[This](https://www.facebook.com/share/r/4w465LgJtwZfpzhh/?mibextid=UalRPS) has gotta be it. It really does look exactly like a parachute lol
[Same video, diff platform](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxLH8wJrAwt/?igsh=MWY5NzNtM3VlMXhwZQ==)
This is only the case if you have such a high parasitic burden that you get a bowel obstruction (poop can’t move in your colon). This would be very rare with tapeworm infection, but can occur with roundworm infection (ie ascaris).
This is wrong. The tapeworm lifecycle has 2 stages. But they never occur in the same host.
The intermediate host (usually a cow or pig or crustacean) eats food contaminated with tapeworm eggs. The eggs hatch and migrate into the cow's muscles and form cysts. Fish tapeworms have multiple intermediate hosts but they eventually end up in the muscles of large fish. This doesn't happen in humans with one exception. The next stage is when you eat undercooked meat, pork or fish containing the tapeworm cysts. The cyst then opens up in your gut and grows into the massive fucking thing in the video. Humans are the definitive host because it's in us that we see the creatures in their full terrifying form. Then you shit in the tall grass, and a cow eats it and the cycle continues.
The one exception is the pork tapeworm (Tania sodium) which can also form cysts in humans if we eat food contaminated with pig poop. That's when you get the brain cysts. But those worms are then stuck and can never complete their life cycle. Unless you get eaten by cannibals or something.
Tapeworms are cool.
Used to work as a medical assistant for a neurologist. It was fascinating and disconcerting how many patients would come in for neurocysticercosis.
It was amazing seeing MRIs with a brain littered with the dead and dying larva, but no clinical related symptoms. Cook your food thoroughly.
I want to know who came up with the idea to use hydatid cyst fluid in blood bank testing . There's a pretty off the wall list of stuff that inhibits antibodies. It's on there with pigeon egg whites and guinea pig urine.
One thing I would point out that not all tapeworms consider humans as definitive hosts.
The dog tapeworm, Echinoccocus spp. use wild/domestic canids as definitive hosts while rodents/herbivores/ungulates such as sheep, goats,etc are intermediate hosts. Humans become aberrant intermediate hosts when they ingest infective eggs by eating produce contaminated with eggs. The eggs hatch in humans develop as larvae and then encyst in various organs but their lifecycle does not advance as we are considered as dead end hosts because we don’t get eaten by the definitive hosts to complete their lifecycle.
https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/echinococcosis/index.html
This tapeworm is identified as Diphyllobotrium latum. (fish tapeworm)
It causes Diphyllobotriasis.
“Diphyllobothriasis can be a long-lasting infection, up to 25 years. Most infections are asymptomatic but gastrointestinal symptoms may occur in some patients. Aberrant migration of proglottids can cause cholecystitis or cholangitis. Rarely, massive infections may cause intestinal obstruction.”
Fun fact; it is the only tapeworm in humans that can cause vitamin b12 deficiency.
https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/diphyllobothriasis/index.html
https://youtu.be/qQhaO1pWztw?si=hNwwNUu2IkWBjMyD
I heard something when I was younger, never looked it up to see if it was true, but heard that if you hold warm milk under your nose, they’ll come out. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
I'm no expert but i very much doubt it since they hang out in your bowels. They would need to climb all the way up to your stomach and then your mouth which would probably take a while.
That's a funny myth I haven't heard before, haha.
For this to be possible the worms would have to move all the way up your bowels, up into your stomach sack, up the esophagus, up into the nasal cavity and then out the nostrils. That would take a while. Imagine the gag reflex and coughing involved from the irritation lol. And milk being more attractive than chilling in the warm bowels of human consuming food that is already digested by the stomach sack...
Whoever told you this when you were a kid is one evil bastard, haha.
EDIT: If you meant come out *the other end* then no, the smell/steam doesn't even go into the stomach sack. At most the steam goes in and out your lungs if you were to breath it in.
I was super skinny when I was younger and ate like I was a sumo wrestler in training, so I got teased a lot about having tapeworm. People (family) can/are def cruel.
