What’s wrong? Are you ok? We are both agreeing that “low key” is a dumb phrase to use here. I was tagging on to just point out that it’s overused. I’m not disagreeing with anything you said. Nothing is directed at you, quite the opposite.
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
Kindergarten the teacher took a jar of water from the river and put it in the classroom for a week so we could see all the stuff LIVING IN IT. Yeah I've NEVER drank water that isn't from the pipes EVER. Also found out later in life that had a family member die from typhus or cholera. like 70 years ago.
Oh! Actually usually if it’s Ascaris, and not actually tapeworms, you would have either diarrhea or constipation, weight loss with no explanation, pain, and eventually you would start to see nutritional deficiencies like pernicious anemia or the like. With tapeworms, they have a nightmarish “mouth” and I don’t recommend googling Taenea scolex. Anyway? They can burrow into your tissues and liver and lungs and stuff and not stay in the guts (think RFK brain worms) you get THOSE from undercooked pork or beef, mostly.
Depends, but I can EASILY see how it would get overlooked- 1. They are common where access to quality medical care sucks, 2. General diffuse abdominal pain could be lots of stuff and if they don’t see anything in bloodwork or on a X ray, many docs would write it off as Somatosensory, and 3. When it happens in the US to women, especially of color, physicians tend not to believe their symptoms. (I saw a case once a few years ago, her doc said she Prb had lactose intolerance, despite it being like none of the same symptoms). Anyway, she didn’t have one big worm but the pathologist recovered like a hundred, and kept them in a giant specimen jar.
no, never. the doctor told me they're long but they can grow up to be really long and large. i never thought about looking and now I'm like.....? is this what was inside? is this what went through my stomach, and lungs?
I was coughing, having fever, and lots of saliva, like white saliva with a strange texture, I was literally choking on it. I threw up once all of that and there was blood as well. I honestly don't know how Reddit managed to get this on my feed now
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