How to Kill a Parasitic Worm Living Inside of You

IO9 ^ | Jun 27, 2012 | Keith Veronese

[chris37]

Hmmm...

[peggybac]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[count-your-change]

Wormwood was a traditional cure.

[Noob1999]

............The best way to rid the body of these is to put the patient on their stomach, if necessary prop open the mouth, after placing about a 1/2 pound of raw hamburger 4 inches from the patient’s mouth. When the worm starts to exit the mouth for the bait, grab it as quick as possible. Be careful not to get bit.

THANKS! NOW THAT’S JUST DISGUSTING!

[DogByte6RER]

ping

[Kickass Conservative]

It’s only disgusting if you hang the Patient upside down with a mirror on the floor below him.

[JRandomFreeper]

K.

I'm not sleeping tonight. May as well get up and roast coffee.

That's not vaguely disturbing... that's disturbing. Deep in the bowels disturbing. Oh hell.

I hope you are happy.

I'll be much more careful on the threads I click on.

/johnny

[johnthebaptistmoore]

All of the serious conservative candidates are members of the Republican Party, until this is no longer the case.

[Praxeologue]

Prevention for tapeworms: become a vegetarian.

[21twelve]

I got hookworm on our honeymoon in Barbados - in one of my feet! Symptoms started with an itchy foot. Upon closer inspection the “rash” was all squiggly lines. As I told my wife - this rash looks like a bunch of worm-trails. Still thinking it was just a rash, but not getting any better, I went to the doc.

Luckily he had been a medic in Vietnam.

“Wow - that’s hookworm. I haven’t seen that since Vietnam! Barbados you say? That makes sense - poor sanitation and then a dog poops on the beach and you come walking by... Hey - do you mind if I show the rest of the docs and staff your foot? They’ve never seen hookworm before, and I doubt they ever will again. This is so cool!” (About 8 people from his small place stopped by to look!)

He gave me medication to apply to my foot twice a day. After a week it was better but not gone, so he phoned in a refill. I went to the pharmacy and got the bottle, and looked at the instructions and it said “Take 1 tablespoon twice a day.” I told the lady that must be wrong, as I wasn’t drinking it, but putting it on my feet. She got all snippy at me and told me “maybe that’s why it wasn’t working so now you need to drink it”.

I got home, opened it up and looked at it in the tablespoon - the same stuff I had been putting on my foot!! No way. I called the doc the next day to make sure I was suppose to drink it. “Yes - it is the same medicine you drink if the hookworm is in your intestine - but why would you think to drink it?”

I went to the pharmacy and asked to talk to the pharmacist. He sheepishly told me “Well it had said apply 2x - but I had never heard of that so I changed it to the normal does of drinking a tablespoon.

I was pretty irate, asked him if he was always changing doctors’ prescriptions, and changed pharmacies.

The hookworm did leave though.

[Semper Mark]

Pinworms sneak out of your anus at night Tiny pinworms lay eggs around a host's anus, leading to an itching sensation, which creates a vicious cycle if your fingers come in contact with your mouth

When you have pinworms you scratch your anus and touch your mouth.

Don't scratch your anus and touch your mouth:

[Salamander]

You need to make sure people know to buy _food grade_ DE.

:)

[no sneaking off to the home garden center]

DE also kills fleas in an excruciating, exquisitely painful way...it cuts them to shreds.

[skeama]

"A number of pharmaceutical treatments are available to rid humans of unwelcome worm guests."

"These drugs are called anthelmintics."

I'll be voting Anthelmintics down the ticket this November.

[Slings and Arrows]

o/~ There's a new sound... o/~

[dixiechick2000]

Oooof!

Sounds like my tummy after eating Mexican food.

Not pretty! lol

[Slings and Arrows]

Darksheare’s fault.

[Really. He introduced me to that song.]

[chuckles]

DE also kills roaches and other insects that crawl over it. Works on ant beds also. Sprinkle around doors, windows, baseboards, or any other possible entrance to the home and they will die.

[Salamander]

Yep.

Non-toxic, too.

You can even dust your dogs with it to kill fleas if you’re careful to not let them or yourself breathe the dust.

Diatoms; nature’s little bug assassins.

:)

[chuckles]

You can't drink gasoline and avoid other more deadly chemicals. Benzine and Dioxins are just a couple of side effects in petrol. Sorta like drinking methanol to get drunk. I suppose you could do it, but you won't survive the hangover.

I suppose it's possible to kill the worms, but then end up with cancer or aplastic anemia.

I wouldn't try it if I were you. Course under Obama Care, that might be the first choice they try as long as gas is under $4 a gallon.

[piasa]

Prevention for tapeworms: become a vegetarian.

How do you think the cows got 'em?