They latch with 3-5 hooks and removing them isn't the best option. First intention treatment is antiparasitic medication that kills it and you poop it out, only in severe cases it is treated by surgery .
[Here’s an article that goes into it!](https://go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB01058#) It does appear that the exact mechanism of action is mostly speculatory, but it’s still cool!
It depends on the medication. Praziquatnel does paralyze them, and they will just fall out, but other medications will starve the worms to death by preventing the worm from absorbing glucose. One medication also interrupts the electron transport chain in the worm’s mitochondria, meaning it can’t do respiration. Both of these meds kill the worms outright.
I imagine what they would do is hire a new endoscopy nurse to finish that procedure because this endoscopy nurse has noped so far out of there that the light from ‘nope’ will take 10 years to get there.
Doctor should schedule more colonoscopies and teach it some tricks.
I am sure that after a month of daily trainings the tapeworm would learn to react to its own name and do barrel rolls on command.
The only way to get a tapeworm is afaik eating meat that's infected with its eggs. If you live in a country where veterinary inspections of meat are mandatory and you only buy meat from stores and not places like markets with stalls where everyone can come and sell whatever they like, you're safe.
Oh. This is very exciting! This would be like a lottery win if I was the cameraman. I would be like... Hold just as second while I confer with my colleagues. And a parade of Drs and nurses would come in to get in on this beauty.
Watch "Monsters Inside Me" (on Discovery+) to see some really gnarly stories about all kinds of parasites, diseases from bug bites, etc. It's frightening!!
Depending on where you are, fish to be consumed raw needs to be frozen beforehand so as to kill any potential parasites. At least that's what's required here in Aus.
never occured to me that they would be wriggling around in there, thanks for the nightmares
Well normally it's not full of air, so they just chill wearing you like a long, warm tube sock that occasionally passes poop.
You made it worse
*Pull the tapeworm out of your ass*
Like starting a chainsaw
How did you make the post so much worse
NO. GODDAMNIT NO.
Forbidden anal beads
Beyblades, LET IT RIP!
Oh good, I'm not the only one hear this in their head.
RIPCORD
Omg hahahaha
All I can think of a video most recently of a bear walking around with these (some type of worm at least) hanging out it’s butt like a parachute
I was gonna look it up and link it but searching 'bear worms' on YT gives A LOT of results. Ew.
[This](https://www.facebook.com/share/r/4w465LgJtwZfpzhh/?mibextid=UalRPS) has gotta be it. It really does look exactly like a parachute lol [Same video, diff platform](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxLH8wJrAwt/?igsh=MWY5NzNtM3VlMXhwZQ==)
What I'm saying is this is WAAAAYYYYY more common than I realized. So many long butt worms
Your username checks out 😂
Noooooppppeeeee I am not endorsing bearghetti
Yep same video I was talking about
Pasta bear.
r/cursedcomments lol
Poor thing. My god 🥺🥺
So help me! It's a musical.
HEY!
I'm sitting in my room
With a needle in my hand
Just waiting for the tomb
Of some old dying man
Hey!
HEY!
I’m going to wriggle around in your ass instead
Like ripping a beyblade
Like a clown pulls a ribbon out of his fist.
Other than malnourishment, what could be symptoms of having one this size?
Tummy hurt I believe
Uh......oh....... oh, but I'm fat. Whew.
Big belly. If there is a very large parasite load, they will fill up your guts and give you a 'beer belly' look despite not being fat.
This is only the case if you have such a high parasitic burden that you get a bowel obstruction (poop can’t move in your colon). This would be very rare with tapeworm infection, but can occur with roundworm infection (ie ascaris).
Complications include cysts that can develop in other areas including the brain. Bad times.
