Listen
Print: What are the symptoms of echinococcosis?
Echinococcosis may not produce any symptoms for 10 or 20 years because the cysts grow slowly. When the symptoms appear, they can include:
- Abdominal pain
- Chest pain
- Cough that won't go away
- Unintended weight loss
- Weakness
- Jaundice (yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes)
- Fever
- Bloody stools
- Headache
- Seizures
Next: Causes & Risk Factors
Source
Echinococcosis--An Emerging Parasite in the Immigrant Population by M Chrieki, M.D. (American Family Physician September 01, 2002, http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020901/817.html)
Written by familydoctor.org editorial staff
Reviewed/Updated: 01/10
Created: 04/03
