SHRIEK!! Live worm in the toilet bowl...........

[liath]

I don't suppose there is any chance it didn't come from someone's bottom is there?

About 2-3 inches long, fairly thin and it was WRIGGLING. Bleurgh. Stool samples all round I think .

eewwwwww

it could just be a stray worm gone the wrong way on its mid afternoon walk...

Sorry but ROFL, I love MN

2-3 inches long is far too long to be a pinworm/threadworm from what I know. Pinworms look like little tiny threads not "fairly thin" and 2-3 inches long.

Does it look like an earthworm?

did it look like an earthworm or not???

x with NCQ!

Could it be a tape worm?

Looked thinner than an earthworm. Too big for a threadowrm and no itchy bums in the house. Feeling a bit sick since I saw it.......

Or part of a tape worm even?

erm hate to say this but where else would it have come from? or have you got an 8 year old boy who might have dug up some earth worms and put them there for a joke?

Didn't look like a tapeworm (have been researching worms frantically since seeing the ruddy thing) but am clutching at the "maybe it got there another way" straw .

definatly not one of those strawbeery lace things, undigested?

strawberry

Good theory, Quootie but unfortunately it was wriggling fairly vigorously....

Where is it now? Fish it out and photograph it and see if someone can identify it? Or take it to the GP or pharmacist?

Why don't you google images of worms and see if there any that it looks like. Work backwards as it were.

maybe a DC ate a worm? They are pretty hardy...

Eeew! I suppose a 20 month old would eat anything.

The evidence has been flushed.

don't google human worms - one image is horrific!

is this old 'thread' (LOL) any help

do you have pets? sounds a bit like the type of worms cat get but didn't think they were transferable to humans. how old are your kids? any of them young enough to have been playing with cat poo but old enough bring the worm inside and drop it in the toilet?

is it just on its own in the toilet? surely if it had come out in poo it would have been flushed with the poo?

It really really doesn't sound like a normal human worm. I suspect this is a stray earthworm, or something else random. If it looked reasonably like an earthworm, and nobody in the family has been anywhere exciting recently, or is suffering any "interesting" symptoms, I'd assume it was just a stray earthworm and leave it be.

What colour was it? Pinworms are white/clear.

It was red/pink.

Think I'll drop off a poo sample from dd's nappy & see what turns up.....

Had a look at the other thread, was it any of these

not for the faint hearted!

the worms cats get are red and pink too