming with flukes and the surgeons sewing him up again to die basically.

R33 I bought the geiger counter on Amazon and it tests for cesium 137 levels and radiation seiverts

I'm stunned at how many people mention hepatitis.

There have been vaccines for Hepatitis A and B for years. Hepatitis C is only from blood.

It won't protect you from parasites. But it will allow you to eat oysters with more assurance.

Clean as in neat and tidy, not clean as in radiation free.

E.g. A Japanese sushi place operates properly, a Chinese "sushi" place is basically a cheap ass shithole full of a bunch of dumb fucks who don't know what they're doing.

Oh, and Korean people, GET YOUR FUCKING PSEUDO-FOOD OFF OF THE MENUS IN SUSHI PLACES. You can save it for your get-over-the-decapitations-meeting at your local "kim-bahp" place. Enjoy this complementary history text. *motions the Koreans away*

I never wanted to eat sushi or anything raw until I moved to Japan and ate it almost everyday from the supermarket after work. It tastes really good there and was inexpensive.

The Japanese have the highest life expectancy in the world and over 50,000 centenarians so I don't think sushi is as scary as some people think.

I don't live there anymore so I just eat it once every few months.

r54 as someone who has lived in both Japan, China and Korea, your comment made me crack up!

Koreans are the disaster of the Northern Asia area. Pigs.

[quote]the amount of sugar and fats is not enough to kill you and YOU WON'T GET CANCER.

Did anyone else read this in Rosie O'Donnell's voice?

I have a compromised immune system, so I'm forbidden to eat it. But this thread is so gross that now I'm thankful I can't eat it

Meh. Everything is discovered to be "toxic" eventually... Hell, our soil where we get our veggies is often toxic.

You live, you eat and then you die.. might as well have a fun go of it.

R30 Lots of people eat raw oysters. I'm 45, and 90% of my friends eat raw oysters.

You must be in some hick, backward part of the country. Carl's Jr. is haute cuisine to you, but there are places that really prize good food.

R55 after Fukushima that will change dramatically

I skimmed this thread, so this may have already been posted, but the horrifying x-ray images are from a pt who contracted a parasitic infection from RAW PORK not sushi, which is to say that this sushi scare story is a HOAX.

That hamachi hand roll is probably fine. However, you should still avoid pork tartare.

I only eat small batch artisanal sushi to support local economy, from little fishing village Fukushima.

I don't like sushi, but I do like my steak tartare.

I assume the same hideous risks apply to anyone foolish enough to eat raw pussy.

I like both meat and fish well done, though I've learned that I have to order "medium well" at restaurants or else the chef incinerates it just to show me what a cunt I am.

Thank you, Datalounge, for throwing a constant flux of tapeworm infestations, blackhead removals and repulsively fat Redneckfrauen on to the front page where everybody HAS to view them, all day, every day.

IT MAKES LIFE SO MUCH BETTER!

Dear God I hope I don't have parasites. Since yesterday morning I've an ache in my stomach, cramping, and loose stool after eating. Its never lasted this long without explanation. I don't eat sushi though. Why won't alcohol kill worms in your stomach? Worms I don't want worms.

Can you lose weight if you get the worms at least?

Yes R70, you can lose weight with worm infection. In fact, at some point around the turn of the 20th century, diet pills contained Tapeworm eggs that magically helped people lose weight. Magic weight loss pills. What really happens is that the tapeworm would grow inside of you and consume all the food you put into your stomach. The only problem is, worms keep growing in size as long as you feed them.

R63, Worms are worms, even if the X-ray is from another food source, its still a guy infected with worms from raw food. Raw fish is the highest infestation rate since most people do not consume raw pork, frogs, or snakes.

Im sorry this would go in the trash if I found worms in it. This bitch thinks it delicious.

This "chef" makes Tapeworm Sushi! Bon Appétit!

I've eaten sushi with no problem for years.

Fugu, on the the other hand…

R26 - I made the comparison between climate change and flash freezing because they are both based upon science. It's very simple. Identify the potential threats and determine if flash freezing as required by the FDA prevents a food borne illness. It does.

Examples of what happens in nature don't apply in this case.

It's basic food science.

EWWWWW....no.

Thank goodness, I haven't eaten Sushi in over 10 years. I just didn't want to chance my health.

Yeah, of course the Fukushima incident as well.

I don't eat raw oysters as well. I have taken the shots to prevent for Hep B. It's a series of 3 shots, taken once a month.

I don't eat pork either. I rarely eat meat. Just chicken if ever.

So hotdogs then?

A big problem at present is such a high percentage of people are on maintenance doses of antacids that the natural protection against parasites, the normal low stomach PH, is not there. When the body senses protein intake, unless medicated to not do so, it increases acid production, as meat is what generally has parasites that could infect us.. Our stomach acid is more to kill parasites than to digest the food.

R80 - hadn't thought about that. I take antacid nightly, and eat sushi all the time. Scary.

