Or, from Lynn’s hard work, someone else can scratch their ass, get up in the morning and touch the kitchen counter top and leave eggs there for you to pick up later.
As for the whole thing though full body shudder I’ve seen worms crawl out of my sister’s sick cat’s anus. Imagining that happening to me is not pretty. I keep coming to these threads hoping for desensitization. Hasn’t happened yet.
I always wonder in these situations, what would the 'god-created-man-in-his-own-image" crowd have to say? “Hey, God, did you have to be susceptible to parasites/worms, etc? I mean, hey, you’re God. Could you not go around scratching your disgusting worm riddled butt?”
About the only thing I remember from my Invertebrate Zoology class is pinworms. You can become reinfected or spread the little buggers by changing the bedlinens. Tiny little worm eggs fly up (from all the flipping and flapping of the sheets) and land in your nose or mouth and travel to your gullet to produce yet more evil little wormies. (My prof had been infected this way… after his kids got infected.)
Any one else really REALLY need to take a shower now??
DeVena, yes.
I’m still confused. Why doesn’t the stomach acids burn them to sh*t when you re-ingest them?
I’ve seen those “reality” tv shows, and people eat worms. In some countries its just part of their diet.
Why don’t they just get digested when you accidently stick your egg encrusted finger in your mouth? eeegads! Have a little protein with your toothpaste???
gag!!!
Myrna, stomach acid itself isn’t too strong - a great deal of digestion is accomplished through particular enzymes. And, yes, the enzymes do most of the “burning” - but to particular substances. Some substances aren’t broken up fast enough to be absorbed before leaving the body - cellulose, for instance. If you eat highly fibrous foods, a great deal more will leave you. Tomato plants are very common around sewage treatment plants because the seeds’ shells are not breached by the human digestive system, and continue through. It’s a short jump to the thought that other substances are immune to digestion, and that eggs or larvae can cover themselves in these.
Cuz this whole mess started with one person. Edgar Winter. They are his albino demon seeds.
I’d wager that in at least some cases, the digestive processes would actually be essential to the hatching of the larvae - since this is abundantly true in your analogy of ingested seeds.
I had to deal with pinworms when I worked with the developmentally disabled. One client was constantly getting them, and then she’d spread them to the rest of the household, and in some cases, staff.
I never knew if I caught them, but I took that damned medicine and I started washing my hands all the damned time. It’s a hand-to-mouth thing. The eggs are in an almost invisible, transparent gelitanous form, so you really can’t see them. Once the infected person touches anything, they may have spread eggs there—counter top, door handle, anything. But if you wash your hands thoroughly before you eat or put your hands near your mouth, you should be okay. (Knock on wood.)
And yes, they are these creepy white thready things. Charming. And as far as the scotch tape test goes, yes, it’s very much used. I’ve had to try to wrestle a full-grown person, in an attempt to attach scotch tape to her ass. Let me tell you, it’s exhausting!
Fortunately, the medicine does work. It paralyzes the pinworms and they immediately die and pass through your system. You are then to take the medicine two weeks later to kill off any remaining pinworms that may not have gotten killed the first time. (Or, in case you reinfected yourself.)
Quoting Lynn’s report:
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Ok, that’s not a mental image I need today.
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Am I the only living human on this planet that has NOT seen these things?? Oh, my holy GOD! I want to vomit, shudder violently, scream, pass out cold, and croak all at once thanks to this thread. EWWWWWW! I want to check my three year old… RIGHT NOW!! Problem is that she’s autistic and still wears diapers because she doesn’t get the whole potty training thing yet (most autistic kids learn when older, so I’m told). If I try to check, she will wake up. Is that… ? Wait a sec… do I… feel an… ITCH??? violent shudder
I have the heebie-jeebies, damn it!! My entire body feels itchy now! Like when you’ve just discovered a spider crawling lightly over your skin and you’ve flicked him away in pure absolute terror while flailing and shrieking about the house like a headless chicken on speed, and you can’t get rid of the feeling he’s still on you! I feel that! RIGHT NOW! EWWWW!
No doctor of mine or my kiddo has EVER told me of these things! WT-holy-F!?! :eek:
What is the name of any and all medicines (OTC) that kills the butt evil dead forever??? I’m stocking up!!
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As disgusting as this thread is, I must give thanks for it providing me with a unique insight into why exactly I am still single. My first thought upon reading it was that if I had a wife, I would show her this thread, and then before the next morning I would find the biggest, fattest tomato worm I could find and stick it to a piece of scotch tape…
Has this thread made any one a paranoid hypochondriac. OMG, what was that!?
You darn tootin’, FernForest. Every time my drawers brush up against my piehole now I’m thinkin’ “Aargh! A worm’s makin’ an egg run.” This thread freaked me out and my poor sphincter is getting so darn tired from staying permanently clenched.
You are a friggin’ RIOT, man! I never thought I’d ever see such a sentence in my life as that egg run comment of yours. Holy Jesus on a stick! I love your humor, just don’t touch me… we all know where your hand has been :eek: .
You do not want to know how I reacted when I had my first encounter with the pinworm phenomenom (at work, where a patient had them). I was convinced that I had them. Every itch, every tingle, convinced me I had them. I even resorted to inspecting my poop in the toilet. (You can sometimes see them wiggling around in your crap. That’s how I “discovered” that the patient at work had them.)
Thank goodness, I never found anything, but a coworker did once. She said that she noticed that she was feeling kind of “gassy” for a while, and then . . . ACK!!! They were in her poop!!!
Yes, I had to share. I am only here to educate!
Taken out of context, this would make quite the sig line.
Tiny tentacle porn.
Do you have to re-eat them? I mean, I’m sure there are some people who don’t scratch/re eat them, and the pinworms just continue to do their thing because no one’s killed them off.