Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

370. The Parasite Delusion (2021x370)

Uitzenddatum: Mrt 04, 2021

Last week, we talked about if eating papaya seeds could rid your body of parasites (spoiler: it can’t). But being concerned about having parasites is not new. We continue the conversation by looking into the phenomenon of Ekbom’s syndrome, or delusional parasitosis, a difficult disorder to both manage and treat.