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Author Topic:   How do you remove a 30 foot tapeworm from your inside?
arachnophilia
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Message 16 of 47 (269094)
12-14-2005 12:24 AM
Reply to: Message 6 by RAZD
12-13-2005 6:50 PM


Re: the cookie method
completely ignoring the fact IIRC that tapeworms are segmented worms that can regrow from any segment, and their natural defense is to break.
oh, ruin a joke would you.

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Message 17 of 47 (269098)
12-14-2005 12:33 AM
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12-13-2005 9:19 PM


some stuff i found suggests that a hydrogen peroxide enema will do the trick. i'm doubtful that's a good idea since that stuff tends to eat ALL kinds of protein. yeah. ew.
i'd stick with serious drugs.

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Message 18 of 47 (269102)
12-14-2005 1:20 AM


Curries and other medications
I knocked around with a couple of Malaysian tin miners and they said that 30 footers were not that rare. One women was convinced she was pregnant up until the seventh month when a change of doctors broke the bad news. Or maybe the miners liked pulling an Aussie`s leg.
Seeing as they ate the hottest curries I have ever experienced for nil effect on tapeworms, I can definately recommend NOT going that way.

  
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Message 19 of 47 (269117)
12-14-2005 2:41 AM
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12-14-2005 12:24 AM


Segments
The segments (IIRC) break off and contain eggs. These are excreted to be picked up by herbivores.
They can't, I don't think, regenerate. I'm pretty sure it is simply a matter of taking the correct pill. But then I've only treated the kids pinworms. Not on the same scale.

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Message 20 of 47 (269220)
12-14-2005 11:55 AM
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12-14-2005 2:41 AM


Re: Segments
So, you guys are telling me that there are pills for a person to take and a long-ass 30-foot long creature will crawl out of his arse?

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Message 21 of 47 (269234)
12-14-2005 12:24 PM
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12-14-2005 12:33 AM


my personal endorsement
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i'd stick with serious drugs.
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Message 22 of 47 (269264)
12-14-2005 2:04 PM
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12-14-2005 11:55 AM


long but skinny
It'll be dead before it let's go.
They are long but they are very, thin. I'm not sure you'd notice them leaving. They seem to be a few mm wide and very thin.

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Message 23 of 47 (269278)
12-14-2005 2:49 PM
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12-14-2005 11:55 AM


Re: Segments
no. you take pills and it dies and then you crap it out.
that's what happened to my cats.

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EZscience
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Message 24 of 47 (269279)
12-14-2005 2:51 PM
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12-14-2005 11:55 AM


Re: Segments
Actually, I have treated dogs and cats for tapeworms several times.
If the medication for humans is similar, the worm sort of dissolves and you never notice anything in feces.

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Message 25 of 47 (269288)
12-14-2005 3:23 PM
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12-14-2005 2:49 PM


Re: Segments
You took pills and they died and then you crapped them out? We wondered what happened to your cats. Sorry to hear that but I hope you're all betterer now.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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Message 26 of 47 (269291)
12-14-2005 3:31 PM
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12-14-2005 3:23 PM


Re: Segments
ew.

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Message 27 of 47 (269292)
12-14-2005 3:31 PM
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12-14-2005 2:51 PM


Re: Segments
that works too.

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Message 28 of 47 (269317)
12-14-2005 5:03 PM


Don't read if you're eating!!!!!
You take a drug that kills the tapeworm. You have to kill it inside the body because the tapeworm's head or scolex uses multiple hooks to attach to the wall of the small intestine. Once it's dead, the head comes away and the whole worm is passed out of the body.
With live tapeworms, the segments containing eggs break off and you can get chains of quite a few segments which still squirm around, even though they're not attached to the head anymore. The biggest I've seen was about 2 feet and even without the head I went into the walk in incubator with a whip and a chair.
Once a patient has been treated every single poo is examined by some poor sod in a lab until the head is found. Bearingin mind that the head is small and the poo is big, this is one of the most odious and odoriferous jobs I've ever had to do. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. If the drug treatment hasn't been effective and the head alone is alive and still inside, it will regenerate. The segments themselves won't regenerate.
Recently on TV, a chap made a documentary about growing his own tapeworm and we got to follow the process from ingestion to it's final demise. He named it Rory, caught it in a seive, laid it out in his garden and measured it - it was about 25 foot long IIRC. He would have kept it longer, but he was getting married and his bride to be didn't want to share her honeymoon bed with Rory.

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Message 29 of 47 (269328)
12-14-2005 5:30 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by coffee_addict
12-13-2005 5:56 PM


There are definite formulas
A 30 foot tapeworm? Dang, Lam...whoever has that is eating wrongly! Intestinal parasites are somewhat common in the third world and less so here, although they do happen.
Google a product known as RASCAL. That product has the ingredients
that it will take to rid that thing.

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Message 30 of 47 (269399)
12-14-2005 7:59 PM
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12-14-2005 5:30 PM


Re: There are definite formulas
It is extremely common where I grew up. In Vietnam, though, there was a type of plant that people ate to help with intestinal parasites. Whether or not it worked I really don't know. However, I'm just really glad that I lived half my life there without getting a long-ass worm inside my body.

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