Intestinal worms. . .I nearly passed out

[Anonymous]

This is horrifying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pinworms are hard to get rid of.

Clean every inch of your home. Wash everything in hot water and hot dryer. Bag up whatever can't be washed. Launder night clothes and sheets every day (don't shake the sheets). Shower morning and night, morning is most important and get your bottom cleaned real well. Then be sure and clean your fingernails well. Rub vaseline around the anus area at night to trap the eggs and keep them from becoming airborne. (Yes you can get pinworms through the air!) Open up the curtains and let sunlight in.

Everyone in the house needs to take the Pin-X and then again in week or so. Possibly again.

Eat pumpkin seeds and pineapple. Stay away from sugary and carb loaded things that will feed the worms. If you have constipation, make sure you take something to make you go. Tea tree oil suppositories are available on Amazon.

Pumpkin seeds you say? This is the Larla-level insider reference point at Jezebel. Everyone knows this story. It's something you'll never forget.

From: Jezebel (http://jezebel.com/5664007/10-of-the-the-grossest-stories-youll-ever-read)

The Pumpkin Seed Story, by Becky

My junior year of undergrad, I had a deplorable diet. Every now and then [the convenience store near my dorm] would get packages of pumpkin seeds, which I loved to eat while writing papers. One day when I was shopping I noticed that they had restocked. Since they were prone to running out quickly, I decided to go ahead and buy all of the pumpkin seeds they had. This in itself wasn't bad. What was bad was
that in a fury of writing deadlines, I ate all of them. I had pumpkin seeds for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, as a midnight snack while doing research.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The mouth thing cannot be true. Can a medical professional weigh in please and hopefully debunk. I would have PTSD for sure.

This parasite comes out of your mouth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongylonema_pulchrum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The mouth thing cannot be true. Can a medical professional weigh in please and hopefully debunk. I would have PTSD for sure.

Professor of Helminthology here. The mouth thing is unfortunately very real. It happens most frequently in your sleep, within a few hours of taking the medication.
We usually recommend your spouse stay awake next to you with a pair of chopsticks to grab the worm and pull it out, in case it changes its mind. Please don't use tweezers, as this can bisect the worm, making it very hard, and unpleasant, to remove the rest of the beast.

The mouth is actually not the worst-case scenario: occasionally they will try to emerge from a man's penis, a singularly unpleasant experience given their barbs.

[Anonymous]

Don't click on that link! Nooooo.

[Anonymous]

I AM GOING TO HAVE NIGHTMARES TONIGHT.

/puke

[Anonymous]

Oh. my. god. My kids are currently destroying the bathroom as I read this thread, but I cannot look away. Worms crawling out of the mouth?

And on the swimming in lakes thing, I already didn't do that since at 6th grade outdoor ed, a bunch of boys jumped into the lake. And when they climbed out, they were covered in leeches. But that's NOTHING compared to the mouthworms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The mouth thing cannot be true. Can a medical professional weigh in please and hopefully debunk. I would have PTSD for sure.

Professor of Helminthology here. The mouth thing is unfortunately very real. It happens most frequently in your sleep, within a few hours of taking the medication.
We usually recommend your spouse stay awake next to you with a pair of chopsticks to grab the worm and pull it out, in case it changes its mind. Please don't use tweezers, as this can bisect the worm, making it very hard, and unpleasant, to remove the rest of the beast.

The mouth is actually not the worst-case scenario: occasionally they will try to emerge from a man's penis, a singularly unpleasant experience given their barbs.

Now that would be true love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't click on that link! Nooooo.

I must not click, I must not click, I must not click...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had pinworms in my early 20s. At first I thought all the little white things on my inner thighs were just tiny pieces of lint or cotton from my underwear. Imagine my horror when those things started MOVING!

I think I caught it early because I was able to get rid of it pretty quickly. The doc suspects undercooked pork from my date at Benihana's. It was a really long time before I ate pork again.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The mouth thing cannot be true. Can a medical professional weigh in please and hopefully debunk. I would have PTSD for sure.

Professor of Helminthology here. The mouth thing is unfortunately very real. It happens most frequently in your sleep, within a few hours of taking the medication.
We usually recommend your spouse stay awake next to you with a pair of chopsticks to grab the worm and pull it out, in case it changes its mind. Please don't use tweezers, as this can bisect the worm, making it very hard, and unpleasant, to remove the rest of the beast.

The mouth is actually not the worst-case scenario: occasionally they will try to emerge from a man's penis, a singularly unpleasant experience given their barbs.

I'm thankful I'm single because I'm pretty sure there is no one or thing on this planet I could love enough to 1. Do this for. EVER and 2. Get over it enough to EVER kiss/have sex with someone who I chopsticked an intestinal worm out of their sleeping mouth.

[Anonymous]

I have to say that this is the first DCUM post I have been too chicken to read. I have not read it. Just wanted you all to know that, but don't reply because I'm not coming back--too scared!

And OP, just want to say whatever happened, I know with modern medicine you or your kid or dog or whatever happened is going to be ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to say that this is the first DCUM post I have been too chicken to read. I have not read it. Just wanted you all to know that, but don't reply because I'm not coming back--too scared!

And OP, just want to say whatever happened, I know with modern medicine you or your kid or dog or whatever happened is going to be ok.

I have read it but I will not click on that link.

[Anonymous]

You know I am not going to be able to resist clicking that link. It's almost like the link to the blackhead that got pulled out that was the size of a piece of cauliflower....

[Anonymous]

This thread needs to be included in the next "best of DCUM" roundup.