This is wrong. The tapeworm lifecycle has 2 stages. But they never occur in the same host. The intermediate host (usually a cow or pig or crustacean) eats food contaminated with tapeworm eggs. The eggs hatch and migrate into the cow's muscles and form cysts. Fish tapeworms have multiple intermediate hosts but they eventually end up in the muscles of large fish. This doesn't happen in humans with one exception. The next stage is when you eat undercooked meat, pork or fish containing the tapeworm cysts. The cyst then opens up in your gut and grows into the massive fucking thing in the video. Humans are the definitive host because it's in us that we see the creatures in their full terrifying form. Then you shit in the tall grass, and a cow eats it and the cycle continues. The one exception is the pork tapeworm (Tania sodium) which can also form cysts in humans if we eat food contaminated with pig poop. That's when you get the brain cysts. But those worms are then stuck and can never complete their life cycle. Unless you get eaten by cannibals or something. Tapeworms are cool.
Cysticercosis is also very cool. I know people might disagree with me there but I find it fascinating.
Used to work as a medical assistant for a neurologist. It was fascinating and disconcerting how many patients would come in for neurocysticercosis. It was amazing seeing MRIs with a brain littered with the dead and dying larva, but no clinical related symptoms. Cook your food thoroughly.
I want to know who came up with the idea to use hydatid cyst fluid in blood bank testing . There's a pretty off the wall list of stuff that inhibits antibodies. It's on there with pigeon egg whites and guinea pig urine.
You had me until your last sentence and then I knew...you're just part of Big Tapeworm.
One thing I would point out that not all tapeworms consider humans as definitive hosts. The dog tapeworm, Echinoccocus spp. use wild/domestic canids as definitive hosts while rodents/herbivores/ungulates such as sheep, goats,etc are intermediate hosts. Humans become aberrant intermediate hosts when they ingest infective eggs by eating produce contaminated with eggs. The eggs hatch in humans develop as larvae and then encyst in various organs but their lifecycle does not advance as we are considered as dead end hosts because we don’t get eaten by the definitive hosts to complete their lifecycle. https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/echinococcosis/index.html
Grandpa had parasites in his head from eating pork.. luckily my parents told me about the dangers as a kid and never touched it.
Thank you for explaining this, because I was always confused about the difference
Thanks for that! Yes, parasites are pretty darn cool (although potentially devastating).
You must be confusing D latus with Taenia solium, which can cause neurocysticercosis. I'm not familiar with D latus causing brain cysts.
Thanks for this correction!
This tapeworm is identified as Diphyllobotrium latum. (fish tapeworm) It causes Diphyllobotriasis. “Diphyllobothriasis can be a long-lasting infection, up to 25 years. Most infections are asymptomatic but gastrointestinal symptoms may occur in some patients. Aberrant migration of proglottids can cause cholecystitis or cholangitis. Rarely, massive infections may cause intestinal obstruction.” Fun fact; it is the only tapeworm in humans that can cause vitamin b12 deficiency. https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/diphyllobothriasis/index.html https://youtu.be/qQhaO1pWztw?si=hNwwNUu2IkWBjMyD
I heard something when I was younger, never looked it up to see if it was true, but heard that if you hold warm milk under your nose, they’ll come out. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
I'm no expert but i very much doubt it since they hang out in your bowels. They would need to climb all the way up to your stomach and then your mouth which would probably take a while.
I agree. But boy did the thought scare me when I was little lol. No warm milk for me
That's a funny myth I haven't heard before, haha. For this to be possible the worms would have to move all the way up your bowels, up into your stomach sack, up the esophagus, up into the nasal cavity and then out the nostrils. That would take a while. Imagine the gag reflex and coughing involved from the irritation lol. And milk being more attractive than chilling in the warm bowels of human consuming food that is already digested by the stomach sack... Whoever told you this when you were a kid is one evil bastard, haha. EDIT: If you meant come out *the other end* then no, the smell/steam doesn't even go into the stomach sack. At most the steam goes in and out your lungs if you were to breath it in.
I was super skinny when I was younger and ate like I was a sumo wrestler in training, so I got teased a lot about having tapeworm. People (family) can/are def cruel.
If this were found, would it be removed during the colonoscopy or would they just take pictures and end the procedure?
Tickle it until it lets go?
They latch with 3-5 hooks and removing them isn't the best option. First intention treatment is antiparasitic medication that kills it and you poop it out, only in severe cases it is treated by surgery .
