Got worms?

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         You most likely have seen this meme from the House, M.D. series. It's never lupus. In a similar fashion, my department has a thing for Strongyloides. Often, when the floor suspects a patient of having some sort of parasite, we hop on the meme wagon. Of course, sometimes the patient does have it. I can only remember a handful of times I've encountered this parasite in my career.

What is it?

         In short, you got worms, Strongyloides stercoralis to be exact. What might surprise you is that this "parasite" can also be free-living. This means that they don't have to have a host to live out their lives. And some of you thought wasps are jerks.

         How do you get it? They live in the soil and they are more than capable of burrowing inside your skin and into your body. So, think about that next time you go about bare feet acting as if you are so one with nature.

         The funny thing is, many people wouldn't even know they have it because they are asymptomatic. So then, you might ask, why would anyone care?

         Remember how I said they can burrow into you? Yeah, they can literally go anywhere in your body, but they prefer to stay in your intestines. They may move up to your lungs every now and then so you wind up coughing them up. Oh, it's also possible to autoinfect yourself with them in a never-ending cycle. That's how annoying they are.

         As for how bad it would affect you, here are some resources to answer that question:

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/strongyloides/gen_info/faqs.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongyloidiasis

         The short version is: it depends on where they go. The issues can range from nuisance to fatal.

         The good news is, it's quite treatable. If you love your deworming Ivermectin, this is where it shines. Although it is still a long, drawn out, process. The best preventive measures are to have good hygiene and don't dwell in dirty places.

         In the images above you can see them in the scope. This is from a patient's stool sample. You could see the worms moving. The medical director had them placed in a chocolate agar to capture the "tunnels" they burrow. Since they carry the patient's gut flora, bacteria would grow where the worms traveled.

         To demonstrate it further, here's a gif of that action.


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         The squirming you see are the worms moving.

         As for the patient, I would assume he is not doing so great if he's in the hospital. Whether it's due to the worms, is another story. That's information I did not bother to look up.

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It's never lupus

It's never sarcoidosis either, until it is, like with me. One Doctor told me, they used to have a drinking game in med school where they would have a shot every time they heard sarcoidosis or lupus on the TV show House.

As for the worms, well hell. That's just not what I wanted to see after drinking my coffee this early in the morning and not sleeping well.

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These aren't that bad in terms of images.

It could be much worse.

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So, think about that next time you go about bare feet acting as if you are so one with nature.

What if some hippie wanted to be one with nature so much that they burrowed their dong on the ground and it got itchy. Then had M2M action and that explains the worm on the stool because from your point of view, you're only seeing the partner that was unaware where their partner's dong came from.

I should be a screen writer for a mystery TV show.

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If someone had these worm AND pin worms, which are not uncommon, would they co exist or fight ? If so, who would win the fight?

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That's a very good question, but I am under the impression that the pinworms tend to hang out near the anus where as these guys can go anywhere.

In fact, they don't even need you, but they can get inside you.

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I never understood the meme "it's never lupus" . I mean lupus patients are not rare so it's kind of a random joke or maybe I'm square for not getting it :P Cool pictures and gifs btw :)

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It's a meme that spawned from the series. I guess they kept on suspecting that, but it wasn't most of the times.

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oh I see, it's a show thing. I always tried to understand it from a scientific view point, I guess I'm silly sometimes :)))

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I didn't know about it as well

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Until I ended up getting bone spurs, there's a name for it but I forgot what it is, I barely wore shoes, I loved being barefoot. People buy me gloves as a gift for my birthdate because I love to garden and they think it's something I'd really enjoy having, a new pair of garden gloves. Fact of the matter is they just lay around here forever until I find some sort of use for them besides gardening. The thousands of hours I've spent gardening over my life if worms were a problem in the soil I'd be a walking talking worm by now...lol. There's just something about the feel of the soil, it make me feel like I am connecting with the plant and seeds I sow preparing the best possible bed for them to grow in, I can't feel that wearing gloves.

Wonder if that guy got vaccinated, or covid, was watching the outerlights video last night and there were doctors showing photos of the vaccines under microscope and autopsy of those who died after getting the vaccine, worm like was a word that came into play. I think I heard the word parasite also.

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Whether or not the patient was vaccinated or had Covid is not relevant or within the scope of this post.

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I wasn't expecting you to give out someone's personal medical information regarding the vaccine, covid, as much as giving you a heads up if it starts to become a trend, not that you'd speak out about which seems to be the problem within the medical community, to many in fear of speaking out. I can't blame them really in a way, I am living proof of what can happen to people who think they have a right to go against the status quo and learned the hard way there's really no such thing as having a right to speak up against being wronged.

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What hell are you on about?

Do you really think it makes sense from a money perspective?

It's infinitely more lucrative for healthcare systems to continue cancer treatments, elective surgeries, and other chronic ailments etc. than to settle for whatever bullshit compensations people say about making the big bucks off of covid.

Only Pfizer, Moderna, etc benefit from that.

Maybe the next time you ride with the waves , try checking the inconsistencies between your beliefs.

And when I say it’s not within the scope of the post, I mean it. Quit being like same mofos that have to bring up gender and race in every god damned discussion.

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Look dude you started it by bringing up the guys issues with worms so talking about the guy "medically" about worms is, in my opinion, way worse than talking about if he "possibly" got the vaccine, then you lead into he was admitted into the hospital but you don't know why.....so since you brought it up nobodies allowed to speculate on it? At that point it's wide open from there in my opinion. If I had said something about reading an article that said there was a recent outbreak of worms caused by eating lettuce you'd found a quick comeback for it but no you have go getting ultra sensitive because I brought up the issue of the vaccine after having viewed a video that mentioned possible parasites associated with the vaccine.

I am not for lockdowns and yes medical facilities should continue along with all businesses to operate, but that has nothing to do the intent of the article either, what's making people ill/dying from the vaccines should be the focus of the medical community therefore they are needed more than ever.

You are dead wrong that just the pharmaceutical companies are making money off the vaccines, for every shot given they get reimbursed over a hundred bucks a shot, that's an administrative fee anyone giving the shots gets from the insurer, medicaid/medicare, or a reimbursement program set up by the government from the stimulus package. When hospitals this last summer where giving shots in auditoriums they sat up and used they were raking in over 35,000 a day in the larger cities were the demand was high. They also get reimbursed at the same rate medicaid/medicare pays out for ICU plus 20 percent added to cover PPE, that's just medicaid/medicare, they are allowed to bill insurers which pays way more. Insurers are now being allowed to charge co pays for those medical stays, this wasn't allowed in the beginning. Remember empty ICU beds make them no money....it's not the bulk of their hospital operations but it all adds to their bottom lines. I am not saying there is nefarious dealings financially going on with them all, I went to the doctor for a well exam (that's what they call it, a yearly health exam), they didn't even mention if I had been vaccinated....that shows you they are wising up, maybe they won't stand up against it, and like I said who could blame them, but they don't have to push it either.

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Look dude, you started by going off tangent about something that has nothing to do with having Strongyloides.

I merely said not sure if he's in the hospital for this because this specific parasite don't usually cause severe problems.

GO AWAY.

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It's dude-ette. Don't know why you got all ultra sensitive but really guy there's a lot of people getting sick or injured, that may not have been your experience but for many it has. In the meeting to expand boosters last week many doctors showed up and told them we are killing two people to try and save 1 using these vaccines, that's why they got denied to give these boosters to everyone. I can link you up to it if you want but regardless of how you perceive the issue the fact is they are going to try and give these to our kids, you'd think you'd just come back with a punt on my comment and kept what I said to you in the back of your mind in case mysterious things start happening, sometimes it what's on the low down that we end up making vital decisions on, we don't have to tell the world everything but passing information is sometimes vital to getting to the truth. Meaning we don't have to share it, believe it but keeping it in the back of our minds give us some credence to go on if we find ourselves all of a sudden questioning something. I definitely wasn't out to offend you.

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....and how those with money can destroy you.

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All for science even though this is disgusting! Couldnt do your job lol

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yeah my thought is the same

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This may be your best post and your worst post :)) Great reading but I'm getting ready for sleep. Will try not to have that image in my head.

Really, a great post.

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if I could see all the organisms that living on my body I would feel disgusted but you have shown me some in this post

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Such is life.

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yeah, such is life some beneficial bacteria are living on use as well no?

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