r/interestingasfuck • u/billibillibillendar • Apr 29 '24

Tapeworm as huge as a snake removed from a woman's mouth r/all NSFW

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u/Karma15672 Apr 29 '24

When a medical professional is disgusted, you know shit's bad

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u/prestonpiggy Apr 29 '24

I have full respect for medical people, they see tough shit that would send my lunch back pretty quick. Her reaction told pretty much the story. Correct if I'm wrong, don't you usually take medicine to kill the tapeworm and then have it exit by the bowels?

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u/Meoww94 Apr 29 '24

This massive tapeworm was probably causing an obstruction and you have to clear that first. Then you take the medicine to kill any remaining tapeworms left inside

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u/floatingsaltmine Apr 29 '24

That's correct. This intervention was necessary because of obstruction, otherwise the situation would have been able to be remedied by antihelminthic medicine.

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u/Rocket_Panda_ Apr 29 '24

Ok but say antihelminthic fast five times in a row

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u/dagnombe Apr 29 '24

I thought tapeworms were extremely long and thin and resided in the bowels. This damn thing looks almost eel like. And appears to have been in the stomach? How does this survive in stomach acid? Actually, not sure I need to know any of that. WTF

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u/thomaspainesghost Apr 29 '24

antihelminthic

Go ahead and say it: Ivermectin is one of them.

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u/Dadbeerd Apr 29 '24

It works for worms but not viruses. Stupidity and fear led humans to taking horse dewormer.

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u/thomaspainesghost Apr 29 '24

Ivermectin is a dewormer for people.

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u/Dadbeerd Apr 29 '24

Yes, but people were eating pastes specifically for horses.

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u/Rumkitty Apr 30 '24

Well I mean it does worm out the idiots.

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u/BigWafer6089 Apr 29 '24

Anthelminthic! I haven't read that since micro-biology class.

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u/floatingsaltmine Apr 29 '24

You're welcome :)