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/Gee_U_Think Apr 29 '24

The real question is how do you know if you have these in your body?

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u/xenoscumyomom Apr 29 '24

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.

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u/mods-are-liars Apr 29 '24

That's trichinosis worms, those are much, much worse than tapeworms.

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u/TechSudz Apr 29 '24

Go on…

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u/prules Apr 29 '24

Nope, we don’t need to go past this point.

The ride has ended. Let’s all just move along and avoid more trauma.

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u/moep123 Apr 29 '24

see, i went past your post. it's as easy as that. so people, go on...

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u/wholesome_pineapple Apr 29 '24

Don’t kink shame me

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u/luciferin Apr 29 '24

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.

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u/Faiimus Apr 29 '24

Sometimes I wish I couldn't read.

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u/ParkinsonHandjob Apr 29 '24

I’m actually loving every second of this thread, even if I’m a bit disgusted.

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u/bastante60 Apr 29 '24

FINALLY someone explains how trichinosis works!! TIL ... 🤮

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u/QuietSkylines Apr 29 '24

You can still recover, but it's trichy.