Monsters Inside Me

Season 3

TV-PG

Part horror movie, part medical detective story, find out what happens when people fall prey to an infection from a parasite, those nasty microscopic creatures found in water, soil and even in the air. Victims' stories are retold, including how doctors and scientists attempt to unravel each case before it's too late. Biologist Dan Riskin, assisted by doctors and experts who witnessed each case, leads the scientific discussion about each parasite.

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10 Episodes

My Child Will Only Eat Cat Food
E1
My Child Will Only Eat Cat FoodA toddler who is started eating cat food is diagnosed with toxacara. A man suffers complications from diverticulitis when ESBL E. coli escape through his perforated colon. A New Mexico man is infected with bubonic plague.
Something's Eating My Son Inside Out
E2
Something's Eating My Son Inside OutA teenage boy starts complaining of nasal pain and fever after a swim in the lake. It eventually turns out that he has been infected by a rare but flesh-eating bacteria called Chromobacterium. A young actress starts to get mastitis while breastfeeding her baby. A teenage college student gets infected by a fungus called Blastomyces.
My Face Eating Parasite
E3
My Face Eating ParasiteA man suddenly grows a pimple that seems minor at first, but eventually oozes and makes his face swollen. A young man that works at a homeless shelter suddenly starts to feel a sharp pain in his back. At first is seems like a simple back injury, but it eventually gets so sharp it spreads to arms and legs. A school-aged boy starts to get a headache after a visit to a friend's house. It doesn't seem too bad at first, but he eventually develops a fever and lays unconscious. It later turns out he is suffering from a condition called Valley Fever.
My Daughter Is Losing Her Mind
E4
My Daughter Is Losing Her MindAn ovarian teratoma causes a woman to hallucinate and exhibit strange behavior; A young boy is infected with a flu virus that attacks his muscles causing the tissue to break down; A man having gastrointestinal problems is suffering from blastocystis hominis parasite.
Something's Eating My Dreams
E5
Something's Eating My DreamsA teenager's hand is infected by a bacterium from her family's aquarium; A man aspirates the pull tab from a soft drink can; A young man has meningitis from rat lung-worms that have traveled to his brain.
A Monster's Taking My Baby
E6
A Monster's Taking My BabyA pregnant teacher is blindsided by excruciating bouts of diarrhea, and to her horror she soon finds blood in the toilet. Can doctors find the invader, and save her baby's life before it's too late? Then, a truck driver nearly goes blind from a parasite.
I Coughed Up Worms!
E7
I Coughed Up Worms!A pregnant woman goes into a coma when she is infected with acinetobacter baumannii; A young woman has roundworms living in her lungs; A 15-year-old girl suffering for weeks from headaches is later found to have had rabies.
My Brain Has Been Hijacked
E8
My Brain Has Been HijackedA 1-year old boy who survived a premature birth starts resisting food, suffering a fever, and coughing up blood. After being rushed to the emergency room, the doctors find out that the cause was the boy swallowing a button battery, which burned a hole in his esophagus. A 21-year-old college student from Canada starts suffering a headache that lasts longer than it should. And soon, she starts getting hallucinations, her head starts twitching, she forgets what her age is, and she even starts having grand mal seizures. While resting in the preparation room for brain surgery, she suddenly gets up and yells, then passes out. Eventually, it is discovered that she has an abscess in her brain that caused an infection caused by Streptococcus milleri, which was caused by getting her tongue pierced. A mother/wife starts to get a headache, and soon she also experiences fever, body aches, dizziness, and foul-smelled urine. Her doctor soon discovers that she has an infection called Dengue fever.
You Left What Inside Me?
E9
You Left What Inside Me?A toddler is infected with meningococcal disease caused by a bacterium; After surgery for an abdominal tumor, doctors accidentally leave a 13-inch retractor inside a patient; A seven-year-old boy is infected with a brain amoeba.
Killer in My Neck
E10
Killer in My NeckA young art student has a clogged jugular vein causing Lemierre's syndrome; A young woman suffers from Lyme disease and babesiosis; A woman has recurring infections after a sponge is left behind from a previous biopsy.