Beware! 14-Yr-Old Loses 22 Litres of Blood to Hookworms in 2 Years

The doctors “could see multiple hookworms buried in the boy’s small intestine and were seen actively sucking blood.”

Hookworms sucked 22 litres of blood from the small intestine of a 14-year-old boy in the last 2 years before being spotted. They’ve finally been pushed out via a deworming therapy at a city hospital in Delhi.

The boy was brought to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SRGH) in August last year with complaints of passage of blood in his stool.

The child was suffering from iron deficiency anaemia for the last two years. He was being managed with repeated blood transfusions and received 50 units (22 litres) of blood transfusions in the last two years.

Anil Arora, Chairperson of Gasreroenterology Department, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital