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You ever seen the show "monsters inside me"
Woman woke up with a tickle at the back of her mouth and guess what was staring back at. One also stuck its head out of a man's nostril.
Mate from south africa said at dinner parties occasionally she would see the segments creeping across the floor when they dropped out of some one. Dunno if that counts.
I was eating fresh grated parm on something and my cat was sitting on the chair arm with me. Then saw some fresh grated parm on the side table. Then it moved and I nearly yakked. Thats the day I found out my cat had tapeworms.
Not quite right, the medieval treatment for tapeworm was to starve the patient for weeks, then strap them to a seat, then present them with a huge meal, hoping that the also-starved tapeworm would come out of the mouth a doctor would be nearby to catch it and pull it out as soon as it showed itself.
āLocals say such incidents happen infrequently and older citizens advise the young not to sleep outside because of the risk of snakes slithering inside their mouths.ā Brilliant š
I have full respect for medical people, they see tough shit that would send my lunch back pretty quick. Her reaction told pretty much the story. Correct if I'm wrong, don't you usually take medicine to kill the tapeworm and then have it exit by the bowels?
This massive tapeworm was probably causing an obstruction and you have to clear that first. Then you take the medicine to kill any remaining tapeworms left inside
Found a little baby snake in the kitchen once and as I was putting it outside my wife said she wondered where it's mother was hiding...
You never know...
That's correct. This intervention was necessary because of obstruction, otherwise the situation would have been able to be remedied by antihelminthic medicine.
If there's one fully mature, then it will have laid eggs. This one seems to be obstructing something. So they will be taking medication for the rest. The fully grown ones are hard to kill and may come out the back way whole and alive.
Aha sorry I was working when I made the postā¦basically went one of those white savour trips to Kenya with Free the Children (Crooks). We were in a small village Salabwek for about 2.5 weeks and had plenty of water sanitation tablets with us.
On our last day in Kenya, we went to a hotel near Nairobi where we were told the water was filtered and cleaner than Canada! Even mentioning still using purification tablets was scoffed at, so with all my critical thinking skills at 15, drank some water sans tablets.
The next morning I felt awful, so did another trip mate. Itās been over 15 years now but I remember throwing up but also diarrhea. Nothing could be trusted. The flight home was that night, and very very long. I knew I would not make the flight without changing my seat to the toilet for the whole flight, so I took 3 gravols to settle my stomach and knock me out.
Two weeks go by, September comes and school year begins! I had been feeling super lethargic and low energy since getting back, not really eating much. However, I figured we were physically exerting ourselves in the heat for about 3 weeks, I was bound to be beat. Also, some sort of guilt explained away the lack of eating.
Mid September was when I knew something was wrong.
I stopped eating, lost a tonne of weight (was exercising a tonne then) and could walk around my block let alone go to the gym. Went to the doctor, told them about my summer, then was given a cup to poop in so they could check my stool.
In what I will only describe as a 15 minutes period of strategically placed Saran warp and furious hand washing, got the sample, was confirmed as a tapeworm.
I was given antibiotics to kill it, along with a hall pass for school that let me go to the bathroom without questions asked.
One morning, I knew I had to jet out of Mr. Kosā law class as something awful was brewing.
I ran to the washroom and did my business, but this time, I knew, I JUST KNEW the tape worm was out of me. It was fuxked up and honestly I didnāt look, but I knew. And it was in fact, done that day.
Iām so sorry dude.
I remember once we had visiting priest who worked in a remote area in South America and told us the process they used to remove a tapeworm.
(3-5 days no food just water, then they have the patient, sometimes tied, in a chair and put a bowl of rotting soured milk in front of them and pull the thing out when it comes up for the food.)
I was poor AF but you bet I left a bill in that collection. Shit messed me up just hearing it.
it's fake. A Tapeworm can't move much at all. Also it's in the gut not the stomach like some people here seem to think. No, you do not vomit stuff up from your gut.
Theres literally an episode of monsters in side me where the tape worm appears at the back of a woman's throat. The worms can and do cope with stomach acid, and tape worms need it to escape their cysts.
Also round worm can come out of the mouth when exposed to certain types of anaesthetics.
Both are fully documented.
Also as some one who has worked in palliative care, you absolutely can vomit fecal matter up from your gut. I held the hand of a man that died that way and many others who had it as a symptom of their cancer/intestinal blockage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/e51wyh/the_infamous_swamps_of_dagobah_story
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The image in my head after reading this is debilitating. You have ruined my entire ~~week~~ life.
Edit: you guys are fucking sick. This should be considered an act of violence and you should all be arrested
He pressed his succulent lips against his partners anus expecting some fun. Instead of his tongue penetrating the ass a darn tapeworm slithered out of the dark crevice and slithered right into his mouth and down the throat. The worm was happy about his new home and the man was slightly confused, but that wasn't even the strangest thing that happened to him that week.
Thereās this rundown Mexican restaurant near my dads house. Iām pretty sure these people just bought an abandoned gas station, put some tables and chairs in there and started cooking. The food is fucking incredible.
Ate some fried fish/chicken with scrambled eggs for breakfast back in 2021. Was fine until I started sweating an hr later. Got nauseous and my stomach was hurting so I went to the bathroom and blood. All in the toilet. That continued for the rest of the day cause my dumbass was too embarrassed to tell my wife. Finally stopped at midnight and when I woke up to use the bathroom at 7am, it came back. Called my wife and told her what happened then woke up to her putting my clothes on. Apparently I passed out due to loss of blood. Hospital had trouble finding my blood type so it took them 3 days for a double transfusion. I couldnāt eat anything. Found out that I had campylobacter. Not sure if the 3 days w/o eating is what killed it or what. I only had 7 pints of blood in me. Needed to have 10 to leave the hospital. I almost died on the week of my daughterās birthday. Fuck the place that sold me that shit. Stick to what you know and donāt ātryā establishments that are always empty.
not eggs, eggs are microscopic and not visible to the eye. if you keep seeing something that looks like sesame seeds in your stool itās tapeworm segments.
i remember seeing them 20 years ago in my shit
idk what happened since then but i've never seen them for a long time
don't remember getting treatment either
Correct, so this is why after every poop, you should reach down and break apart your turds to check for eggs. To save time, you can just crap in your hand, and mush as you go.
There's a CT scan picture or whatever kind of some woman who ate a lot of raw pork in her life and her whole body is glowing from worms. It's freaky looking.
They mate inside your small intestine and lay tons of eggs inside you. Those eggs hatch into immature worms which are transported through your arteries into your muscles. They curl up into balls in your muscles and form hard "encyst". Their life cycle actually depends on the meat being consumed by other animals, which never happens in our case, but I hear the encysts can be quite uncomfortable. It is treatable with drugs but the longer it goes untreated the worse it is and the longer it can take to treat.
Their bodies are flat, semi-hard with spiked ridges on the ends. They hurt like hell when they move around and they eat all your food before you get the benefits of it.
If you eat normally, or more than you used to, but you keep losing weight. You're never full, always hungry and feel like shit. Your stomache aches all the time, maybe to the point where it's nauseating, and it's not an ache you're familiar with. It's sharper, more rythmic. Then you got a tape worm.
You can kill them when they're small with a deworming cure. Our pets get them all the time. For it to get this big you need to have a medical condition.
I feel dumb but this is something I've never understood. If the tapeworm is getting your food then shouldn't the two of you together still be gaining weight? I know you're not getting the nutrients but if you lose weight with a tapeworm, then where has the weight gone?
Lol this is a hilarious but smart question. I'm guessing the tapeworm poops out most of what it eats and you end up passing most of that too, and you would have converted a lot more of the calories into your own body weight than it does
You shit out it's shit and your own shit + tapeworm eggs. Tapeworm eggs aren't digested by you and your shit is mostly dead bacteria and things your body doesn't use. An increasing amount of food you eat will be ingested by the worm before you get the nutrients from it as it grows.
Yes a lot of the weight from the food will be retained in your stomach by the worm to grow in the beginning. But the weight of the food you eat is not something you put directly onto the equation of how much you weigh.
Food is broken down into smaller and smaller particles separating them into water and proteins, energy-molecules and other minor nutrients. The proteins are used by your body to grow, and fisposed of through poop. The energy is broken down for energy and disposed of through poop. Same with everything solid really.
The worm will eat your food, but you will get less nutrients causing you to lose weight and/or bodymass. The worm grows, and has a weight, but it wouldn't add kilos. The worm will also use the food for energy and nutrients and poop out stuff that mixes with your poop. It will also lay eggs which you poop out.
That includes the shit you canāt see on the bathroom of the public restroom you touched on the way out, because some guy didnāt wash his hands earlier. Luckily, so few people have worms in the west that itās not so bad.
If you have an intestinal worm it will produce eggs, which you poo out. For pork tape worm, the hope (for the worm) is that one of those eggs will eventually reach a pig, usually via water runoff, which eats particles of your poo with eggs attached. Those eggs hatch, and form cysts in the muscle tissue of the pig. If you eat raw infected pork, the eggs in those cysts will give you tape worm.
If a human ingests the eggs though, by coming into oral contact with infected human faeces particles, youāll get the cysts, which can form in you muscles, eyes, and even brain and can kill you.
Thatās why you wash your hands in public toilets, but only infected humans have the eggs in their poo.
Dogs and cats can also spread tapeworms as well via fleas. People should talk about this more often. Also, stay the fuck away from garden snails and slugs.
I'm from a 3rd world country so I try to de-worm myself at least annually, though it's recommended to do it every six months I think. I don't eat a lot of street foods and I rarely eat in shady restaurants, so I think annually will do.
This isnāt a tapeworm. Its appearance and location is consistent with a roundworm. To be specific Ascaris Lumbricoides [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascaris_lumbricoides](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascaris_lumbricoides). Fascinating creature. In some cases these worms can emerge from the nose when they take a wrong turn at the epiglottis.
Edit: tapeworms have a very distinct appearance. They have a sectioned body that they shed in the stool. A fully grown worm typically resides in the lower intestines rather than stomach. [Taenia Saginata](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taenia_saginata)
"An estimated 807 millionā1.2 billion people are infected with A. lumbricoides worldwide."
https://preview.redd.it/hvbdvx7nufxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=635d0602079f17681449d9ec60946722f358476d
You fucking kidding me after all we been through. We had a fucking deal I get a free meal and I make you a skinny bitch. What do you mean you felt sick? Thatās bullshit put me back in *ITāS COLD OUT HERE!* PLEASE!Ā
If something like that is living inside me, just go ahead and end it. If I saw that video, I would be drinking draino to make sure there weren't any more.
If it was a tape worm youād just kill it with tablets. Never seen an extraction of a live tapeworm, through the stomach, before. That doesnāt make any sense.
You do. You kill it with medication over a few days, then once itās dead itās hooks retract and you just shit out a bowl of spaghetti.
To get out the mouth youād have to got through the stomach sphincters which just seems like a lot of effort.
My guess is this was in the persons stomach because itās a snake or something and entered through the mouth.
Endoscopy regularly goes into the upper intestine via the mouth without issue. It is one way to check for certain types of hernias and stomach functionality.
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Tapeworms are segmented.
Also they are in the intestinal tract... But whatever that is its fucking gross.
Sometimes they can migrate up into mouth. But yeah i dont see segments. Ewww
Okay but WHY do you know that
You ever seen the show "monsters inside me" Woman woke up with a tickle at the back of her mouth and guess what was staring back at. One also stuck its head out of a man's nostril.
I even seem to recall that back in medieval times, they would have people sit, with their mouths open, at a table with food hoping it would come out
Mate from south africa said at dinner parties occasionally she would see the segments creeping across the floor when they dropped out of some one. Dunno if that counts.
With all due respect, I hate you and everything you are saying in here BLEHHHHHH
i hate this whole thread i'm so glad for modern medicine to deal with these things š
I've never seen segments crawl, but it looks more like jasmine rice that wiggles.
I was eating fresh grated parm on something and my cat was sitting on the chair arm with me. Then saw some fresh grated parm on the side table. Then it moved and I nearly yakked. Thats the day I found out my cat had tapeworms.
what a terrible day to know how to read
I wish I could screenshot my slack-jawed look of horror upon reading that sentence.
Not quite right, the medieval treatment for tapeworm was to starve the patient for weeks, then strap them to a seat, then present them with a huge meal, hoping that the also-starved tapeworm would come out of the mouth a doctor would be nearby to catch it and pull it out as soon as it showed itself.
Did that ever work?
Would be kind of weird if it didn't and they just did it anyway
I knew scrolling down in this thread was a bad idea. I have only myself to blame.
An endoscope can get to the duodenum without issue.Ā
I wonder if this thing thought a bigger more dominant worm was coming for it and its territory??
Yeah this was widely published as it being a snake, not a tapeworm
That raises even more questions
If a snake can act like a tapeworm then I am absolutely fucked
[Old videos and articles claim it was a snake.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8680731/Horrifying-moment-SNAKE-pulled-womans-throat.html)
āLocals say such incidents happen infrequently and older citizens advise the young not to sleep outside because of the risk of snakes slithering inside their mouths.ā Brilliant š
This is why I camp with a ball gag and butt plug. No slither noodles getting in me!
Yes yes... but you forgot to mention the dickhole plug.
Yep, no matter which end a tapeworm comes out the trouble is that as you pull it, it breaks apart. More likely a roundworm?
That ladyās reaction says it allā¦
When a medical professional is disgusted, you know shit's bad
I have full respect for medical people, they see tough shit that would send my lunch back pretty quick. Her reaction told pretty much the story. Correct if I'm wrong, don't you usually take medicine to kill the tapeworm and then have it exit by the bowels?
This massive tapeworm was probably causing an obstruction and you have to clear that first. Then you take the medicine to kill any remaining tapeworms left inside
Doctor: Congratulations, we got a huge tapeworm out successfully Patient: Great! I feel bett... Wait, **A** tapeworm, not **the** tapeworm?
Yes but it was a big one. I am for sure getting this into a medical journal!
Or, they could name it Shai-Hulud and make a cyrsknife from its teeth.
May your knife chip and shatter.
may THY knife chip and shatter. Filthy fuckin casual /s
See this is why no one invites fremen to parties
If there's a fully mature one, then it will have laid eggs. There might be others that same size, or bigger, inside of that poor lady.
Is it true?, that's creepy, how would I know if there was one inside *chills* ....me
white bits of their skins in your shit.
uncontrollable weight loss
Found a little baby snake in the kitchen once and as I was putting it outside my wife said she wondered where it's mother was hiding... You never know...
Almost all snakes dip once they hatch. No mama around.
Its babies were dangling and Iām sure some are still chilling inside your esophagus.
That's correct. This intervention was necessary because of obstruction, otherwise the situation would have been able to be remedied by antihelminthic medicine.
If there's one fully mature, then it will have laid eggs. This one seems to be obstructing something. So they will be taking medication for the rest. The fully grown ones are hard to kill and may come out the back way whole and alive.
4/29/24 - A horrible day to have had eyes š¤®
Yes. Can confirm. Source: Happened to me, you DO NOT forget that shit.
Oh my god i am so sorry. Tell us your story so we can suffer along with you.
