Posted on 06/30/2012 10:01:39 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
You’ve got to be kidding... serious?
I remember reading a story about a pig farmer who had 7 children and giving his children pig wormer. He got the dose of the youngest child off and she got little sick and HHS took the kids. I thought how disgusting, Then I found out the ingredient was the same in human wormer but the pharmacy charges $25 and pig wormer is about $0.25. I was still disgusted.
My Mother (who will turn 85 this year) told me a story about a little girl she knew as she was growing up who was becoming extremely weak and malnourished, and the doctor in town told her parents that she had a tapeworm.
Told them to give her nothing but water to keep her hydrated for three days, then he made a house call, and directed the parents to literally tie her firmly to a tree out in their back yard, and he proceeded to wave a saucer of milk under the girl’s chin, near to her mouth. The tapeworm came UP from the child’s intestines and stomach, leaping out of her mouth, wild to get to the milk, and the doctor (with the parents assisting) grabbed the tapeworm and pulled it all the way out, it measured almost 10 feet.
The girl recovered, none the worse for wear.
Decades later, that story still gives me the heebie-jeebies.
How do you think the cows got ‘em?’ Cows get them from eating grass, since they don’t eat meat...
I thought she was just going to have me go fetch eggs from the hen house or something. Had no idea THAT job was coming. And she was right, the worm did come out for air and the second time it poked out I caught it and pulled it out. Couldn't sleep for well for weeks thinking about brain worms!
Yep. By being vegetarians.
I don’t suppose you want me to tell you the story of the time I found one of our angora kids in the pasture with a 6 inch tape worm hanging out of its butt...Missed the wormer that kills tapeworms...some wormers take care of bloodworms, some tapeworms etc...Use a different wormer every 3 months and in a years time you have hit all the worms...then you start all over again. :O) GG
I read this joke on FR many years ago - can’t remember who posted it, so hat tip to whomsoever.....
(I’ll try to keep it as PG-13 as possible)
Guy goes into doctor’s office, says he wants a cure for his tapeworm. Doc tells him to get a dozen hard-boiled eggs, eleven lemon-flavored cookies and a hammer.
Doc tells him to once a day insert the egg into his butt, followed by the lemon cookie.
On the twelfth day, just insert the egg, and when the tapeworm comes out and says “Where’s my g-d cookie?” you hit it with the hammer.
You get a prescription for pin worms from the doctor and everyone in the family has to take it...Happened every October until my last kid got out of elementary school...They can pick up the microscoptic eggs from toys, book etc in school....
I could have done without that enthralling story. Sleep is penciled in for Tuesday. Since I'm already doing penance for something.. I'll take it.
WTH do you do when you have a goat with 6 inches of tapeworm partialy defecated?
Besides pass out or launch and nuke from orbit?
/johnny
I wonder how you can tell that a parasitic worm is living inside you.
I had to walk the whole pasture with a shovel and bucket to find and piles of tape worms laying in grass....sometimes the whole worm comes out, but hey they are called tapeworms cause they looks like white scotch tape and about the same width...I hope you don’t remember that each time you use scotch tape......I am sorry for being a bad girl....:O)
I GOTTA be more careful on the threads I click on.
/johnny
My mind briefly went there in science mode and came screaming back that "YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW!", and fell quivering in my arms.
So I'm not asking again.
Damn sure don't ask Goat Granny.
/johnny
Having worked for several years in the pharmacy of a large state run hospital I can appreciate your story more than most.
Thats why they make Preparation H taste bad—so you won’t lick your fingers.
Damn it gave me the heebie-jeebies now.
Yeah, but then you get nematodes. :^)
We have scorpions here on our hill.
The DE is sprinkled near all doorways. Any stinging scorpions that do get inside have all been very sickly, not very spry or acting like they are able to move at all. Highly recommend it. Downside is you have a powdery substance around your doorways that gets on your shoes and tracks in the house. Still better than chemicals.
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