Intestinal worms. . .I nearly passed out

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Anonymous wrote:Well, this is a reminder to wash your produce--especially your organic produce--very well.

why the organic one in particular?

Well the intent of organic farming is to use less pesticides, so ergo, organic produce is more likely to contain parasites/parasite eggs. Some organic farming practices such as using untreated human manure fertilizer (legal in Canada and Mexico and likely other parts of the world) can transmit parasite eggs (often microscopic) to the harvested produce.

Well, if you really would like to be grossed out, google the following terms: Ascaris (males can reach 1 foot in length), Ascaris lifecyle, and Ascaris anesthesia.

Nooooo please. I buy organic everything. WTF

Organic doesn't use fewer pesticides. It uses different pesticides. But they often aren't as effective and require many more applications. So, bugs.

Yes, you are correct. Sorry for being unclear and thanks for the clarification.

To be fair with fresh organic produce, the farmers/grocery people have selected out produce that looks clearly bad (though that wouldn't help prevent microscopic parasite eggs). However there's no way they spend the time to select produce as carefully for things like say organic tomato sauce/apple sauce. Bleech. But on the bright side, I'm sure processing renders all bugs/eggs noninfectious.

Oh so, does anyone still think that bookworms are cute? Those cartoon apples with cartoon worms coming out of them? Lowly the worm from the Richard Scarry books?

[Anonymous]

My butt was itching quite bad a few weeks ago, thought it was just the toilet paper... Terrified to take the anti-parasitic...

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Anonymous wrote:I've had two parasitic worms. 1 was expelled like you describe. For the other, the medication I took made it an unlivable environment but the worm wouldn't die. Instead it would make its way to the nearest exist , crawl out, and die. You can imagine my horror when DH woke me up freakingiut as the worm crawled out of my mouth.

OH MY GOD!!! That is the stuff of nightmares!

FWIW, I had worms when I was little (like 4 or 5). Gross... but I remember digging in there at night due to itching then watching them crawl on my finger. My mom didn't believe me for the longest time, but I remember finding out I probably got them from hours of being outside barefoot. Never gone out barefoot again, nor will my children.

OMG, you're an idiot. You did not get pinworms from walking around outside while barefoot. Pinworms are INGESTED

Maybe she's talking about hookworms.

[Anonymous]

Crap. I have hemorrhoids. How do I know if its hemorrhoid itch or WORM ITCH?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is going down the annals of dcum as the freakiest thread ever!

I see what you did there

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So I had a patient had pork tapeworms. In. His. Brain.

Surgically removed when he started seizing.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you think you got them??????

Little kids put all sorts of things in their mouths. They get pinworms if their are pinworms larvae anywhere. They then pass them on to the rest of the family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My butt was itching quite bad a few weeks ago, thought it was just the toilet paper... Terrified to take the anti-parasitic...

Eh. It makes you a little nauseous. That's it. No big deal.

[Anonymous]

I was so proud the first time DS pooped in the potty--till we saw a worm on the poop. Treated the whole family for tapeworm. It was gross and required some extra laundry, but overall not the worst thing. Luckily we caught it early so no major issues.

I live in fear it those other types of worms. Bleck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crap. I have hemorrhoids. How do I know if its hemorrhoid itch or WORM ITCH?

[phone]!

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Anonymous wrote:I was so proud the first time DS pooped in the potty--till we saw a worm on the poop. Treated the whole family for tapeworm. It was gross and required some extra laundry, but overall not the worst thing. Luckily we caught it early so no major issues.

I live in fear it those other types of worms. Bleck.

EEEEEEWWWWW!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've had two parasitic worms. 1 was expelled like you describe. For the other, the medication I took made it an unlivable environment but the worm wouldn't die. Instead it would make its way to the nearest exist , crawl out, and die. You can imagine my horror when DH woke me up freakingiut as the worm crawled out of my mouth.

OH MY GOD!!! That is the stuff of nightmares!

FWIW, I had worms when I was little (like 4 or 5). Gross... but I remember digging in there at night due to itching then watching them crawl on my finger. My mom didn't believe me for the longest time, but I remember finding out I probably got them from hours of being outside barefoot. Never gone out barefoot again, nor will my children.

OMG, you're an idiot. You did not get pinworms from walking around outside while barefoot. Pinworms are INGESTED

Maybe she's talking about hookworms.

This is PP. I WAS talking about hookworms and that's always what I've remembered my mom saying they were. Reading through this thread made me look up pinworms... they look almost identical to hookworms, so maybe they were pinworms and not hookworms after all. Still not going outside barefoot, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Crap. I have hemorrhoids. How do I know if its hemorrhoid itch or WORM ITCH?

[phone]!

get the mirror out...then you'll know for sure. Also, hemorrhoids "feel" like there is a mass back there. worms don't feel that way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've had two parasitic worms. 1 was expelled like you describe. For the other, the medication I took made it an unlivable environment but the worm wouldn't die. Instead it would make its way to the nearest exist , crawl out, and die. You can imagine my horror when DH woke me up freakingiut as the worm crawled out of my mouth.

OH MY GOD!!! That is the stuff of nightmares!

FWIW, I had worms when I was little (like 4 or 5). Gross... but I remember digging in there at night due to itching then watching them crawl on my finger. My mom didn't believe me for the longest time, but I remember finding out I probably got them from hours of being outside barefoot. Never gone out barefoot again, nor will my children.

OMG, you're an idiot. You did not get pinworms from walking around outside while barefoot. Pinworms are INGESTED

Maybe she's talking about hookworms.

This is PP. I WAS talking about hookworms and that's always what I've remembered my mom saying they were. Reading through this thread made me look up pinworms... they look almost identical to hookworms, so maybe they were pinworms and not hookworms after all. Still not going outside barefoot, though.

I've heard about the barefoot worms. Not the "any surface" worms.

[Anonymous]

will worms make you skinny? If so, bring 'em on.