worms in leftover sauce

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would have been so much cheaper to fly to Costa Rica or Panama and gotten checked and bought medicine there. I went backpacking in the Amazon region with a cousin for a month then went to visit relatives in Costa Rica. I started getting diarrhea in Costa Rica and my aunt immediately had me take a stool sample and we took it to a lab to get checked. I did have something (it has been a while (25 years ago) so now I can't even remember what parasite I had but the medication was of course cheap.

This is why I never use the potty on planes

[Anonymous]

In high school I worked in customer service at a grocery store. The number of people returning fish with worms in it was astounding. I don't know how people can eat fish to this day. It's RIDDLED with worms.

[Anonymous]

OP again. I am very real, sad to say. (But my doctor has since told me we don't need to order the expensive lab test, just the ones that Medicare will cover, and we will probably get enough info from that.)

To the farmer: I am incredibly surprised, too, just as I was very surprised to see 1 cm worms (or worm-like creatures) in the sauce. But I found some weird soft pod things in my stool too. Regarding cysticercosis, according to the CDC, "A pig eats the [tapeworm] eggs in the stool. The eggs develop into larvae inside the pig and form cysts (called cysticercosis) in the pig's muscles or other tissues. The infection with the cysts is called cysticercosis. Humans who eat undercooked or raw infected pork swallow the cysts in the meat. The larvae then come out of their cysts in the human gut and develop into adult tapeworms, completing the cycle."

When humans have the tapeworms in their intestines, it is called taeniasis. When pigs (or humans) have the larval cysts of the tapeworm, it is called cysticercosis. It seems I ingested larval cysts which then dissolved in my stomach acid, releasing tapeworm larvae. They seem to be about 1 cm, not that I was poking around too much. But without treatment they will grow to adult tapeworms in 2 months, at which time they would be several feet long or even much longer, and they release large numbers of segments and eggs, and it is even grosser than I already thought.

So... I don't have adult tapeworms yet. I have newly-released larvae. I wish I knew for sure, because the preferred treatment is different for taeniasis than for most of the other intestinal parasites, but I'll know in a few days and I think/hope the medication I'm starting will still work.

Sorry. Btw I spent hours sanitizing the kitchen and everything I might have touched within it in recent days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In high school I worked in customer service at a grocery store. The number of people returning fish with worms in it was astounding. I don't know how people can eat fish to this day. It's RIDDLED with worms.

It’s pretty gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, laughing about the last two comments. So sorry and embarrassed to have written the most disgusting thread on DCUM!

As to the porta-potty, I know it seems a bit crazy but it works. I am not a miniature adult, though I am on the small side (5'2", 118 lbs). I am in my upper 60s, so yes, it's probably a bit unusual. [/b]I used it when traveling (for peeing) during the first part of the pandemic when I didn't want to go in any public restrooms. At first (in my car in the pandemic) it was a bit hard to crouch on it as it sat on the floor behind the driver's seat. Then I realized I could just use the smaller bowl part, rather than the whole thing, with a towel on the driver's seat and another over my lap, and just slip the bowl under me, pee, and slip it out again, pull up my clothes, pour out the pee in the dog walking area, wipe it out and go on my way[b]. So this morning, in comparison, it was actually very easy since I had a whole bathroom and didn't have to go through contortions to sit on it.

As to sanitizing everything, I am being very conscientious, but a PP has raised some things I hadn't thought of, and I will disinfect the refrigerator and the kitchen and the bathroom as thoroughly as I can today. Luckily I have been using a bathroom all to myself and will continue to do so. I always wash my hands thoroughly with soap and water, with extra care when I have diarrhea, so I feel okay about that.

As I've been reading about parasites, I've learned that some are more easily transmissible through unsanitary handling practices (including not washing hands carefully), while others are more likely to be transmitted through undercooked food. It seems that most of the ones I've read about that are contracted through undercooked food are not likely to be spread through unsanitary hygiene, but there are some that can be spread by both routes, and since I don't know what I've got, I do agree I need to sanitize everything and probably isolate as much as I can.

