“How does someone get rid of this clear worm? If they have gone to the hospital and got Baker Acted?” asks this reader in her query. Though she provides no photographs or more context than this, we will do our best to guide our reader toward the help the person in need requires.

Firstly, we must point out that since this situation is explicitly medical in nature, we will not be able to provide any medical advice. This is because we are not medical professionals and are thus not qualified to provide any such information; doing so may prove more harmful than helpful.

Secondly, we think it helpful to point out to the rest of our readers what this person means by the phrase “Baker Acted”. According to the University of Florida’s web page about the Baker Act, this act “is a Florida law that enables families and loved ones to provide emergency mental health services and temporary detention for people who are impaired because of their mental illness, and who are unable to determine their needs for treatment.”

Now, we cannot advise our reader on how to handle a situation like this, in which the Baker Act has come into place; just as we are not qualified to give medical advice, we are not qualified to give legal advice. What we can do is provide some resources by which one can find help for potential parasitic, fungal or bacterial infections. That is not to say that this is what this person is experiencing, but as our reader’s query ties “this clear worm” to someone being hospitalized, we think it would be most beneficial to consult a medical parasitologist.

What we can recommend is that our reader do one or more of the following:

1) Search for a medical parasitologist in Florida using this directory of medical parasitology consultants: https://www.astmh.org/for-astmh-members/clinical-consultants-directory.
2) Search for a local parasitologist by doing a Google search for “medical parasitologist (name of the closest big city in Florida)” or “tropical medicine specialist (name of the closest big city in Florida)”.
3) Get in touch with Dr. Omar Amin at the Parasitology Center at https://www.parasitetesting.com.

In conclusion, we cannot tell our reader exactly how to get rid of whatever “clear worm” she is referring to. Neither can we give advice on how to deal with a situation where someone has been “Baker Acted”. All we can do is suggest some resources where our reader can consult with a professional who would be able to deal with a medical situation involving worms, and we hope that these resources are helpful and that whoever it is that is in need of them gets better soon.

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