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OMFG I think that was a TAPEWORM! Help! (warning gross stuff in this post)

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madamez · 13/08/2007 15:05

OK so went to have a quick pee and, on lifting the lid, spotted something wriggling in the pan. Oh, methinks, a caterpiller, tough luck on it... wait a minute....It was white and segmented and had a kind of long, darker tail. And I have been Googling pictures of tapeworms and now I am petrified! How did I get that? How can I cure it? Arrgh!

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FioFio · 13/08/2007 15:06

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Tigana · 13/08/2007 15:07

??? you pissed out a tapeworm???? they are digestive tract not urinary tract aren't they?

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madamez · 13/08/2007 15:09

No it was in the pan before I went (had a poop eariler in the day) - but DS still in nappies so it wasn't from him. Will go to chemist later.

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totaleclipse · 13/08/2007 15:11

You will need to get ds treated too.

Roastchicken · 13/08/2007 15:14

TMI - but I had a tapeworm a few years ago after excessive consumption of rare beef in Belgium. If it is, then there would be individual cream flat worms - like little pieces of linguini. There weren't segments or a tail. The flat part is critical - if it isn't flat then its something else. Although gross, its really easy to get rid of. You need to take a sample stool to the doctors and be really insistent. The tablets may need to be imported, but they take less than a day to work and though gross its painless.

I haven't eaten any rare meat since. Though it was the only time in my life I had a really flat stomach and could eat what I wanted.

moondog · 13/08/2007 15:16

Maria Callas swallowed a tapeworm on purpose to keep her slim.Roast,was yuor stomach flat during tapeworm infestation then?Is that what alerted you to its presence?

LizaRose · 13/08/2007 15:24

There are different kinds of tapeworm, some are small segments like flattened grains of rice but others can be several feet long.

Roastchicken · 13/08/2007 15:33

TMI again - The actual tapeworm was about a metre or so long when it came out. But individual segments broke off which were about an inch - and as I remember they were smooth but I didn't look too closely. I spotted it due to noticing a segment move - I had thought it was undigested pasta. I did not sleep that night. However, if its younger, then I guess pieces would be smaller.

Moondog - I thought my flat stomach was due to having more exercise. I was a bit puzzled as I'd eat lunch, and then still be hungry. Though, I'd certainly never have one voluntarily.

Dropdeadfred · 13/08/2007 15:34

where can i buy one?
Actually i think i'm serious

MamaG · 13/08/2007 15:35

I wish I had at apeworm

moondog · 13/08/2007 15:36

Tapeworms must eat a hell of a lot though eh?

Maybe they could work on a species that gets to work on large quantities of wine...

moondog · 13/08/2007 15:37

RC,you actually crapped a metre of tapeworm?
Respect.
All gory details please.
Did it have to be er....helped out by your good self?

Tinker · 13/08/2007 15:37

The actual tapeworm was about a metre or so long when it came out

MamaG · 13/08/2007 15:38

or worse, did you DH have to help it out?

Roastchicken · 13/08/2007 15:50

As I said - I haven't touched rare meat since!! It was painless but bloody traumatic - and I'll leave the rest of the details to your imagination. The description doesn't really sound like one though.

Having said that, I got given tablets before the results of the stool test were back. The stool tests results were negative despite flushing a 1m tapeworm down the loo the day before. IME doctors are really useless at things that are outside the norm. If in London the hospital for weird and wonderful tropical diseases is the place to go. Though they couldn't believe that I'd just been to Belgium, and kept asking me if I'd malaria.

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moondog · 13/08/2007 15:53

Ooh!!!

My sister had some weird maggot in her knee after a trip to Bolivia (kept on popping its head out and waving at her she reckoned)Like you RC she said bog standard doctors had no idea and she had to go to Liverpool school of Tropical Medicine to have it out.

MamaG · 14/08/2007 12:31

cooool

helpimgrossedout · 10/12/2009 21:57

Help I'm really grossed out! My 7 year old son just came downstairs after having a poo and said he saw a worm pop out of his poo. I went to have a look but he said he'd flushed it away cos he was scared it would jump out. He says it was about 35-40 cms long and it was wriggling. WHAT DO I DO I'M REALLY GROSSED OUT??

bruxeur · 11/12/2009 02:21

Buy a little hat and cane, and teach it the foxtrot.

RichardCranium · 11/12/2009 11:14
giraffespullthesleigh · 11/12/2009 11:28

Did the op never come back and explain what happened? How am I supposed to sleep now...

LastOfTheMulledWine · 11/12/2009 11:34

grossed out, does he have an itchy bottom?

deaddei · 11/12/2009 15:30

OMG I have just read this.
I have a hangover still from last night and now think I'm going to throw up.

WhoIsAskingSantaForCake · 11/12/2009 15:41

bruxeur - HARRRR! Oh you cow, I'm at work!