I would think I could wash my underwear in hot water and not throw it out! But whatever. Getting new underwear is very cheap compared to the insanely expensive doses of this anti-parasitic drug. (It's also in short supply. I had to spend mega-bucks on a few doses at one pharmacy ($70 per dose! that's with the discount coupon!) until another pharmacy can stock it tomorrow at "only" about $20 a dose (with discount coupon.) And I have just found out that Medicare is not going to cover the cost of the special anti-parasitic lab test, which means my secondary Medicare supplement isn't going to cover it either, so that will set me back $850.

But as I took my first super-expensive dose and bid my first "good riddance" to these invaders of my body, of course my overwhelming sentiment was that it will be worth whatever it costs to get back to my usual state of health.

I agree that I think OP has a weird fetish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, laughing about the last two comments. So sorry and embarrassed to have written the most disgusting thread on DCUM!

As to the porta-potty, I know it seems a bit crazy but it works. I am not a miniature adult, though I am on the small side (5'2", 118 lbs). I am in my upper 60s, so yes, it's probably a bit unusual. I used it when traveling (for peeing) during the first part of the pandemic when I didn't want to go in any public restrooms. At first (in my car in the pandemic) it was a bit hard to crouch on it as it sat on the floor behind the driver's seat. Then I realized I could just use the smaller bowl part, rather than the whole thing, with a towel on the driver's seat and another over my lap, and just slip the bowl under me, pee, and slip it out again, pull up my clothes, pour out the pee in the dog walking area, wipe it out and go on my way. So this morning, in comparison, it was actually very easy since I had a whole bathroom and didn't have to go through contortions to sit on it.

As to sanitizing everything, I am being very conscientious, but a PP has raised some things I hadn't thought of, and I will disinfect the refrigerator and the kitchen and the bathroom as thoroughly as I can today. Luckily I have been using a bathroom all to myself and will continue to do so. I always wash my hands thoroughly with soap and water, with extra care when I have diarrhea, so I feel okay about that.

As I've been reading about parasites, I've learned that some are more easily transmissible through unsanitary handling practices (including not washing hands carefully), while others are more likely to be transmitted through undercooked food. It seems that most of the ones I've read about that are contracted through undercooked food are not likely to be spread through unsanitary hygiene, but there are some that can be spread by both routes, and since I don't know what I've got, I do agree I need to sanitize everything and probably isolate as much as I can.

I would think I could wash my underwear in hot water and not throw it out! But whatever. Getting new underwear is very cheap compared to the insanely expensive doses of this anti-parasitic drug. (It's also in short supply. I had to spend mega-bucks on a few doses at one pharmacy ($70 per dose! that's with the discount coupon!) until another pharmacy can stock it tomorrow at "only" about $20 a dose (with discount coupon.) And I have just found out that Medicare is not going to cover the cost of the special anti-parasitic lab test, which means my secondary Medicare supplement isn't going to cover it either, so that will set me back $850.

But as I took my first super-expensive dose and bid my first "good riddance" to these invaders of my body, of course my overwhelming sentiment was that it will be worth whatever it costs to get back to my usual state of health.

The visual on this....

[Anonymous]

It’s actually ok to cook meat from frozen:

Raw or cooked meat, poultry or casseroles can be cooked or reheated from the frozen state. However, it will take approximately one and a half times as long to cook. For example, if fresh meat takes one hour to cook, the same meat cooked frozen would take 1 1/2 hours.Mar 24, 2023
https://ask.usda.gov › article › Can...

[Anonymous]

I call BS on this entire thread.

[Anonymous]

i am very dismayed to learn about worms in fish and seafood. i relied on things like salmon to get protein because i am not a fan of most meat.

[Anonymous]

I posted earlier about having had tapeworms as a kid (twice!) when we lived in a developing country. So revolting but not uncommon there. Surprised the meds are so expensive though. I'm sure we had some rudimentary med that was cheap but it worked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I posted earlier about having had tapeworms as a kid (twice!) when we lived in a developing country. So revolting but not uncommon there. Surprised the meds are so expensive though. I'm sure we had some rudimentary med that was cheap but it worked.

Flagyl probably.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I call BS on this entire thread.

You mean pig not bull.

[Anonymous]

This thread makes me want to go vegan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i am very dismayed to learn about worms in fish and seafood. i relied on things like salmon to get protein because i am not a fan of most meat.

SAME. And sushi! Does that have worms too?