i suspect i have tapeworms inside me
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no! don't shrug it off!!!! tmr is not a better day! tmr is DOCTOR DAY!!!Originally posted by jamz:i think my one 100m liao la. carl lewis take sub 10s to run from head to tail
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Its not like they're gonna eat you from the inside out or something.
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i just realized this was in 'Food'
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how? how????? see doctor liao?? got tapeworms or not??
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Originally posted by jamz:clinic doc can liao right?
or must visit specialist later kena poke form behind
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wrong forumOriginally posted by finoq:i just realized this was in 'Food'
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Reminds me of RESIDENT EVIL.....
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Yikes!! gross !!Originally posted by dotaro:Reminds me of RESIDENT EVIL.....
Parasites living in your body and explode out of you all of the sudden.... -
Aiyah...just go to doctor. He will prescribe medicine for you to purge out or kill the worms wan...
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Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
Tapeworms can grow to several metres
When Tanya Andrews returned from a recent family holiday in Costa Rica, she had no idea she had brought back a gruesome souvenir.
A month later she developed an extremely painful lump on her head.
At first, she thought she had an abscess, but then it wriggled.
At the Hospital for Tropical Diseases they recognised the problem straight away - it was the living maggot larva of a botfly.
While Tanya was enjoying her holiday a mosquito had delivered a tiny botfly egg onto the surface of her scalp.
The egg hatched into a maggot and burrowed deep inside. Incredibly, this happens to thousands of people every year.
As we travel to ever more exotic holiday destinations, we are at the mercy of a whole range of bizarre parasites just waiting to colonise us.
Strange nosebleeds
The Botfly larva pulled from Tanya's head
Soon after travel writer, Broughton Coburn, returned from Nepal he began to experience regular, inexplicable nosebleeds.
They continued for three weeks until an embarrassing encounter in a teashop made him realise that something was seriously wrong.
As he was being served, the waiter took one look at him and fled in horror.
Broughton chased him down the street urging him to tell him what was wrong. But the boy would only point, wordlessly, at his nose.
Broughton returned home and sat in trepidation in front of a mirror.
His patience was rewarded when a brown worm-like creature emerged from his right nostril and looked around.
"I swear it had two beady eyes on it. And it came out two or three inches, looked around and then retracted. I thought it was a dream, a vision of some sort."
A thirsty aquatic leech
In shock, Broughton rushed off to his doctor who tried to remove the mysterious creature.
But it wasn't going to give up its home easily.
"He had this thing pulled out eight or ten inches and I'm looking at it cross-eyed down the end of my nose, and he's looking at it, he has a look of absolute horror on his face. And the thing came off. And there was this leech."
Broughton had been invaded by an aquatic leech. It made its move while he was drinking from a mountain stream.
These thirsty bloodsuckers can drink three times their bodyweight at each feed and inject an anaesthetic so their victim feels nothing.
Welcome visitor
But not all parasites are unwanted and uninvited.
As part of a University of Salford experiment to develop a diagnostic test for beef tapeworm, biologist Mike Leahy volunteered to grow this gruesome parasite inside his own gut.
Mike swallowed the immature tapeworm cyst with a glass of red wine and the worm started to grow at an initial rate of four centimetres a week.
Twelve weeks later he had to call a halt to the unusual experiment because he was getting married!
The tapeworm cyst that Dr Leahy ate
After a dose of anti-worm pill Mike passed out an intact tapeworm three metres long.
Disgusted? Well according to Dr Val Curtis, an expert on hygiene, this reaction is a natural survival mechanism.
"In the same way that you have an immune system which helps to protect you from parasites we also have a behavioural system.
"When you feel the emotion of disgust it is a driver of your behaviour to make you keep away from or drop the thing that might be about to make you sick."
And, it seems, we need all the protection we can get. Every living thing has at least one parasite and many creatures, including humans, have far more.
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I got a question ....
How the doctor (GP also can right?) know u got tapeworm(or whatever worm) or not -
without readin ur post..i tot it was a piece of char siew
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Tapeworms are flat, ribbon like parasites sometime found in the intestines of human beings. Eggs of tape worm are expelled in human feces, they may infect a personÂ’s hands, food he touches, and objects he puts in his mouth. If swallowed by a human being, the eggs hatch in the personÂ’s intestines and develop into mature worms.Originally posted by mhcampboy:wads tapeworm?
Animal tapeworms and fish tapeworms are from 12 to 30 feet long. Eggs are eaten by animal grazing on moist pasture contaminated with infected feces or sewage. The eggs hatch into larvae which lodge in the muscle tissues. The infection is common among people who eat meat or fish meat that is raw or merely seared. -
Round worms are large, tubular worms that look like ordinary earth worms and may be as much as 16 inches long and as thick as a pencil. Children are most likely to be infested. Most victim harbor a dozen worms, but in severe cases there maybe hundreds.
Round worms eggs are most often found in soil around unsanitary toilet facilities. The eggs generally are carried to the mouth by dirty hand or objects, and by vegetables and fruits fertilized with human excrement and not properly washed. The adult worm settles in the channel of small intestine. Each day it expels some 200,000 eggs, which are carried out in the hostÂ’s faces and may spread infection.
In mild infestations, symptoms are usually vague and erratic. The first clear sign of worm infection may come only with the victimÂ’s vomiting a worm or finding one in his bowel movement or in his bed. Heavy infection may cause such digestive disturbance as cramps, abdominal pain, and vomiting. The victim may tire easily but sleep poorly because of general restlessness.
If the worms migrate from intestine, they may cause severe damage to the liver and gallbladder. Fatal cases of peritonitis have resulted from worms penetrating the intestinal wall. Before intestine, larvae of the worm migrate to the lungs, where they may cause a respiratory disease called pneumonitis.
Effective treatment is possible through drugs administered by a physician, most often piperazine citrate(Antepar) and pyrvinium pamoate.(Povan) -
i eat a lot but i dont grow much in mass.
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hey...now this thread is related to FOOD!!Originally posted by alexkusu:without readin ur post..i tot it was a piece of char siew
tapeworms that look like char siew... -
Relax and calm down. Forget all the nonsense posting which are frightening you. See a doctor or a Chinese Physician for medications.
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There is an off the shelf treatment for all kinds of worms, I take it twice a year as part of a cleansing process. It's called zentel.