I feel like the pinworm expert right now. I just found out about the ladies at work having them, so I am still pretty freaked out. I can not remember ever having them as a kid. This is all new to me. The whole idea that they are THESE LITTLE WHITE WIGGLY THINGS CRAWLING OUT OF YOUR ASS TO LAY THEIR EGGS…
That is just mortifying.
You sometimes will see them in your poop, sometimes not. Oh great. Now we will all be examining our poop. Just another bit of information that you really need, right?
I love it when people call my hospital, frantic because, “There’s a worm coming out of my dog’s butt!!!” It is usually followed by a worried, “Can I get them too?”
Now dogs and cats don’t usually get pinworms. They do get roundworms, tapeworms, and hookworms, all of which people can catch. But it’s pretty hard. As mentioned, you have to be really lax in your personal body care. Hookworms are a little different, you can catch them by walking barefoot through infected soil.
And if you think a worm coming out of your butt is griss, think about roundworm, that circulate around your body and can actually come out of your MOUTH. You cough them up, reswallow them, and strat them on their journey back down.
I won’t even tell you about the giant kidney worm. You’ll be traumatized for life.
And I believe the first sign of worm infestation is making several typos in one post.
Just like to add that pinworms are REALLY contagious. My friend’s little sister caught them, and then my friend caught them from her. Prolly has to do with the eggs spreading around in the laundry.
If everyone is worried, just go get some pyrantel from the doctor (or I guess it is available over the counter too, as someone mentioned, although I have never seen it). Pyrantel knocks out most of the worms there are.
I hhhhaaaaaaaate you people. I come here for some comfort and sympathy for my itchy anus (doesn’t itch anymore BTW) and what do I get? WORMS!
[sarcastic voice]“you’ve prolly got lil white worms coming out of your butt and crawling into your mouth and lungs while you sleep… oh yeah, and everytime they move they puke too!”[/sarcastic voice]
Whammo, you’re a true asset to these boards. Well, to THIS forum, anyway
Sue Duhnym, it is hard to believe that a girl as pretty and innocent looking as yourself would take that kind of vocabulary into your mouth! Shame on you
See that… I am not even going to go for the crude joke. I am bigger then that. I just want to make sure that EVERYONE knows I could have made a crude joke.
G*d forbid, if ever LIVE ANIMALS CRAWL OUT OF MY RECTUM AND MATE ON MY BUTTCHEEKS I wouldn’t go to the local Walgreens and get some “over the counter” dewormer. I would soak my buttocks, and if need be, *my genitals *, in pure kerosene and flick a lit match on my arse.
Heavy doses of garlic work wonders for getting rid of worms. Same with a few drops of Black Walnut extract twice a day. Wormwood works too, but as it is excruciatingly bitter and toxic in large doses, I wouldn’t recommend it.
No need to tell me about the horrors of pinworm, I had them when I was a kid. And aside from the sheer grossness factor, HOLY MOTHER did they ITCH!!! I didn’t sleep for months striaght… and discovering what was going ON… shudders
Let’s just say the column and this thread have brought up not-so-happy memories.