You gays will stick your tongue up a guy's ass and you're worried about worms?

Live in fear. It is the only way to happiness.

What about 🥩 if it’s not fully cooked?

Most sushi restaurants make non-sushi rolls on the same counters as the raw fish, with the same knives. So if there really is a hygiene problem in a restaurant then I'dd rather not eat any kind of roll. I don't like sushi so I usually got the cucumber avocado roll or the Philadelphia roll, but it's basically made right in front of you on the same counter. That particular restaurant has been open over 20 years with no issues & practically everyone I know has eaten there. After Fukushima, they changed some of their suppliers and dropped a lot of menu items.

R16, where are you? are you ok now? sorry to hear...

No, i haven't eaten in at least a decade. mostly coz the sea is sooo polluted and of course after the nuclear incident in Japan, nobody is telling the truth about it.

There are more dead zones in the sea now.

hey, what about the microwave? does it really zap all the nutrients?

Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis) and the similar wild game brain wasting diseases that are now found in wild deer and elk are very much like the untreatable, fatal human brain-wasting Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (Human Spongiform Encephalitis). These terrible brain-destroying diseases are caused by a prion, smaller than a virus, that cannot be killed by any conventional cooking methods.

(Yes, spongiform means it turns your brain into a sponge.)

R63 he's got a small pp

I tried really hard to like sushi over the years but it didn't work. I just don't like it. I tried using condiments, or drinking alcohol beforehand, thinking it might help. But it didn't.

When it first came to the US it was quite a fad and cool people ate it. I wanted to be cool. But I never liked fish. I'll eat fish and chips, but that's it. I like shrimp and scallops, but not crab. I'm not crazy about lobster, except in bisque.

Wish I liked it

Virtually all long-term sushi eaters are found to have parasites.

NO BECAUSE IT'S ALL RADIATED FROM FUKUSHIMA LEAKAGE!!!!! I got thyroid cancer in 2015

R93, are you in CA? hope you're ok now. hang tough!

R94-am in Oregon-Let me be clear I AM A NON-SMOKER-I got cancer in 2015; had entire thyroid plus 4 throat and neck nodes removed. Am cancer free NOW but could return. I used to be a big fish and sushi eater. Tx

A family friend works on, I guess, a tuna farm at sea in South Australia. All the best fish is frozen and send to Japan daily. It doesn't matter if the head of the tuna is off, so long as the body is beautiful, the Japanese buy it.

A Fresno man who enjoyed eating raw salmon went to the emergency room where he told doctors to treat him for worms after making the gross discovery of a tapeworm while recently going to the bathroom.

Dr. Kenny Bahn told the story of his patient at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno on the "This Won't Hurt A Bit" podcast. Bahn said the man came in complaining of bloody diarrhea, but told doctors "I really want to get treated for worms."

Bahn said he was skeptical of the patient at first until the man showed him proof.

"I take out a toilet paper roll, and wrapped around it of course is what looks like this giant, long tapeworm," Bahn said on the podcast.

When the parasitic worm was unraveled and laid out in the emergency room, the tapeworm measured 5 and a half feet long, which is the height of Bahn.

The man discovered the worm when he felt it wiggling out as he sat on the toilet. Banh said the man thought his "guts were coming out," until he started to remove the worm and it started moving.

Bahn said the patient was relieved to discover it was a tapeworm. The man was given a pill for treatment that would expel the rest of the worm from his body.

The patient swore to Bahn that he hadn't been out of the country, but he did eat raw salmon almost daily. The CDC reports that there has been an outbreak of Japanese tapeworms in Pacific-caught salmon.

After dealing with the tapeworm, the man said he'll no longer eat salmon.

You've convinced me. No more poke for me.

What were your symptoms, r95?

Can I still eat blue steak?

that is the most disgusting thing I've ever read! gross! a tapeworm from eating sushi!!!!!

i'm gonna puke, he said he thought his guts were coming out but it was the tape worm and it was over 5 ft long!!!!!!! eeeekkkkk!

I’m glad I hate the taste of raw fish. It’s like my body knows it’s bad for me.

Everybody has worms however the type of worm and size of infestation differ obviously. Most people will never know they have worms and most only find out if they do parasite cleanses or have compromised immune systems or other health issues. Raw fish/meat isn't the only danger. Most fluke parasites are ingested from raw vegetables. Parasite infection happens from touching a dirty door knob, drinking glass, hand etc. Order some parasite killing supplements and you will see. I was skeptical and a friend convinced me to take humaworm suplements and what I found in the toilet was like a monster movie. I went to an infectious diseases doctor and I did infact have flukes and whipworm infection for god knows how many years and I don't eat sushi.

"Do you still eat Sushi?"

Not since Fukushima. I prefer to glow in the dark under my own power, though preferably because of whom I may be with at that particular time.

R103, yikes! do you have any now?

i'm scared to find out!