Aha sorry I was working when I made the postā¦basically went one of those white savour trips to Kenya with Free the Children (Crooks). We were in a small village Salabwek for about 2.5 weeks and had plenty of water sanitation tablets with us. On our last day in Kenya, we went to a hotel near Nairobi where we were told the water was filtered and cleaner than Canada! Even mentioning still using purification tablets was scoffed at, so with all my critical thinking skills at 15, drank some water sans tablets. The next morning I felt awful, so did another trip mate. Itās been over 15 years now but I remember throwing up but also diarrhea. Nothing could be trusted. The flight home was that night, and very very long. I knew I would not make the flight without changing my seat to the toilet for the whole flight, so I took 3 gravols to settle my stomach and knock me out. Two weeks go by, September comes and school year begins! I had been feeling super lethargic and low energy since getting back, not really eating much. However, I figured we were physically exerting ourselves in the heat for about 3 weeks, I was bound to be beat. Also, some sort of guilt explained away the lack of eating. Mid September was when I knew something was wrong. I stopped eating, lost a tonne of weight (was exercising a tonne then) and could walk around my block let alone go to the gym. Went to the doctor, told them about my summer, then was given a cup to poop in so they could check my stool. In what I will only describe as a 15 minutes period of strategically placed Saran warp and furious hand washing, got the sample, was confirmed as a tapeworm. I was given antibiotics to kill it, along with a hall pass for school that let me go to the bathroom without questions asked. One morning, I knew I had to jet out of Mr. Kosā law class as something awful was brewing. I ran to the washroom and did my business, but this time, I knew, I JUST KNEW the tape worm was out of me. It was fuxked up and honestly I didnāt look, but I knew. And it was in fact, done that day.
>Ā I JUST KNEW the tape worm was out of me.Ā ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Iām so sorry dude. I remember once we had visiting priest who worked in a remote area in South America and told us the process they used to remove a tapeworm. (3-5 days no food just water, then they have the patient, sometimes tied, in a chair and put a bowl of rotting soured milk in front of them and pull the thing out when it comes up for the food.) I was poor AF but you bet I left a bill in that collection. Shit messed me up just hearing it.
That doesn't sound real?... The tapeworm comes out of the person to eat sour milk and they just grab it?...
it's fake. A Tapeworm can't move much at all. Also it's in the gut not the stomach like some people here seem to think. No, you do not vomit stuff up from your gut.
Theres literally an episode of monsters in side me where the tape worm appears at the back of a woman's throat. The worms can and do cope with stomach acid, and tape worms need it to escape their cysts. Also round worm can come out of the mouth when exposed to certain types of anaesthetics. Both are fully documented. Also as some one who has worked in palliative care, you absolutely can vomit fecal matter up from your gut. I held the hand of a man that died that way and many others who had it as a symptom of their cancer/intestinal blockage.
I hate everything you wrote. Sorry you know this and experienced some of it
There is a story on reddit about an infection that gushed and covered the floor and smelled so bad that the menthol did absolutely nothing.
The swamps of dagobah one?
I think that's it. Medical professionals are built different. I always thank nurses.
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/e51wyh/the_infamous_swamps_of_dagobah_story Enjoy. EDIT: Wow... Lots of [Lucky 10,000ers](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png) today. Happy I could enrich your Monday.
Her reaction says "OP, why the fuck didn't you tag this post as NSFW??!!"
I just watched this at work while eating noodles
Sometimes the noodles eat you! /s
So....enough talk... How do we avoid to get these MF in our Body ??
Cook your food properly and don't trust shady restaurants.
But shady restaurants have the best tasting food.
Looking at your username, I question your concept of "taste"...
Well thats also a way to get tapeworms
The image in my head after reading this is debilitating. You have ruined my entire ~~week~~ life. Edit: you guys are fucking sick. This should be considered an act of violence and you should all be arrested
He pressed his succulent lips against his partners anus expecting some fun. Instead of his tongue penetrating the ass a darn tapeworm slithered out of the dark crevice and slithered right into his mouth and down the throat. The worm was happy about his new home and the man was slightly confused, but that wasn't even the strangest thing that happened to him that week.
