Tapeworm? Threadworm? Pic - TMI

[Wormzilla]

Family member said they'd had a really long piece of spinach come out when they went to the toilet. We've all had dodgy tummies for a few weeks, mine is starting to settle with odd cramps here and there so when they said this, alarm bells started ringing.

I had a look and this is what has come out...

I tried to rip it between some toilet paper and it felt slightly rubbery.

Could it be a thread or tapeworm?

Tapeworms are segmented.
They are also quite white in the pic I’ve seen, even when still covered In faeces.

Can you see any segments?
No sense of scale with that picture really. Is it one square of tp long or more? Would someone have eaten something that long without chewing?

Looks more like a piece of beetroot or the rib in a piece of chard 👀

It's too big for a threadworm. Could be tapeworm, but I'd say more likely to be something fibrous they have eaten.

Spinach?
Cabbage?
Looks like food rather than parasite

No, it's not segmented. It's not a roundworm either. Looks like a bit of plant.

It's just a piece of undigested food because you've had a stomach bug.

Tapeworms have segments and you are highly unlikely to get one in the UK.

@SweetAsIcedChocolate I cannot think of a single thing said child has eaten that it could be. I even asked if it might be sellotape. It was about 10cm long and continuous with a rubbery bounce back when pulled slightly. It's unfortunately been flushed and the rest of the toilet was buried in tissue. Like all of us have been, DC has had an urgency to go to the toilet for poop but the other day they did say downstairs was itchy.

DC has been complaining about their tummy for months with blood tests, tummy prodded, etc so I also wondered if they were patient zero with all our painful, urgent and extreme toileting in the house for the last few weeks.

Tapeworms have segments that are excreted in faeces.

Roundworms are small.

That looks like a piece of undigested plant fibre.

Looks like some kind of vegetable matter to me.

Looks a little bit like a bean sprout.