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We pooed worms

52 replies

BowlOfWorms · 19/12/2011 22:26

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?

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BowlOfWorms · 19/12/2011 22:59

I was going to. I went to the pharmacy to buy some, and explained to the pharmacist, and he said that it did not sound like the kind of worm that the prescription free treatment would actually treat.

He recommend we all give stool samples and bring to the gp with the worm.

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snowmaiden · 19/12/2011 23:00

You are making me feel all funny....

thisisyesterday · 19/12/2011 23:03

post a picture of it!

Sparklingbaubles · 19/12/2011 23:04

Oh god Bowl that's not fun is it? What are you going to do? I would be tempted to use the Ovex anyway.

Teaandchristmascakeplease · 19/12/2011 23:07

Do you think it maybe a round worm. You do not get an itchy bottom with those. www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Roundworm/Pages/Symptoms.aspx

Teaandchristmascakeplease · 19/12/2011 23:09

I just clicked on the diagnosis tab and it says to take a small stool sample to the doctors Hmm

thisisyesterday · 19/12/2011 23:09

"passing a worm in your vomit, stools or through one of your nostril"

that is just nasty!

Teaandchristmascakeplease · 19/12/2011 23:10

LOL it is a bit, isn't it. Sorry OP I'm not trying to worry you.

Sparklingbaubles · 19/12/2011 23:10

You will need to get the samples in quick to get any results before Christmas. Can you just show the Gp the worm first?

BillyBigBaubles · 19/12/2011 23:10

Was there not a very similar thread a while ago and lots of people can on to say that you can get worms in the toilet bowl from the sewerage system. It definately doesn't sound like thread worms.

Sparklingbaubles · 19/12/2011 23:11

I really feel for the OP I know I would be frantic. Sad

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BowlOfWorms · 19/12/2011 23:24

I did not see the other thread.

There is only one thing to do, is there not? Bring in a sample.

Cheers guys....

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wobblypig · 19/12/2011 23:26

Ascaris lumbricoides?

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BowlOfWorms · 19/12/2011 23:29
Shock

OMG!!

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FannyFifer · 19/12/2011 23:30

If it was all alone in the loo minus poo, I would think it coming up from the pipe would be most likely reason.

zeeboo · 19/12/2011 23:32

Anyone else DYING to know why she knows it's not an earthworm and why she can't tell us? Or is that just me?

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BowlOfWorms · 19/12/2011 23:36

Hopefully it is just you, lol.

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FannyFifer · 19/12/2011 23:40

I need to know how you know it's not an earthworm as well.

Go on tell us, go on go on go on.

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BowlOfWorms · 19/12/2011 23:46

You know, I really cant. For some insane and totally absurd reason, it will out my normal posting name.

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Sparklingbaubles · 20/12/2011 08:14

Good luck with whatever you chose to do re poo/worm/GP Bowl. Smile

ameliagrey · 20/12/2011 16:00

If anyone has been overseas you can catch other types of worms/parasites.

Have you googled Intestinal worms in humans?

I agree it is more likely to have come in the house/loo from outside.

don't know why you think saying how would out you- everyone has a loo and even with no garden, worms can crawl into houses!

ameliagrey · 20/12/2011 16:02

www.intestinalworms.net/

here- anything that looks like it? come back and tell us Smile

SuperSesame · 20/12/2011 16:06

The red brown colour makes me think its a drain fly/moth and the worm is the larvae. We had a problem with them and the larvae moves like a worm in the bathroom because of the dampness. I guess it could be living in a drain in or near the toilet bowl.
Google the drain moth larvae to see if it looks the same.

Sparklingbaubles · 20/12/2011 16:09

I am learning things on here that I am not sure I want to know about.

Elibean · 20/12/2011 20:18

Calm down, Bowl Smile

We had this once, in an upstairs toilet - it looked like an earthworm, it was an earthworm, it had apparently crawled up the pipe. This is not uncommon, it happens when the pipework (the outside, under the ground part) is cracked - which happens in old-ish houses. Especially happens after rain, it seems.

I googled myself silly, and honestly this is what I found out - and although I freaked and treated myself for roundworm just in case Blush no one else ever pooed a worm, nor did I, and it never happened again. Plus, it wasn't in poo - it was in 'clean' toilet bowl water.

I would bet anything that your worm didn't come from any of you, but from the waste pipe - really.

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