Home Alone actor MacAulay Culkin has revealed how he became seriously ill following a recent trip to Thailand.
Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, MacAulay said how he was in Thailand working on a movie with friend Seth Green, when he caught a stomach worm.
He said he became ill after staying in a beach bungalow on Koh Phi Phi and blamed contact with a cat as the source of the worm.
MacAulay explained that when he arrived at the bungalow this cat just turned up and being a cat lover, he let it stay at the bungalow and even sleep with him in his bed.
The actor said he only realised he had the worm after he had returned to the United States where he said he had “a lot of fatigue” and that his bowel movements “weren’t all that great”.
He said his condition became so bad he was sleeping twenty hours a day and would only wake up to go to the bathroom.
According to health site WebMD there are a number of worms or intestinal parasites that humans can catch from cats.
Amongst the most common are hookworm and roundworm, the symptoms of which include chronic fatigue, nausea and diarrhea and which if untreated can lead to serious health problems including blindness.
Also in the interview, a healthy looking MacAulay Culkin revealed how he is dating US actress Brenda Song, who he said is of Thai-Laotian origin.
(Source:-ThaiVisaNews)