my friend told me she has had threadworms for 10 years

[ineedapoo]

She is a very strict vegan and won't kill them sees them in her ... every so often. OMFG I am so shocked felt like running away

lots of illnesses are caused by living organisms:

nits
scabies
far more serious tapeworms
amoeba

and loads more things.

That is utterly disgusting and I would be disinfecting my hands as we speak. It is one thing to unwittingly carry them and quite another to deliberately spread them around everywhere.

My God, I think I'd drink bleach!

ROFL at pyjamagirls 'scoot across the floor' .

You could tell her that by good basic hygiene, regular hoovering, bedlinen washing and damp dusting and washing fruit & veg properly she would stop ingesting the eggs and/or reinfecting herself and they would go away.

She would not be killing them - she just wouldn't swallow their eggs in the first place.

Is it the hare krishna who have had trouble reconciling their position on not killing anything with the discovery that you kill living things everytime you move your foot/scratch your hand/electrocute a mongoose etc.

I can't stop thinking about this. It's so mentalist.

Is your friend mad in other important respects ineedapoo?

Has she lost her disgust reflex elsewhere too?
Do you suspect that she is secretly pleased bcs thinks that these are teh ones that keep you thin?

utter madness.

Tape worms don't make you thin either.

This is a loda crapola!

You probably have them! So yes, dose everyone up with Ovex or whatever. Crazy woman! (Your friend, not you)

Ooh it's MB....

martianbishop, I was hoping you'd come to this thread!

oh maidamess missed yours re scooting - yes, with legs fully extended in front!

I just tried it and d'you know, it's terribly difficult.

Do you think she scratches her bum?

DOES SHE HAVE LONG FINGERNAILS ineedapoo??

Did you eat food there?

oy.

Right I am mad have just put onrubber gloves and unwrapped our pressies from her and re wrapped them after wiping them down yuk yuk. She is a bit extreme

yes have had cofffee etc there no more

it's not actually that they are so disgusting that I can't deal with it - have suspected ds had them and dosed him, looked for worms coming out of his bum etc..

it's just so bizarre that she would CHOOSE WORMS that my whole world view has been rocked.

are all vegans mad? or just this one?

EEEwwwwww....bet you won't go to the loo in her house again....oh how revolting!

How does she sleep surely her bum itches all night long

she wouldn't be teasing you, would she?

She must have ingestested a threadworm egg at some point to have them in her in the first place.

She ate a worm egg and she calls herself a strict vegan?!

Somehow I don't believe your friend.

Does she have any children?

Its making my bum th just thinking about it...URGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

perhaps she sees it as a act of mercy as she didn't kill the egg but gave loads of generations of eggs a home yuk

lol tiny threadworms are murder!

Duchessofnorks, that's the Jains isn't it? The laypoelpe have to boil any water etc to kill the organisms because the monks and nuns can't do it (not just for the beings but also the fire dwelling beings etc)

Can't walk anywhere in rainy season, or eat things with lots of seeds or that grew within the soil beciuase of the amount or beings killed in that ahrvest (so no apples or potatoes etc)

Some wear cloths over their mouths to stop them inhaling beings as well. They can't fly or anything like that if they're monks or Nuns, unless they have special dispensation (met a few Nuns last year at Uni)

onebat - step away now or you will have nightmares later.

DARE YOU!

peachy - thanks for that, I really couldn't remember and you're more up on this stuff than me.

You can inhale the eggs and get infected btw