7.6/108 votes#1 - My Daughter's Going Crazy
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/2014
A teenage girl begins having strange mood swings from anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis; an elderly mother gets chills, hand numbness, wrist pain, and oozing blisters from Vibrio vulnificus she got from being pricked by a crab while making a stew; an athletic military veteran from the Afghan war competing in reality shows returns home from Fiji feeling hotness, a pinching sensation in her arms and toes, and hallucinations from rat lungworm she got from eating a slug in a reality show in the jungle
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- 7.4/105 votes
#2 - West Nile Attack!
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/2014
A 6-year-old boy suffers a nasty cough, fever, and vomiting from valley fever; a newlywed husband becomes paralyzed from the waist down due to the West Nile virus; an international journalist suffers extreme stomach cramps, night sweats, chills, nausea, and fever from Entamoeba histolytica.
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- 6.5/106 votes
#3 - A Menace in My Own Backyard
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/2014
A 23-year-old athlete/construction worker suffers multiple grand mal seizures and high fevers from eastern equine encephalitis; a hard-edged tough guy suffers severe stomach pains and loss of appetite from accidentally swallowing a grill bristle; a 17-year-old cheerleader who recently got her driver's license suffers a swollen, itchy eye and excruciating eye pains from Acanthamoeba keratitis she got from contact lenses.
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- 7.5/106 votes
#4 - The Killer in the Lake
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2014
A contractor gets hit in the head with a tool, and later starts getting a pounding headache, dizziness, spotty vision, and nausea from having a nail punctured into his brain; a football player in college gets extreme headaches, a stuffy nose, and blurred vision from Aspergillus fungi entering his brain; in 2012, an 8-year-old boy suffers constant vomiting, fatigue, seizures, and eventually dies from amoebic meningitis after being infected with Naegleria fowleri.
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- 7.6/105 votes
#5 - There's a Maggot Crawling in My What?
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2014
A Canadian science-lover and traveler suffers a painful lesion caused by botfly larvae; a video game programmer gets suffers from constant vomiting and coughing. When doctors find a large mass in his chest, it is discovered that he has histoplasmosis, which was contracted from inhaling bat droppings in a cave; a 15-year-old girl gets an extremely sore throat, a headache, nausea, and body pains from Lemierre's syndrome.
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- 8.0/105 votes
#6 - Vampire Parasites Attack
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/2014
A war veteran suffers fatigue, high fevers, night sweats, strange rashes, bloody urine and jaundice from babesiosis; a 15-month-old baby girl suffers fever, dry mouth, vomiting and bloody diarrhea from E. coli O157:H7, whom she got from drinking raw milk; a biologist suffers extreme fatigue, back pains, anxiety, and vertigo from Aspergillus-contaminated breast implants
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- 8.4/105 votes
#7 - A Holiday in the Hospital
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 12/4/2014
The second episode of the series to be Christmas-themed – a saleswoman gets a stabbing headaches and a constant burning sensation in her right eye from a Dirofilaria immitis worm that is in her eye; a store manager gets stomach pains, fatigue, nausea, vomiting and even a constantly moving stomach from a surgical sponge being left and forming a hole in his colon; a grandmother working in the forest service gets abdomen pains, fatigue, and pneumonia from Strongyloides stercoralis worms invading her intestines.
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- 7.8/105 votes
#8 - My Body Is Rotting
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 12/11/2014
A teenager gets coughing, shoulder pains, dizziness, and nausea from Cryptococcus gattii fungi invading her lungs; a saleswoman gets extreme pain in her breast from a brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) bite; a religious youth organizer gets swelling of multiple parts of the body over the course of three years from the Loa loa worm.
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- NaN/100 votes
#9 - The Brain Colonizer
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/2014
A Canadian 13-month-old toddler gets breathing difficulties and mild vomiting from accidentally swallowing a button battery (for what the doctors originally thought was a coin); a college freshwoman gets migraines, nausea, on-and-off blindness, hallucination-like partial seizures, repulsive taste and two lesions in her brain from infection with Taenia solium; in 2008, a 6-year-old girl gets a headache, a rash, high fevers, and dies from Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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- 7.0/107 votes
#10 - I Smell Like Death
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/2014
A 29-year-old man gets tooth pain and almost dies of necrotizing fasciitis caused by the bacteria Streptococcus intermedius and Peptostreptococcus; a female financial adviser gets fatigue, joint pain, mental confusion, hair loss, and muscle weakness for over three years from Lyme disease; a 7-year-old boy gets a loss of appetite, abdominal pains, a fever, diarrhea, constant vomiting, and weight loss from Cryptosporidium.
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The Best Episodes of Monsters Inside Me Season 5
Every episode of Monsters Inside Me Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Monsters Inside Me Season 5!
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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Animal Planet
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"My Daughter's Going Crazy" is the best rated episode of "Monsters Inside Me" season 5. It scored 7.6/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/9/2014. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "West Nile Attack!".