We pooed worms

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My dp found a worm in the toilet bowl.
It is 4-5 cm long, red brown in colour.

It could come from any of us. Me, him, our two kids.

It is alive, and moving. It is now in a plastic box.

I have googled, but am none the wiser.
I am literally bricking it, what could it be?

Could it be a tapeworm?

Thanks, I will have a google for image

Do any of you have tummy aches, itchy bums etc

Is it not an earthworm that the kids put there?

Tapeworms look like, well tape- flat and segmented. You can get intestinal roundworms from dogs that haven't geen wormed I believe.

But a solitary worm in a toilet bowl with no poo- I think an adult would know if that fell oh of their bum all by itself?

My vote is for a garden worm ....

Not a thread worm, they are white and tiny.
I guess it isn't an ordinary gardern worm.
We've had a frog in our loo. Don't ask it's an old house, I get mice, slugs, ants and slow worms an earth worm would not surprise me, especially if you've brought in any pot plants or greenery for Christmas.

Cross posted.

Do you have a cat that could have helped the worm into the toilet?

garden worm is impossible. Trust me. I cant say why.

no pets.

We are all a bit under the weather. My bum has felt itchy since discovery of worm. Could be psychological.

Could it have come up the toilet pipe?

I am not sure. The pipes are old, it is an old house, I suppose it could have crawled in?

i was going to say same as theas18

did you see it IN some poo? if not i would guess it has got there some other way

Did it look like one of these ?

If it had been in your bum you would of flushed it with poo.... It's probably crawlled up pipes is my guess. Relax

this might help

fwiw i can't find much about red worms coming out your butt. most of them seem to be white

why can't it be a garden worm? you know you have to tell us don't you

one of these? <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=tubifex+worms&hl=en&sa=N&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-Address&gbv=2&biw=1024&bih=506&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=frl-YHE94yOTxM:&imgrefurl=www.fishchannel.com/freshwater-aquariums/fish-food/feeding-fish.aspx&docid=C0x0F4Gm4A0f8M&imgurl=www.fishchannel.com/images/exclusives/aquarium-fish-international/tubifex-500-c.jpg&w=500&h=367&ei=Qr7vTuuHLYey8QOshdT0CQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=4&sig=118086461063403909724&page=1&tbnh=127&tbnw=192&start=0&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=102&ty=61" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tubifex tubifex

If so you're all fine, they would have been washed up into the toilet bowl from the sewer where they live- we had some 2 years ago (basement flat, lots of rain)

I wanted to ask that Thisis.

It actually looks most like <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=whipworm+in+humans&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&rlz=1G1SVEF_ENUK452&tbm=isch&tbnid=WtGutYSP-rKLWM:&imgrefurl=www.intestinalworms.net/&docid=apejni5iZdqDsM&imgurl=www.intestinalworms.net/images/Trichuris_trichiura.jpg&w=92&h=109&ei=Db_vToyQEaqP4gS1h5n1CA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=537&vpy=331&dur=398&hovh=87&hovw=73&tx=73&ty=39&sig=100917297802735748290&page=13&tbnh=87&tbnw=73&start=132&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:132&biw=1138&bih=519" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this Whipworm

I spent an awful day thinking I had worms. Turned out DH has put some dental tape in the toilet and not flushed.

I wish I could have discovered it was dental tape... We fished it up, and put in in a box. It was moving. It has a very distinct shape, it is getting thinner at each end, rather than rounded.

I will let you know if any worms burst out through my belly.

Why don't you all have the worm treatment just in case?