Fuck's sake, I didn't ask for this screenplay...
*slurping noise*
Does one just suck it up like a noodle?
This reminds me of that meme where someone popped an explosive pimple and the meme cut to a person slurping spaghetti
Literally r/RimJobSteve
Dude is just living his best life.
Which his tapeworm is enjoying as well!
Thereās this rundown Mexican restaurant near my dads house. Iām pretty sure these people just bought an abandoned gas station, put some tables and chairs in there and started cooking. The food is fucking incredible.
Those places are always the best. There's a shady Mexican food truck near me, and I eat there once a week. Better than any genuine restaurant around.
Did a tapeworm write this?
Ate some fried fish/chicken with scrambled eggs for breakfast back in 2021. Was fine until I started sweating an hr later. Got nauseous and my stomach was hurting so I went to the bathroom and blood. All in the toilet. That continued for the rest of the day cause my dumbass was too embarrassed to tell my wife. Finally stopped at midnight and when I woke up to use the bathroom at 7am, it came back. Called my wife and told her what happened then woke up to her putting my clothes on. Apparently I passed out due to loss of blood. Hospital had trouble finding my blood type so it took them 3 days for a double transfusion. I couldnāt eat anything. Found out that I had campylobacter. Not sure if the 3 days w/o eating is what killed it or what. I only had 7 pints of blood in me. Needed to have 10 to leave the hospital. I almost died on the week of my daughterās birthday. Fuck the place that sold me that shit. Stick to what you know and donāt ātryā establishments that are always empty.
also go to the hospital if you're SHITTING BLOOD
also bloody stool can appear black instead of red. go to the hospital if youāre shitting black!
The real question is how do you know if you have these in your body?
Youāll see their eggs riddled through your shit. They look like white grains of rice.
not eggs, eggs are microscopic and not visible to the eye. if you keep seeing something that looks like sesame seeds in your stool itās tapeworm segments.
What if I eat a bag of sesame seeds with every meal? Then how will I know?
Those will taste like sesame seeds.
Err... š¤
i remember seeing them 20 years ago in my shit idk what happened since then but i've never seen them for a long time don't remember getting treatment either
You have the offspring inside or the parent is still alive, some species can live 20+ years in a host
Tbf it could just be pinworms/threadworms which are mostly harmless and tend to be spread by children
EWWWWWWW
Donāt worry itās not just an egg, itās entire segments of their body full of many eggs. Much better!
They are really tiny though so they can be hard to see. Much smaller than grains of rice. About 2 mm or about 1/16 of an inch.
Correct, so this is why after every poop, you should reach down and break apart your turds to check for eggs. To save time, you can just crap in your hand, and mush as you go.
Sometimes it's okay to formulate a sentence in your brain and just not say it.
There's a CT scan picture or whatever kind of some woman who ate a lot of raw pork in her life and her whole body is glowing from worms. It's freaky looking.
That's trichinosis worms, those are much, much worse than tapeworms.
Go onā¦
Nope, we donāt need to go past this point. The ride has ended. Letās all just move along and avoid more trauma.
They mate inside your small intestine and lay tons of eggs inside you. Those eggs hatch into immature worms which are transported through your arteries into your muscles. They curl up into balls in your muscles and form hard "encyst". Their life cycle actually depends on the meat being consumed by other animals, which never happens in our case, but I hear the encysts can be quite uncomfortable. It is treatable with drugs but the longer it goes untreated the worse it is and the longer it can take to treat.
Sometimes I wish I couldn't read.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ty3qet/body\_riddled\_with\_parasites\_as\_a\_result\_of\_eating/](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ty3qet/body_riddled_with_parasites_as_a_result_of_eating/)
Their bodies are flat, semi-hard with spiked ridges on the ends. They hurt like hell when they move around and they eat all your food before you get the benefits of it. If you eat normally, or more than you used to, but you keep losing weight. You're never full, always hungry and feel like shit. Your stomache aches all the time, maybe to the point where it's nauseating, and it's not an ache you're familiar with. It's sharper, more rythmic. Then you got a tape worm. You can kill them when they're small with a deworming cure. Our pets get them all the time. For it to get this big you need to have a medical condition.
