HELP! <<boaksome>>

[Ifeelsicknow]

Just got back from holiday.

Went to bathroom.

Lifted toilet lid.

Found about 5 long, pinkish-brown worms wriggling around in the water.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! How long have they been there? Whose bum did they come from? Was it the venison burgers? The sushi? The turkey twizzlers and Fruit Shoots? (Headline: Fruit Shoots' Evil Bum Worms Kill Mum of Two, Robinsons Deny Murder)

I do feel rather ill.

So. Is it me? DH? DS? Neither of us has any symptoms. Except that now I'm hyperconscious of every little sound/ movement in my belly.

Have made appointment with GP for next week but until then I feel rather wan and in need of support!

ALSO I'm a breastfeeding mama, so my mind is doing yet more gymnastic leaps of the imagination: Ifeelsicknow is hugely infected with massive 100 foot long tapeworm which can only be destroyed with nuclear bomb, forced to stop breastfeeding so as to not inadvertently pass on radiation sickness to DD, DD refuses to take milk from bottle and becomes horribly dehydrated and malnourished, contrary to all expectations Ifeelsicknow FAILS TO SURVIVE NHS nuclear bomb treatment and dies horrible death, leaving DD with no source of precious liquid gold mama milk and so she wastes away, DH and DS die of broken hearts, etc etc).

Good god I am never this melodramatic. Somebody slap me.

Have namechanged to preserve my dignity. Please don't try to guess who I am.

Are you certain the worms came out of someone and didn't come up the drain/toilet somehow? - there has been a lot of rain recently.

I would calm down (easier said than done I know). Watch out for any more worms, and if you see any, catch one so the GP can identify it, and thus treat it more easily.

Where did you go on holiday, was it somewhere you are likely to get parasites?

If you see any more worms, after using toilet or in poo (i.e. they're definitely from a person) I would go to a walk in centre or ring NHS direct, to get advice about treatment.

Just tell yourself they crawled up the toilet :)

Might be parasitic, but this suggests it may be due to heavy rainfall

Kurri - I won't say where we went as some MNers know me and know where I've been! But actually the worm were waiting for u when we got back.

purpleduck - thank you!! Just what the doctor ordered (as well as a stool sample).

Hmm...came up the drain, huh? that is possible, I didn't know it had been raining (it's been sunny where we were...want to go back...)

Am feeling slightly calmer and not just because of the slap!

worms are treated ALL THE TIME at GPs. on that description the whole family'll get treated (not the baby)... a bit grim but not a problem really

Sounds like earthworms that have crawled up the rainpipe. They do, sometimes - we had one manage to get to the toilet on the second floor in August (after rain). We had a cracked waste pipe, it turned out.

I spent a good few days feeling sick/worming entire family though, before believing dh (who knew all along and laughed at me)

ps before someone helpfully tells you they are probably roundworm, roundworm are yellowy white, not pinky brown.