It’s a roundworm, so usually you drink water contaminated with worm eggs from , and they just grow inside you. The real issue is that if there’s one there are usually HUNDREDS more. https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/ascariasis/index.html
I can’t imagine having a 4’ parasitic worm just squirming around inside my body? What are the symptoms? She HAD to feel that. Around 25 years of internet, and that’s one of the most disgusting/disturbing things I’ve seen.
Some parasitic worms can get much better than that too. Tapeworms from raw fish in the human intestines have been recorded up to like almost 90 feet long lol...
Probably not, sushi fish gets flash frozen to kill parasites. So as long as it's thru normal supply chain you should be fine. Undercooked pork on the other hand...
Flash frozen for 24 hours or frozen in typical home freezer for minimum one week. I'm trying to catch coho and others for some homemade sashimi this fall.
LOL will definitely freeze for a couple weeks minimum myself. I've had food poisoning from sushi before, not something I recommend. Pink that bad for sushi eh?
Before that I thought I had had food poisoning a few times. Nope. Now I know what real food poisoning is. Sent me to the ER as I was puking blood while simultaneously (and I mean simultaneously) shitting my brains out. Severe debilitating dehydration.
Nah, I mean, the day-to-day of a nurse is blood, flesh bits, vomit, shit, piss, snot, etc. which yeah, it is gross, and I respect nurses for putting up with it, but all of that are bodily fluids expected from the human body.
Pulling something alive and still fucking squirming, right after you saw it get pulled out from the mouth of a patient? Now THAT will shake anyone up.
Apparently anaesthetics don’t work on parasites. Which means while you sleep, even when you are rendered unconscious by the strongest pharmaceuticals we know of… this worm snake remains fully alert, moving around inside you.
Actually many antihelmintics work by paralyzing the worms so the body's own immune system can yeet them. They're also used in combos, paralytic first then something like ivermectin to flush them out.
Ascariasis is fucking horrifying but luckily it's treatable.
You eat food infected with parasite eggs, or touch your mouth after touching something with a parasite. Or you eat a gas station sandwich and they rebuild you out of worm.
Contaminated water or food. This worm had a long time to grow…usually better to deworm yourself before it gets this bad…if you figure out what’s going on.
The truly horrific thing about roundworms is that they can go anywhere. You can cough them up, they can come out your nose, they can even get into your eyes.
That's probably a parasite called Taenia saginata or taenia solium and the disease you get is called Taeniasis. You get this from eating raw or undercooked meat. This worm can get to up to 10 meters long and block your intestines and cause underdevelopment in children. This is nowhere close to the record longest taenia that I think is 20 meters.
You skipped the part were if the eggs of tênia enter in the your blood circulation this eggs can go to every part of your body, especialy in your brain were the eggs become cists and stay forever.
Edit: not forever, but needs rigorous medical treatment or surgery to take out
Yeh, that is caused, if I'm not mistaken, only by Taenia solium that comes from undercooked pork, not saginata that comes from undercooked beaf. Rare disease nowadays in developed countries, but cause "healthy" adults to have seizures and the MRI scan of the brain does look like some tripophobia nightmare. Just look for it "Taenia solium cysticercosis" and you will have some nightmare fuel.
The concerning thing is there are no symptoms at first. But after a while, depending on severity and location, you get them. For example, in the lungs they cause coughing and shortness of breath. In the abdomen, they cause gas, bloating, and nausea. In severe cases with tons of worms, it can stunt growth in children or cause stomach bloating.
You don’t just look back into the toilet bowl to admire your shit mountain, sticking above the waterline, and determine if it needs a poop knife before flushing?
Eating undercooked meat that's contaminated with eggs, or touching soil that's been previously contaminated with animal poop containing the parasited and eggs, and touching your mouth without washing your hands for example. How it got this big before they realized it was there though, I have no clue
They're parasites and they lay eggs in animal feces, which can then get mixed into soil. If you accidentally consume something contaminated with those eggs, they'll hatch in your intestine. Most people get them from contaminated food or contact with infected pets.