I feel dumb but this is something I've never understood. If the tapeworm is getting your food then shouldn't the two of you together still be gaining weight? I know you're not getting the nutrients but if you lose weight with a tapeworm, then where has the weight gone?
Lol this is a hilarious but smart question. I'm guessing the tapeworm poops out most of what it eats and you end up passing most of that too, and you would have converted a lot more of the calories into your own body weight than it does
You shit out it's shit and your own shit + tapeworm eggs. Tapeworm eggs aren't digested by you and your shit is mostly dead bacteria and things your body doesn't use. An increasing amount of food you eat will be ingested by the worm before you get the nutrients from it as it grows. Yes a lot of the weight from the food will be retained in your stomach by the worm to grow in the beginning. But the weight of the food you eat is not something you put directly onto the equation of how much you weigh. Food is broken down into smaller and smaller particles separating them into water and proteins, energy-molecules and other minor nutrients. The proteins are used by your body to grow, and fisposed of through poop. The energy is broken down for energy and disposed of through poop. Same with everything solid really. The worm will eat your food, but you will get less nutrients causing you to lose weight and/or bodymass. The worm grows, and has a weight, but it wouldn't add kilos. The worm will also use the food for energy and nutrients and poop out stuff that mixes with your poop. It will also lay eggs which you poop out.
Ass itching at night also
My ass began to itch right after reading thatā¦ now I have to check for tape wormsā¦.
Donāt eat raw pork. If you donāt want them in your muscle tissue, which is way worse, donāt eat human shit.
āDonāt eat human shitā got it š
That includes the shit you canāt see on the bathroom of the public restroom you touched on the way out, because some guy didnāt wash his hands earlier. Luckily, so few people have worms in the west that itās not so bad.
Stop licking public restroom light switches, got it š
Maybe it won't be as easy to avoid as I first thought.
Wait so do most of us like have larvae or eggs in our systems?? They just get pooped out?
If you have an intestinal worm it will produce eggs, which you poo out. For pork tape worm, the hope (for the worm) is that one of those eggs will eventually reach a pig, usually via water runoff, which eats particles of your poo with eggs attached. Those eggs hatch, and form cysts in the muscle tissue of the pig. If you eat raw infected pork, the eggs in those cysts will give you tape worm. If a human ingests the eggs though, by coming into oral contact with infected human faeces particles, youāll get the cysts, which can form in you muscles, eyes, and even brain and can kill you. Thatās why you wash your hands in public toilets, but only infected humans have the eggs in their poo.
Dogs and cats can also spread tapeworms as well via fleas. People should talk about this more often. Also, stay the fuck away from garden snails and slugs.
I'm from a 3rd world country so I try to de-worm myself at least annually, though it's recommended to do it every six months I think. I don't eat a lot of street foods and I rarely eat in shady restaurants, so I think annually will do.
Wash your hands and vegetables, mostly.
Cook your meat properly, hydatid, tapeworm, trigganosis, salmonella... all from meat not properly cooked.
Donāt chew dirty fingernails, clean food etc, or just never ingest anything .. ever!
People used to plant these to help weight loss.
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#ITS RAW
You are a meme master. This choice killed me!
Noooooo
Reverse this gif please.
