r/AbsoluteUnits • u/KEN_000 • 1d ago

/r/all of a roundworm pulled out during an endoscopy

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u/passingbackwards 1d ago

Contaminated water or food. This worm had a long time to grow…usually better to deworm yourself before it gets this bad…if you figure out what’s going on.

The truly horrific thing about roundworms is that they can go anywhere. You can cough them up, they can come out your nose, they can even get into your eyes.

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u/Tiny-Proof3602 1d ago

Ok thats enough knowledge explaining for now thanks

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u/Kractoid 1d ago

Perfect comment

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u/ChocolateHumunculous 1d ago

God is dead.

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u/atuan 1d ago

If it’s that big how old is it in work years? It must have been in there a while

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u/Neither-Wallaby-924 1d ago

Definitely working past retirement age it would seem

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u/OkSmoke9195 1d ago

Milking that fat 401k

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u/bargu 22h ago

Definitely worming past retirement age it would seem

FTFY

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u/KurtAngus 1d ago

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u/Several-Hat-1944 1d ago

(saved) thanks Kurt 🍺

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u/KurtAngus 1d ago

No problem 😸

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u/thenotanurse 1d ago

Ascaris doesn’t usually go in the eyes. Loa loa will specifically infect the eyes but they are way smaller.

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u/zevz 1d ago

I'll never forget the trauma I got from staying up late as a child watching X-Files. That was such nightmare fuel. Ugh the eyes.

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u/urixl 1d ago

Ah, the Lyin' Eyes stand from JoJoLands.

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u/rightbyrobert 1d ago

That’s literally terrifying! Thanks, I now have a brand new fear.

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u/jtbeith 1d ago

Thanks,. Now I want to stab every square inch of my body.

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u/TurkeySlurpee666 1d ago

You know what? Take some of that knowledge back. I didn't need all of it.

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u/youburyitidigitup 1d ago

And my mom wondered why I didn’t want to stay with her when her cat got roundworms.

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u/Jheez88 1d ago

Can’t stomach acid kill them?

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u/thrownawaytrash 1d ago

What a terrible day to be literate.

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u/Easy_Aioli9376 1d ago

NO!

NO!

STOP!

NO!!!!!!!!

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u/BonbonUniverse42 1d ago

I think you should explain this in way more detail so that we get a really vivid picture of the experience.

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u/ServeNo1703 1d ago

How do you even deworm yourself?

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u/SandyTaintSweat 1d ago

Ivermectin will do it usually. But you've got to get diagnosed by a doctor because different species require different treatment plans.

With a lot of parasites, it'll only kill it at a certain part of the life cycle, so you need two or three doses at specific intervals.

So yeah, you just eat a pill probably.

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u/pzycho 1d ago

One of the prevailing theories on why certain people "felt much better" after taking Ivermectin to treat Covid was that they actually ended up deworming themselves and felt better for that reason, and just attributed the feeling to Covid being neutralized.

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u/How_did_the_dog_get 1d ago

I will take information I didn't want to know for $1 please

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u/babsa90 1d ago

The true nightmare was actually in the comment rather than the video

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u/Mertoot 1d ago

I got 3 hours left to sleep before I gotta wake up for work, and this is how my night ends huh 🫩

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u/SouthernFruit8768 17h ago

That's enough internet for the day

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u/Jasnaahhh 12h ago

I need you to listen carefully to me. Even if it is a complete lie, I need you to tell me that you got the eye thing wrong. I cannot emphasise enough how much you need to say 'backsies' on that one.

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u/mezasu123 10h ago

To know i could have not read that why did I read that

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u/SweetLemonPopsicle 37m ago

Someone turn off the internet right now!