Could you imagine when you realize there’s actual worms in your body like this? I just was doing some googling, and it seems like it’s not just one roundworm. apparently the larvae travel through your blood and then come out in your lungs then into your stomach where they can grow huge. It was saying one way to know is if you start seeing dead worms in your poop. It also was saying up that billions of people get some kind of worms each year.
This is the roundworm, which infects up to 1 billion people a year. Fucking hell.
Now I just googled what’s the longest worm a human can get and apparently the broad fish tapeworm can be 30-50 feet long (9-15m) in your intestines. wtf….
Edit: anyone here in the comments ever have the displeasure of having worms? I did not think so many people got them. Although, I imagine most cases aren’t like this poor women and certain regions are more at risk.
Grew up in deep South Louisiana, and my grandmother would absolutely lose her mind when we went outside and took off our shoes.. the hook worms!
We got home she would scrub our feet with Brillo pads. I still cannot get a pedicure to this day without jumping out of my skin because of the damn Brillo pads. lol
Man, I guess that’s something I took for granted. Walking barefoot outside is one of the greatest things ever. Definitely a semi safe activity in Kansas. I still do it and I’m in my 40’s now. The south actually sounds terrifying from some accounts. Glad you made it to adulthood.
Really common in kids. Like really common which is why doing laundry is important. Very easy to kill though - just drink some medicine for a few days and do tons of laundry.
In reality there’s two types of people: people born in wealthy regions where most food is worm free and people who were born in poor or developing regions where food is not worm free.
If most of your food comes from a supermarket you are unlikely to ever get worms.
Pinworms are a never-ending nuisance in childcare in my wealthy region. I was always scared of getting them as a child because everyone else had them so often, and then I remembered that when I was in a rehab program for a few years and there were a lot of disabled people in the same programs, and the toilet perpetually had a warning about pinworms and needing to wash your hands properly.
They don't come from food, they transmit like a stomach bug. Touch something that was touched by a person with them, fail to wash your hands after, it's over.
I had Giardia from a water fountain in Kansas City that wasn’t properly flushed in the spring. I thought I was just pooping a lot bc I was stressed, but I went on vacation and was chilling in a hot tub and they did not like that. I ran to the pool bathroom and expelled some but not all of them and that vacation was officially over. The pain was excruciating but the shock is permanently burned into my memory.
I also had multiple intestinal parasites after a month in Southern Asia and you could see them rippling under my abdomen when I took the medication to kill them. Let’s just say they did not vacate the premises easily. It took two rounds of meds and multiple trips to the doctor with my little poop samples before I was cleared.
That sounds absolutely horrifying!! That would be burned into my memory also. Actually seeing them through your abdomen? That’s got to be one of your top most terrible experiences.
I was most afraid that I would not be allowed to get on the plane home because I was so sick and I kept breaking out into sweat. My husband told me I looked like a drug smuggler and I was struggling to stand upright at one point. My daughter was also sick and I had to clean and change her a couple times and just throw her clothes away.
It was horrible, but the lady at the airport put my family in bulkhead seats so we were by a bathroom. People let us cut the line for the bathroom because my daughter was obviously ill. The stewardess kept bringing us water and juice. People were very kind to us and once we were home and received medical care we recovered within days.
I remember in Biology class wondering why the immune system has a whole branch of its military (eosinophils) dedicated to fighting worms. Then I realized that compared to the average immune cell worms are basically kaiju. And that made it pretty rad.
Thats why you have to keep your insides clean with plenty of alcohol, i recommend around 40% alcohol from known brands like johnny walker or jim bean 🤣
“Infection occurs by ingesting food or drink contaminated with Ascaris eggs from feces.[2]The eggs hatch in the intestines, the larvae burrow through the gut wall, and migrate to the lungs via the blood.[2] There they break into the alveoli and pass up the trachea, where they are coughed up and may be swallowed.”
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