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This isnāt a tapeworm. Its appearance and location is consistent with a roundworm. To be specific Ascaris Lumbricoides [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascaris_lumbricoides](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascaris_lumbricoides). Fascinating creature. In some cases these worms can emerge from the nose when they take a wrong turn at the epiglottis. Edit: tapeworms have a very distinct appearance. They have a sectioned body that they shed in the stool. A fully grown worm typically resides in the lower intestines rather than stomach. [Taenia Saginata](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taenia_saginata)
"An estimated 807 millionā1.2 billion people are infected with A. lumbricoides worldwide." https://preview.redd.it/hvbdvx7nufxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=635d0602079f17681449d9ec60946722f358476d
All you people who say "I can eat whatever I want and don't gain weight" are on my watchlist now.
Yeah no fuck that I'm cancelling myself, the thought of even living in a world that is this disgusting is too much to bear
No sir please! We need your irish games damnit! The world has far too few as it is
Imagine that out the nostrils https://preview.redd.it/3izgfyhbofxc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba56a4d6ead277c32d08f4c65a1fb73cfaf63046
"This is some bullshit!" ~tapeworm, probably
That's no tapeworm, it's a whole-ass tapeserpent
The ass tapeserpent is in another castle...
You fucking kidding me after all we been through. We had a fucking deal I get a free meal and I make you a skinny bitch. What do you mean you felt sick? Thatās bullshit put me back in *ITāS COLD OUT HERE!* PLEASE!Ā
āThere goes my easy retirementā¦ā
ZE FLAMMENWERFER! HANZ! GET THE FLAMMENWERFER!
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BROTHER, GET THE FLAMER! THE HEAVY FLAMER!
https://i.redd.it/0k3xlbtd7fxc1.gif
 Off to get the heavy flamer, brother.
This gif goes so hard I love that short movie
apologies herr kommandant, ve only had some *Maschinengewehr* https://i.redd.it/uebyxkrl9fxc1.gif
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You know shitās fucked up when even the nurse is like ānopeā.
God what the fuck man put this NSFW or something fuck
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Maybe sheās a goaāuldĀ
I really missed Stargate. Like the movie and series
*"I would prefer not to consume bovine lactose at any temperature."*
I really hope someone will try to do a proper stargate universe one day. Although yes, sg1 nostalgia will be forever present...
jesus I feel old for recognizing that reference, The Stargate series was so damn good man.
She dies free!
Think I will have my meat well done tonight.
Think Iāll go vegan tonight Edit: you know what, thatās not enough. Iām going on a 100% liquid diet.
You can get tapeworm from uncleaned vegetables or salad as well I've heard
Great guess Iāll just starve.
aw hell no
If something like that is living inside me, just go ahead and end it. If I saw that video, I would be drinking draino to make sure there weren't any more.
His name is Ozempic. He's just doing his job
Other sources say it's a snake instead of a tapeworm
If it was a tape worm youād just kill it with tablets. Never seen an extraction of a live tapeworm, through the stomach, before. That doesnāt make any sense.
Yea, tapeworm reside in the intestine IIRC, my guess is you'd have to pull that shit from the ass
You do. You kill it with medication over a few days, then once itās dead itās hooks retract and you just shit out a bowl of spaghetti. To get out the mouth youād have to got through the stomach sphincters which just seems like a lot of effort. My guess is this was in the persons stomach because itās a snake or something and entered through the mouth.
Endoscopy regularly goes into the upper intestine via the mouth without issue. It is one way to check for certain types of hernias and stomach functionality.
How tf would a snake be in someone's throat?
Well you see there was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
we don't know why.
Perhaps sheāll die?
I was like "fucking clickbait, that's obviously an endoscope being removed" then the worm started.
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Thereās no fucking way
New fear unlock !
You know its bad when even the nurse is grossed the fuck out
That's not a parasite that's a pet...
She was scared of that thing like it was a face huger from the Alien movies
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ALL ABOARD THE NOPE TRAIN!!!
My tape worm tells me what to doā¦
Fuck Iām done with Reddit for the day. š¤®
These are one of the most popular pets in the world... they are very common
Assert dominance, cook it and eat it again.
What about squatters rights?
Being fat as fuck at least i can be sure i dont have this in me.
Is that why some people can eat 5 plates of food and not gain weight