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my friend told me she has had threadworms for 10 years

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ineedapoo · 12/12/2007 18:46

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

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Vulgar · 12/12/2007 20:24

I feel even more queasy now.

and what a knowledge lot you are.

i would have rather been unenlightened.

boak!

Vulgar · 12/12/2007 20:25

knowledgable, even!

TinyTimsGangGawdBlessUs1andAll · 12/12/2007 20:25

Inhale them? OMG..how?

onebatmotherofgoditschilly · 12/12/2007 20:27

by ... breathing?

oh jeezum that is hideous.. HIDEOUS!!!

really really?

how do they get from lungs to arse?

TEUCHywithallthetrimmings · 12/12/2007 20:27

good marketing campaign for veganism though...

"CHOOSE WORMS!"

No, sorry...I would be bum-checking at this very moment if I were you...

TinyTimsGangGawdBlessUs1andAll · 12/12/2007 20:29

By breathing in near a bum though?

onebatmotherofgoditschilly · 12/12/2007 20:30

ye-es. I see your point.

oh bollocks though i did that to ds the other day in an 'is it bath-month' kind of way..

Blandmum · 12/12/2007 20:30

Thread worms lay their eggs around the anus.

The eggs cause itching, you scratch, bit your nails and re-infest yourself. This is one method. Ditto kids passing the eggs round in the sand pit.

Once one member of the family has them, the eggs can be passed from person to person via the lungs.

The eggs are microscopic and fly into the air when you make beds, sort clothing etc. You breathe in the eggs, which go down deep into the lungs.

There are tiny hairs in the lungs called cilia when beat dirt and dust , bacteria, and eggs which get trappen in mucus produced by goblet cells (great name eh??) up and up the bronchi and trachea until the mucus and crud tips into the oesophagus (this happens all the time btw, we just don't sense it happening).

The eggs pass into the stomach, and are protected from the acid. they then pass into the alkali small intestine, where the hatch, and the whole merry process starts all over again.

Some female thread worms actually allow themselves to dry out at the anus, so they explode and send their microscopic eggs floating in the air!

onebatmotherofgoditschilly · 12/12/2007 20:32

oh
my
god

TinyTimsGangGawdBlessUs1andAll · 12/12/2007 20:32
onebatmotherofgoditschilly · 12/12/2007 20:33

now that really is what i call a bombshell

TinyTimsGangGawdBlessUs1andAll · 12/12/2007 20:33

A bumshell even

onebatmotherofgoditschilly · 12/12/2007 20:33

bloody good luck i don't make beds or sort clothing as well as not bathing batlings

Blandmum · 12/12/2007 20:34

Well, you did ask!

TinyTimsGangGawdBlessUs1andAll · 12/12/2007 20:35

Thank you MB...I've said it before..ye know.....tooo much!

TEUCHywithallthetrimmings · 12/12/2007 20:35

ffs!! forget the bum-checking!!

This is much better than the bbc thread...

sallystrawberry · 12/12/2007 20:36

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ineedapoo · 12/12/2007 20:36

right i am going to ring her and ask if she was serious

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Blandmum · 12/12/2007 20:39

The last bit I knew, this I did have to google

'
In vitro and in vivo work suggests that mebendazole blocks the uptake of glucose by adult and larval forms of helminths, in a selective and irreversible manner. Inhibition of glucose uptake appears to lead to endogenous depletion of glycogen stores within the helminth. Lack of glycogen leads to decreased formation of ATP and ultrastructural changes in the cells.'

In other words it starves the little feckers to death.

Good!

{grin]

Peachy · 12/12/2007 20:39

Doesn't ovex work by paralysing the worms so they can be passed without them laying eggs?

onebatmotherofgoditschilly · 12/12/2007 20:39

dyou think ineedapoo is screaming down phone right now, or quietly stating her case that friend might be slightly irresponsible wafting arse eggs around?

frostythesnowmum · 12/12/2007 20:40

Ask her if you can post a pic of her on here I need to see what this womwn looks like

ineedapoo · 12/12/2007 20:40

she is engaged my friend and her wormery are on the phone

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sallystrawberry · 12/12/2007 20:41

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expatinscotland · 12/12/2007 20:41

i shouldn't have opened this thread whilst eating.