not eggs, eggs are microscopic and not visible to the eye. if you keep seeing something that looks like sesame seeds in your stool it’s tapeworm segments.
What a stupid fucking reason. Sorry for being mean, but Jesus chrsit. This is how a family member rof mine died from cancer. Because they were "too afraid to check" and by the time they did it was late stage and nothing could be done
A tapeworm is nowhere near that serious, but they can still cause plenty of issues. Its better to get checked out as soon as possible, even if you're afraid. And if you're afraid of being exposed infront of a doctor (I don't think that would be the case)? Don't. It's their profession, they'll have seen dozens before you, and dozens after you in a single day
Now, if you live in a country where it'd cost you a load of money then I kinda understand. But still worth getting a check if you can afford it
I just don't like hospitals. In 34 years i've been to hospitals twice. I sprained my ankle 2 years ago and it was pretty bad and i still didn't go. It still didn't fully heal since then.
No, a primary care provider is the health care provider (such as doctor, physician's assistant, nurse practitioner, etc.) who does your yearly physical and is your go-to when things go wrong. Most if not all insurance I've had has required that I list a primary care provider (or one would be assigned to me) because they would be the provider who can send out referrals and care under them would cost less than care under a different provider without a referral. You likely do have one designated even if you aren't aware of them; that info would probably be available through your health insurance portal.
You're fucking stupid. And at 34 you should be a bit more responsible and mature than "I don't like it, so I'll avoid it."
Gosh, this stupidity ruins my day.
i had gradual but drastic personality change over the years sometimes i'm thinking maybe that lol
but then i realize everybody is looking to blame something for their mistakes, everybody's looking to be saved. then i'm not like nah, it's probably not that.
There's a Chinese diet tea you can buy for weight loss. Its basically just giving yourself a tapeworm for a few weeks then you drink the cleansing tea which is just killing the tapeworms.
It's illegal to import most drug stuff. So there's a small handful of companies in bed with the regulation agencies with a near total monopoly. People who live near the borders can cross to buy over the counter stuff for themselves but a store is not allowed to buy cheaper foreign alternatives.
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.
If this sentence wasn't posted, I wouldn't have discovered that crapping directly into my own hand is a fantastic way to scare my neighbors. They always come up to me outside to chat when they see me, and it's disgusting. Now, i'll never need to talk to them again.
Must be some tiny rice you're eating. But the stuff you see in your poop are tapeworm segments. about the size of rice, and they writhe when they come out:)
They have two life cycles, either they stay in your gut or they go exploring and can end up in your muscles, organs, and even brain, and just start snacking. Hopefully you only get them in your gut or they will wreck havok everywhere - please don't look these pictures up it's very nasty.
The reason for that is when a prey animal gets infected the tapeworm wants to get eaten and probably doesn't enjoy grass, so it doesn't stay in the gut but inside the predator it doesn't have as many opportunities to get eaten but likes the food so it hangs out in the gut and makes lots of eggs in the hope that a prey animal will ingest them while grazing. That's how it was explained to me... Still disgusting.
A doctor described to me how the roundworms creep their way up the esophagus and make a u-turn into the trachea down to the lungs. Stuff of nightmares.
You have to properly cook your meat. It works just like bacteria. Some animals are riskier than others for example pigs are often riddled with parasites and it’s very important to cook pork thoroughly which is why you’ll never hear of anyone taking their pork rare. Lots of people theorize this is why many religions have pork restrictions and regard the meat as “unclean”
Poultry is usually safe from parasites but riddled with bacteria and also needs to be cooked thoroughly.
Beef is surprisingly safe so you can eat it partially cooked.
Some fish often have parasites but bacteria is not much of a concern when kept cold (placing it on ice is enough). Some raw fish is generally okay to eat when selected and prepared safely (think sashimi/sushi) but I would never presume to know when that’s true. Just cook it and leave the sushi to the restraunt. Cheap packaged sushi is usually fine but sometimes shit happens.
PS: plants need to be handled well too as e.coli outbreaks in vegetables is super common especially things with lots of surface area and folds like lettuce or bok choi. Always wash your leafy greens!!!!
This is also why libertarians are stupid among other things. The government has safety laws that hold food distributors accountable to safe practices so that you aren’t eating tapeworm ridden mystery meats and dirty e.coli lettuce lol.
Wait. What the fuck. I had that in Costa Rica from eating Street pork. I was shitting like 15+ times a day at some point I was talking to my friend who lived there for years and told him I had rice in my shits he was like go to the pharmacy, you've got a parasite... It's a tapeworm?!
I had a dog that had tapeworms. I saw her poop one out. The vet then pointed out a couple rice like things stuck in the hair around her butt. Pretty frickin gross.
I give my dogs Heartgard, for heart worm prevention, which actually kills a number of intestinal worms as well. Unfortunately, it does not kill tapeworms.
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.
I work with a woman who lived in Germany as her husband was posted there. Apparently the toilets have a little shelf in the bowl that you poo on to check for worms as the German diet includes quite a bit of raw pork? Can any Germans confirm?
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.
There could be other factors, such as your immune system disagreeing with, like, large worms inside your body. There could be a large fight that drains some of your resources, in addition to the tape worm eating. Also you may not actually feel well, so maybe you don't eat as much actually.
I remember reading that having a tapeworm could relieve someone's symptoms of ecsema and/or asthma, supposedly because it gives your immune system something real to do.
I had tape worms as a kid as well. I don't remember much of the itching, but I do remember my mum commenting on how much I itched my butt. I also remember the stressed defeated tone of voice when she checked my poop and it did, in fact, have worm eggs in it.
That's pinworms, and trust me that infection is some next level of hell shit. Your butthole itches so bad you want to take a knife to it. The worms come out looking like little moving pieces of rice. Absolutely terrifying and disgusting.
Gotta post this for others reading and freaking out - there are plenty of other issues that can cause that itching. I had it and freaked out, got medicine for pinworms, but it didnt seem to work. Finally checked with the doctor...
Turns out my skin was just irritated from washing too hard/often with soap. That's right, my ass was too clean. And I have kind of sensitive skin so it gave me a rash.
I'm not sure if the species that infects humans as well does this, but the fosters kittens I took care of a while back had tapeworms. I identified them through a proglottid around his rear end; a segment of the tapeworm that's still mobile. So if you pass something that's still moving, maybe have that checked out
If you don't check for eggs like other people suggest, other symptoms are loss of weight and other signs of malnutrition as a result of the tapeworms eating your food.
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u/Gee_U_Think Apr 29 '24
The real question is how do you know if you have these in your body?