Anonymous wrote:Can they spread from pets to humans?

Is the Pope Catholic?

Can they spread from pets to humans?

Anonymous wrote:
Please, please, please say that the yeast infection is not related. OP, please say that they can't get in your cooter. And thanks for sharing your test results!

Laughing. OP here. No, they don't get into your vagina. BUT, your entire digestive system gets out of control, and normal good bacteria in your gut is no match for those sneaky bastards. I am on Cultrelle (over the counter, approved by doctor), and three other medications. I should be more informed, and know the names of each, but I am whip tired, and am not going to go look them up right now.

Please, please, please say that the yeast infection is not related. OP, please say that they can't get in your cooter. And thanks for sharing your test results!

Thanks for the update, OP.

Lived in Central America from '01-'03. Never been regular since. Seriously considering buying some of that herbal wormwood stuff!

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Labs came back. I have Ascariasis, along with pinworms. (Had a pap while I was there, and also dealing with a nasty yeast infection. I haven't had that since I was 24, and I am now 43. My flora has been thrown off.)

Here's the good news. . .I didn't have debilitating symptoms, and it didn't manifest in respiratory issues. It was just a pain in my ass. (Yes, I said that.)

Doctor told me NOT to take the herbal supplements I ordered on Amazon, as it will render the treatment ineffective. Don't know why, but I am putting my faith in the hands of doctors, and staying off the parasite blogs.

Chopstick lady. . .thank you for a much needed laugh. And others, thanks for reminding me NOT to eat berries in the field, wash all my fruits and vegetables, and be diligent about not only washing hands put scrubbing under nails.

Don't know what the host of my issues was/is, but I will never eat pork again. I think I have had my fair share for this lifetime anyway.

Keep on keepin' on people.

What did the doc prescribe?

OP again. This is from Wiki, also confirmed by my doctor:

There are generally few or no symptoms. A bolus of worms may obstruct the intestine; migrating larvae may cause pneumonitis and eosinophilia. Adult worms have a life-span of 1–2 years which means that individuals may be infected all their lives as worms die and new worms are acquired.[11]

Eggs can survive potentially for 15 years and a single worm may produce 200 thousand eggs a day.[2] They maintain their position by swimming against the intestinal flow.

I offer this not to be alarmist, but just as an FYI for people who have traveled extensively outside the US. My Africa work ended nine years ago, but we did go to Haiti after that. There is no telling how long I walked around with this.

OP here. Labs came back. I have Ascariasis, along with pinworms. (Had a pap while I was there, and also dealing with a nasty yeast infection. I haven't had that since I was 24, and I am now 43. My flora has been thrown off.)

Here's the good news. . .I didn't have debilitating symptoms, and it didn't manifest in respiratory issues. It was just a pain in my ass. (Yes, I said that.)

Doctor told me NOT to take the herbal supplements I ordered on Amazon, as it will render the treatment ineffective. Don't know why, but I am putting my faith in the hands of doctors, and staying off the parasite blogs.

Chopstick lady. . .thank you for a much needed laugh. And others, thanks for reminding me NOT to eat berries in the field, wash all my fruits and vegetables, and be diligent about not only washing hands put scrubbing under nails.

Don't know what the host of my issues was/is, but I will never eat pork again. I think I have had my fair share for this lifetime anyway.

Keep on keepin' on people.

I'm not a physician, but shouldn't you save the worm sample or at least take a picture of it before you dispose/flush, so that your doctor can correctly ID it? There are various types of antihelmintics and some of them work better on certain species than others. I think in some cases, the doctor would want to test the BM for eggs. Just a thought.

Okay, I'm going to share. After all if you are still clicking on this thread, you want to know, right? About a quarter of the world's population is estimated to have Ascaris infections. So what are the symptoms?
Mayo Clinic on Ascariasis symptoms:
After you ingest the microscopic ascariasis eggs, they hatch in your small intestine and the larvae migrate through your bloodstream or lymphatic system into your lungs. At this stage, you may experience signs and symptoms similar to asthma or pneumonia, including:

Persistent cough
Shortness of breath
Wheezing
After spending six to 10 days in the lungs, the larvae travel to your throat, where you cough them up and then swallow them.

In the intestines

The larvae mature into adult worms in your small intestine, and the adult worms typically live in the intestines until they die. In mild or moderate ascariasis, the intestinal infestation can cause:

Vague abdominal pain
Nausea and vomiting
Diarrhea or bloody stools
If you have a large number of worms in your intestine, you might have:

Severe abdominal pain
Fatigue
Vomiting
Weight loss or malnutrition
A worm in your vomit or stool

Anonymous



You can get pinworms from sushi.

No you can not get pinworms for pork either. Pork and fish are a different type (not pinworm)and rare in the U.S. Fish(including sushi grade) is frozen for a few days at a certain temperature to kill parasites and pork producers eliminated the parasites in commercial pork.
This is the pinworm life cycle.

Their eggs can go airborne and infect everyone(ie classmates and family, doing the wash) in close proximity. So you breath the eggs in and in two week they are coming out your butt. Many adults do not show signs but are infected.

I only skimmed this but I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I've read some f'd up things around here, but this one is special...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So 8 year-old DD scratches her butt a lot.

Let's say I give her pills to de-worm, she poops in the toilet and sees what OP sees.

How the hell would an eight year-old react to that?!?! My guess is tht the therapy bills would be astronomical.

Not trying to be snarky, but it would suck for her to go untreated. Pinworms are pretty harmless, but can throw off absorption of nutrients, cause discomfort, and irritability in kids. My son was being a little asshole, and sure enough, he had them.

My son has been being a little asshole for a month or so, my husband just mentioned to me the other am he woke up in the middle of the night complaining that his butt hurt "inside" then I read this thread.......

Good lawd the shit no one tells you about

Could be a hemorrhoid.

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.

SHUT UP! I just came back from a 3rd world country. Gah.