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Iridescent, Curvy Parasites Pollute This Woman Who Wants Proper Medical Attention

“I am polluted with this parasite,” starts this reader in her submission to us. What she describes as an “iridescent, curvy, wiggly worm” has been causing her trouble for a year and a half, and she writes to us to find out what it is she can do about her situation.

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Woman Asks for Help with Potential Parasites Which She Captures in Amazing Detail

“Is this a parasite?” asks this reader about the cottony, white substances pictured below. Our reader, who is based in Modesto, California thinks this substance looks like an “aspicu”, which we assume refers to the aspiculurus tetraptera, which is a type of pinworm.

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Man Seeks Help for Potentially Parasitic Worms After People Online Tell Him They are Horsehair Worms

“I’m scared to death,” states this reader, who writes to us in a call for help. After consulting people online, he has been told that he has “horsehair nematomorpha”, even though doctors have told him that it is impossible.

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Yellow and Red Marks on This Woman’s Scalp Cause Itchiness: Where She Can Seek Medical Advice

“What is it?” asks our reader about her “findings” on her “scalp” that have been bothering her for five weeks. She discovered the yellow and red markings on her scalp with her comb, and they were “itchy at first”, though she does not elaborate upon the extent to which they are affecting her now.

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Skin and Hair Parasites Bother Woman for Three Years; Where She Can Go for Help

“I’ve been battling this skin and hair parasite for three years now and no one knows anything,” states this reader in her query to us. “What is it?” she asks, concerning the crusty, dark-red substance on her fingernail below.

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Man Faces Infestation of Organisms for Years and Seeks Help

A man in Sanford, Maine reaches out to us in need of help as he has been dealing with organisms that his body has ‘extruded’ for years. These organisms include the matter in the photos below, as well as “hairlike worms coming out of [his] knuckles” and eggs coming out of his mouth.

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Pinkish Matter Found on Scalp Forces this Woman To Seek Out Answers

“What is in my scalp?” asks this reader about the pinkish matter photographed below. She also sends in pictures of what we assume to be her hair, as well as of a green, leaf-like object.

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Man Plagued with Organisms for Two Years; Where he Can Go for Help

“Can you identify these please?” asks this reader in Olean, New York who has been plagued by these organisms for almost two years. His dermatologist says he is better off getting help from an exterminator to diagnose his skin ailment.

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How to Find a Doctor to Test and Treat You When You Have Worms or Parasites in Your Body

“I was wondering if you know of any doctor in my area for me to go get tested for these parasites” asks this reader from Wichita, Kansas. He wonders “who would really help [him], unlike the rest of the doctors who just automatically dismiss [him] even though [he] could actually have a parasitic infection”.

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This Woman Wonders Where She, Her Dog and her Family Can Receive Medical Attention for Potential Hookworms

“Where can I get help?” is the first thing this woman writes in her submission, posing the question that many face when they are concerned about parasite-related health concerns. This reader in particular is concerned about a “hookworm” that “came out of [her] dog” which has spread to her and her family members.

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Man Worries the Spots on His Body May Be Caused by Something Under His Skin

“Can it get on or in a man’s blood and skin? Because I have […] different spots on my body.” asks this man in his one-line query. No photos or more context accompany his question, but we will do our best to help our reader with his issue.

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Man Suspects He has Hookworms Under his Skin and Wants to Know Where He Can Go for Help

“These worms are under my skin” writes this reader in his submission to us about the hair-like worms in the photo below. Our reader believes them to be hookworms and asks for any feedback we can provide as to what the organisms are.

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Mysterious Purple Matter Photographed by Woman Seeking Help

“Can you help me?” is all this woman asks of us before loading her submission with a plethora of photographs of her hair, red-marked limbs and an unidentified, purple matter that looks like it has been photographed through a microscope.

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Hair Worms Apparently Feeding On Man Justify a Visit to an Infectious Disease Physician

“Need help” begins our reader in her query to us about her husband, who has “something like hair worms that host his hairs and use his skin to reach out and feed off him.” In what sounds like a dire situation, our reader reaches out to us for any assistance that we can provide.

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“What parasite is this?” Asks Man About Irregularly-shaped Blue Worm

“What parasite is this?” is the only thing this reader writes to us in conjunction with this photograph of a blue worm-like creature. What resembles a shriveled leaf lies stretched out over a wooden surface, its body seeming to move from tubular to flat as one scans its body from top to toe.

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Woman Battling Morgellons Disease and a Number of Parasites Checks in for an Update

In a follow up to a previous article we wrote on a woman facing infections of various parasites, the same woman writes to us again to update us on her condition and diagnosis. Along with her update, she proves several more images that she hopes “can help someone.”

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A Brief Overview of the Ways in Which Worms Affect Humans

“Do they affect humans in any way?” asks this reader about a mystery worm or creature that is left unnamed. “Will they crawl into your mouth or ears?”

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Man Suffers “Buzzing Legs” Among Other Symptoms of a Parasitic Infection

“I have had buzzing legs since 2014 or before,” writes this reader from in his query to us. He reports dealing with a number of symptoms, as well as worms and “items” that come out of his excrement, and he would like to know exactly what it is he is dealing with.

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Man and Woman Deal with Hooked Worms Coming From Nose and Sores

“This one worm with the hook on it came out of his nose, the other one that had 2 in it came out of a sore in my leg,” this reader writes to us. She wonders if we can tell her what these worms are.

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Married Couple Battle Doctors and the Internet in the Hope That Their Parasitic Infections are Taken Seriously

“My husband and I have been battling parasites and doctors for two years now,” says this reader, who reaches out to us in a desperate time in which her health is declining and she is not getting the help she needs. Our reader and her husband have been diagnosed with strongyloidiasis, Morgellons and some type of filarial infection, among other things.