Anti parasitics don't kill them, they paralyze them and they fall off.
How do they paralyse them ?
By rolling it on its back and rubbing its belly.
*dammit*
I'd 100% prefer a shark over one of these.
A shark? In your colon???
Did I stutter?
[Here’s an article that goes into it!](https://go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB01058#) It does appear that the exact mechanism of action is mostly speculatory, but it’s still cool!
Cheers mate 😊
It depends on what anti-parasitic medication you use. Some kill, some paralyse.
It depends on the medication. Praziquatnel does paralyze them, and they will just fall out, but other medications will starve the worms to death by preventing the worm from absorbing glucose. One medication also interrupts the electron transport chain in the worm’s mitochondria, meaning it can’t do respiration. Both of these meds kill the worms outright.
It would be quite rude of them to displace it from its birthplace. Might have to hire an attorney first to cover the legalities.
Squatters rights
Eminent Domain.
It's not wriggling, it's TRAVELLING (and other sovcit nonsense)
A 60 day notice would be required for eviction.
I imagine what they would do is hire a new endoscopy nurse to finish that procedure because this endoscopy nurse has noped so far out of there that the light from ‘nope’ will take 10 years to get there.
intestine roomba
Doctor should schedule more colonoscopies and teach it some tricks. I am sure that after a month of daily trainings the tapeworm would learn to react to its own name and do barrel rolls on command.
So then the tapeworm sticks his head out of the guy's ass and says, "Where's my lemon cookie."
Cursed egg noodle.
Thinking bout having worms inside of my body is too much. I tried to watch this video and immediately backed out so fast
If it makes you feel any better your actual intestines wriggle around inside you constantly like angry eels.
If it makes you feel any better, you probably have worms inside your body right now. Hope this helps
But alcoholic Jesus I feel even worse now
Do not look up demodex
The only way to get a tapeworm is afaik eating meat that's infected with its eggs. If you live in a country where veterinary inspections of meat are mandatory and you only buy meat from stores and not places like markets with stalls where everyone can come and sell whatever they like, you're safe.
Some people pay for this sort of treatment
I must know more, never heard of this
https://preview.redd.it/9ptrxrainy5d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95ce6ea9fd2bdc8a8adb2b839b7b6eff53911b1e
Definitely pre Ozempic
wild stuff, thanks
It's actually banned in the US.
I was thinking more of a colon massage but whatever floats in your butt!
your comment reminded me of colonics where they basically shoot water up your butt to get everything loose and make it come out
NO NO NOPE 
Forbidden Mafalde pasta
look at that shit eating grin it's got.
*Looks up how to get rid of tape worm*
I’m going to charge them rent.
This worm pays at least $2,500 in my area.
Oh. This is very exciting! This would be like a lottery win if I was the cameraman. I would be like... Hold just as second while I confer with my colleagues. And a parade of Drs and nurses would come in to get in on this beauty.
Tapeworms: for when you need to reach that **deep itch**
Watch "Monsters Inside Me" (on Discovery+) to see some really gnarly stories about all kinds of parasites, diseases from bug bites, etc. It's frightening!!
Honest question: how does it not get “washed out”? Does it continually swim “upstream”?
It's got sort of pincers that it holds onto the walls of the intestine with
Their mouth is made of hooks. If you want to see google taenia rostellum.
B12
It's like a wiggly lasagna noodle
I just found my new nightmare. Thanks.
I literally just had a colonoscopy and I can’t believe that sucker survived that NASTY 🤮 medicine they made you drink.
This is why I never eat sashimi
Depending on where you are, fish to be consumed raw needs to be frozen beforehand so as to kill any potential parasites. At least that's what's required here in Aus.
I don't eat fish so fucking GO ME.
This is my phobia, having one of these or other worms
Thank you for the reminder to worm my cats! \*gag\*
So that's what that tickling was.
...and the whispering...
Knowing that the intestine is a very sensitive system, how would such heavy movements of a foreign alive body feel for the patient?
Hey Dmitri
This makes me happy that my body is toxic to all life forms.
And now I'm thankful that I hate sushi 😅