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Is there a worm that lives in your foot?

  • 23-11-2006 5:05pm
    #1
    gary the great
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    random question:

    IS there a worm that can live in your foot? I know the likes of threadworm etc live in the gut, but im sure i heard of one that can burrow into the foot as well, mostly found in tropical places.

    I ask cos we were having a discussion at lunch in work and im nearly sure there is but a colleauge said its total crap and i want to prove him wrong :p We checked on google and couldnt really find anything so he just presumes hes right.

    Note: Im excluding Athlethes foot (ringworm).


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  • #2
    Blub2k4
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    I've heard this before, try rotten.com, there used to be some medical curios there


  • #3
    Victor
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    Guinea worms tend to come our of your ankle / foot.


  • #4
    Pet
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    It's a hookworm you're thinking of, you can get it by walking barefoot on soil that has eggs in it.


  • #5
    gary the great
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    Pet wrote:
    It's a hookworm you're thinking of, you can get it by walking barefoot on soil that has eggs in it.


    ye Pet that could be it, but im sure this worm actually lived in the foot full time. When i was in thailand an irish lad was showing me his foot, it was red, itchy and showed burrows around the foot (it looked like a worm burrowing around the inside of the skin in the foot), he said it was like that about 5 or 6 weeks so he got some Vermox and was taking them for a week with no change. I told him to go to a doctor. Dunno if he did or not, never really talked to him again.

    If that was hookworm would it not of migrated into his stomach?And be killed by Vermox?


  • #6
    eth0_
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    It is a guinea worm. I remember one of the blue peter appeals when I was a kid was to aid children who'd got the worm...you never forget seeing those video.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_worm


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  • #7
    gary the great
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    No pet is right its definetly the Hookworm. I was reading up and researching and the Hookworm causes "creeping eruption" and intense itching in the foot. I seen pictures of it and its identical to what this lad had. It usually stays in the foot as it cant break down the barrier behind the skin, so just lives under the skin trying to find its niche, which it never will as its ment to be in a dog not a human.
    If not treated it usually dies after a few months, which is good as this lad was not going to the dentist!


  • #8
    deisemum
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    In this week's Full House magazine (issue 47) page 31 has photographs of the worm trails under the surface of a woman's foot. :eek: She picked it up on hols


  • #9
    gary the great
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    Ye thats what this worm is, its fairly harmless though as it just dies after a while and doesnt really cause any pain except for maybe an itch.

    BTW i won 20quid on the bet!


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