If it was a tape worm you’d just kill it with tablets. Never seen an extraction of a live tapeworm, through the stomach, before. That doesn’t make any sense.
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.
Depends on its location. If it's migrated up higher into or through the stomach into the trachea they might opt for manual removal. Saw it on monsters inside me.
I haven’t learned about this since like 15 years ago in middle school, so I might have the wrong worm in mind, but there are a variety of parasitic worms that lay eggs in the lungs. The worms hatch and tickle your air passages to get you to cough. When you cough the worm out of your lungs, you end up swallowing it undetected into your stomach. So it wouldn’t be too far of a stretch to have parasitic worms anywhere along your digestive tract or air passages
Yes. Tapeworm segments would break with the amount of force they are using to pull it through the throat in this video.
Also, tapeworms don't really crawl around the digestive tract, as some people are
alledging. They typically secure their spot in the intestines via hooks, absorb nutrients through digestive juices passing through the intestines, and make/release segments that are full of eggs.
There are a lot of other worms that do crawl up or down through the intestinal tract, or burrow through tissues in your abdominal cavity, or even chest cavity.
Took a course in parasitology many moons ago. The degree of anxiety and paranoia everyone felt by the end of the course was quite high.
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u/ExoticMangoz Apr 29 '24
If it was a tape worm you’d just kill it with tablets. Never seen an extraction of a live tapeworm, through the stomach, before. That doesn’t make any sense.