worms

The only way to check is by looking at your eyeball. If your eyeball is flecked then you have worms.

Did you know that some form of worm type thing that exists in tropical places can only be taken out when it walks across your eyeball. When it walks across your eyeball you pluck it off your eyeball and hence stop the worm infection. It's true, look it up.

Then theres the worms that traverse up your urethra upon your taking a pee in tropical waters. They feel the heat from your warm urine and traverse up the warm urine trail into your bladder.

Worms are sneaky wee beggars.

All joking aside, I think pigface has worms... he might know. But i heard your ass gets real itchy if you have them... ahhh where's DrIndy when you need him!

I'm here!

Did you know that some form of worm type thing that exists in tropical places can only be taken out when it walks across your eyeball. When it walks across your eyeball you pluck it off your eyeball and hence stop the worm infection. It's true, look it up.

Rare thing over here - and you can't pick them off to stop the infection as there are loads of the little buggers.....

Then theres the worms that traverse up your urethra upon your taking a pee in tropical waters. They feel the heat from your warm urine and traverse up the warm urine trail into your bladder.

Thats actually a catfish, its about 2" long and very thin with a load of reverse pointing spines and once it swims up your urine stream, lodges in your urethra because the spines prevent its removal. Moral of that story is, never pee directly into water if you are in the amazon basin....

There are loads of different species of intestinal worms, enclosed is some information from medline for those who are interested.....

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/parasiticdiseases.html

There's a tape worm being extracted. In days gone by, you had to starve yourself for like a couple of weeks, then hold meat in front of your mouth, and it's crawl out while you were awake etc.

John

No.

The are used to clear blood clots and stuff.

John

DrIndy wrote:

Thats actually a catfish, its about 2" long and very thin with a load of reverse pointing spines and once it swims up your urine stream, lodges in your urethra because the spines prevent its removal. Moral of that story is, never pee directly into water if you are in the amazon basin....

It would be quite physically impossible for anything to swim up your urine stream which is accelerating downwards through the air. The key word here submerged. Don't pee while submerged in water in the amazon basin. Sorry to be a stickler
But indy how likely is it that any of us have worms? I've never been de-wormed even though I've lived with dogs all my life and have had to de-worm them on numerous occasions. Reckon I should get me some of that dog medecine? Seriously!?

Lump wrote:

No.

The are used to clear blood clots and stuff.

John

Leeches have growing medical use, the pharmaceutically purified form of their anticoagulant (blood thinner) is called Hirudin and is used in certain circumstances when people are allergic to other blood thinners.

Leeches that have been irradiated (to sterilise them) are sometimes used by some plastic surgeons in the USA to relieve blood congestion when they reattach a skin flap thats has been torn off during a traumatic incident.

Maggots are used too! Maggots can only feed on dead and rotting tissue and so they are used to treat infected feet that diabetics can sometime have. They are used in britain and are also irradiated for sterility. They will literally keep eating until there is no dead or infected tissue left and leave the wound spruced and cleaned. Once you get past the :eek: factor, they are very effective.

Worms come in all shapes, sizes and species. There is a lengthy list of different medicines needed dependent on the species. Most parasites are adapted to their role. It is not in their interest to harm the host too much as their survival is dependent on the hosts survival too. The trouble arises when worms adapted for a different animal (like dog, cat or pig) manage to infect a human. Their metabolism is out of sync and they start to do damage as a result. Tapeworms are a classic example of this. If you ingest the eggs, they can form hydatid cysts (sacs of fluid containing the parasite) that form in the liver, lungs and brain which are nasty.

Flecked? How do you mean?

This is filariasis - they are small nematodes that migrate throughout the body and can sometimes be seen as floaters when they swim across the tear film of your eye.......

They also cause elephantiasis where they obstruct the fluid drainage from (commonly) your legs and scrotum, resulting in enormous swelling (and I do mean enormous)...... :eek:

Hence, not posting any images......

ah, why not......

http://www.okc.cc.ok.us/biologylabs/Images/Animal_Images/elephantiasis.gif

raw fish is a definite possibility - fish tapeworms are more common in Norway due to the habit of eating raw fish. Smoked salmon is probably safe as the smoking should kill it off. Remember scandinavians eat fish raw, literally, its quite tasty albeit chewy.

I don't know about parma ham - but if its the genuine product, then the companies in question will be so obsessed with protecting their trademark, it would have to be food standard safe......

Your immune system uses a group of immunce cells called eosinophils and a class of antibody called IgE to attack parasitic infections.

This is in contrast with the mechanisms for fighting viruses and bacteria where the immune cells can swallow up the smaller organisms.

Since the parasites are huge, there is a specific attack mechanism.

The pattern also noted is allergies and asthma are guess what? IgE and Eosinophil mediated. There is strong evidence that in areas where parasites are common, asthma and allergies are rare and the reverse is the case in europe.....

pwd wrote:

Well I had pretty bad asthma until I reached puberty; whereupon it disappeared. I put this down to homronal or psychological changes. If in fact it was down to me contratcing worms, then my gut feeling is that I'd rather have kept the asthma.

unlikely, some people just grow out of asthma and other allergies.

Immune system is complex and still a big learning curve on how it really works....

worms are interesting creatures, they have such a :eek: factor involved......

I spotted it and had a laugh

seen it, still trying to figure out what that actually is........ reckon its some kind of maggot......

You do get all sorts of strange critters in the southern states of the US....