why is there what appears to be an earthworm at the bottom of my toilet?

[kittywise]

It LOOKS like an earth worm ,it is small and pink.
Yuk, where has it come from? None of the kids has been digging around in the garden for ages.
I fished it out and it's wriggling around, looks a bit water logged though
Do you think one of them ate it and now it's come out again (sick)?
Anyone else had this? Or indeed even more gross findings in the toilet bowl (double sick)

there have actually been a few threads on this type of thing, do a search for worms and toilets.

It wouldn't go through the digestive system and come out intact. Let alone intact and alive!

It may well be some other intestinal worm?

Ta, I will!!! Had never occured to me that this happened to a lot of people!

is there no way a worm could have got into the house atall?

i would defo do a google image search on intestinal worms to check it hasnt come from a bottom.

i have never had a worm in the toilet personally.slugs in the kitchen,maggots under the sofa,but no worms.i did find some blue crayon in a nappy this morning though

I had worms in my student house toilet since we had a cracked pipe in the sewage outlet somewhere. I hate to say this but is there anyway that you have a cracked pipe in your toilet system they could have wriggled though and up to your loo? I got quite used to slugs on the walls and bath and worms in the loo. David Bellamy would have had a field day every morning seeing what had crawled out of the pipes overnight .

The nicer alternative is that one of your dcs dropped it down the loo and it was a one-off.

Flush the toilet and think no more of it - head in the sand approach always works for me

What a mystery!!

lets look at the options we have so far:

1 dDopped out of some poor bugger's bum after nesting in their colon
2 Swallowed but undigested, then dropped out of some poor bugger's bum
3 Dropped into loo by one of the DCs
4 Got in through leaky pipe

I reckon its No 3

Have you got a cat? My sister's old cat used to bring in worms. I don't think she ever dropped them down the loo though .

ooh, no idea but I look forward to you finding out now!

Its come into the toilet with the water when you've flushed. It does happen sometimes. I used to work for a water board and people were forever ringing the call centre moaning about worms dropping out of taps, etc.

oh, I see . How do they wriggle upwards I wonder?