“I found this in my home”, states this reader about the long, white worm-like organism pictured below. “I have been tortured lately by some unknown “thing” in my house. May it be bugs, worms, or something else; I found this when I woke up after a very rough night. I got a ton of bites on me. I’m not sure what’s going on but please give advice. Any is helpful. I know you can’t give medical advice but if you can try to identify the possible “worm” pictures that would be great. I was leaning towards a tapeworm possibly. Thank you for your time.”
Now, despite our reader stating that she understands that we cannot give medical advice, she still ends up asking for such advice; she states explicitly that the worms are biting her and that she thinks they may be tapeworms (which are parasites). To be clear, she is correct in saying we cannot provide medical advice, and the reason for this is that we are not medical professionals. As such, we are not qualified or legally able to provide any advice or identifications when it comes to organisms affecting human or animal health, as doing so could be construed as medical advice.
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What we can say is that, since these worms seem to be roaming her home, we recommend that she vacuums her home thoroughly, as she may successfully vacuum up any worms, especially the younger ones that will be harder to spot, and any eggs they may have laid. Likewise, in the case that these worms came up from her drains, she may want to clean her drains properly.
What we can do is point our reader in the direction of medical professionals who will be able to help her. Specifically, we recommend consulting a medical parasitologist, since she is worried about tapeworms. Medical parasitologists are physicians which specialize in diagnosing and treating parasites, as well as other organisms that negatively affect human health. To find one, our reader can do one or more of the following:
1) Search for a medical parasitologist in her area 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)” or “tropical medicine specialist (name of the closest big city)”.
3) Get in touch with Dr. Omar Amin at the Parasitology Center at https://www.parasitetesting.com.
To conclude, we are unfortunately neither able to identify the worms our reader has been dealing with nor give her advice as to how to treat them. We hope nonetheless that the advice and resources we did provide proves helpful. We wish her the very best!
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Hello I would like to join your group.
This is Not a Clothing fibre, but this zoonotic parasite Is a master of ALL disguises: including “lint”, “cat hair”, “human hair”, usually 1-2″ inches in length which “popc out of your skin like a sringing puff of air. (white, dark brown /black AND an alternating pattern of white and black along the shaft. and it infests every nook and cranny of your psyche, home, life, wallet, body, mind, along with your pets and children. This parasite has a confounding evolution and our desperate need for Someone to believe us, Especially doctors (who most go the lazy routs and diagnose jackshit and call it “Parasitic Psychosis”, adding insult (and humiliation, toa profoundly disabling infestation – the body statchers.
I, myself think I may have been infected when I was in India and made pilgrimage to the glacial mouth of the Baghirati river, a main tributary of the Ganges River. Who knows if it came in through broken blisters, cuts, but I can trace my evolution of symptoms to the winter following that 1. Onth trek.
I have been doing, Volumes upon volumes of research, reading journals and keeping up with new microbiological developments due to climate change.
I’m starting a group and if you’re interested in finding support and sharing potential remedies, if only to keep you alive through This hell and the forthcoming hell of western medicine, feel free to reach out.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Kd**************@***il.com
Best,
Kristina
So of course they are marked out your email so of course they’re not going to let me give you mine but I could sure as hell use some help I am a terminally ill patient I had a scabies might at one time during chemotherapy and now have these black segment you know hair looking but thick hair just exactly like what you’re showing some of them are white and then as they die off and the mucus or fluid seems to leave them they turn almost translucent or just straight brown my skin has like literal ulcers in some places and doctors are treating me even a three-time cancer hospice patient at the hospital like I’m a freaking idiot no skin scrape no blood even taken like it’s disgusting and I’m curious to know because when I got like this build up after about 3 weeks in my urine I have piles of like black just stuff in the bottom of the toilet and my skin like I said has ulcers bites and these black segments and black spots come out of my skin constantly I saving samples now that I’m back on hospice and they I’m sure will hopefully help me but I mean I tried penworm treatment I tried ivermectin on the skin I tried taking permethrin from the feed store for horses literally and you can do it it won’t hurt you You just have to adjust the dose I’m sure they’ll black that out too but it’s not hard nor is it illegal nor is it anything so they really shouldn’t The factor remains that there is no one and I repeat no one on the web to help any of us The worm queen I’m sure a lot of you heard of her she is basically just pushing a detox kit for various parasites and metals and things like that and what’s happening you know if she’s not showing anything she’s not helping with description of anything she’s not showing any pictures of anything I mean there’s literally no point to her being the worm queen and I I guess her and her husband both are supposedly doctors so I am just completely shocked and you know people swear by her and love her and swear by her her detox but not one person on TikTok on and I hate TikTok by the way but you know have to research where I can so yes she you know at first she had me for a minute even like I was like okay maybe this lady can help me and I have left comments I have emailed her directly they have no intention of helping you figure out what’s in you just hey pick this parasitic cleanse and then it won’t matter cuz it’ll come out you know well it does matter It matters to me and it matters to my psyche for going through this for 30 days now and they do sting the skin they do drop egg sacs that look like just fluffy things in the air like if you stand outside in the sun and you flap your shirt it is like I must be infested to the hills at this point because it’s been so long and no one will help me and the ulcers on my arm are absurd and it didn’t come from picking I don’t have any pics anywhere on my face or body or anything It caused a bacterial infection that was so bad it looked like you took a melon ball scooper to my left arm so anyway I would pray that they could put us in touch and that maybe together we could all get somewhere because that Reddit crap is another reddit.com I would like to just like punch somebody in the face I’m so upset and that’s not me at all I swear I’m like the biggest hardest person ever and that’s why I haven’t left the house not only in my you know obviously very sick but I have not left the house nor seen my son best friend no one for over 30 days because I would not give this to my worst enemy and I don’t even have one so I think to me that speaks volumes but I have watched the complete cycle of these things and it is frightening it is scary it I think in me created a perfect storm of sort of everything came to the surface with the way I wish you know taking medication and then the penworm medication and then ivermectin and then you know trying to keep my skin clean and as they would drop off of me or run down me in the shower you know they tell you to start with your head of course well you would feel a Sting like an irritation to your skin it’s a very least but I’m telling you it’s a sting and they burrow in you My skin is gray you can see where the lines are the calluses on my thumb that started where they had deposit in themselves You can see these things these little curly cues and you know some of them have made actual like dense in the skin so I don’t know I’m praying for all of us like seriously and I even took medical I went to medical school at Florida State and I had to quit because I got cancer yay me and so I have a lot of background to begin with and then I’ve been sick my entire life from 19 on with three different diagnoses of cancer lupus many many other things and now my organs are shutting down so they’re really quick to blame all of this on my liver function well you know some of it may be but I’m not okay with that and and when I have grit falling in my eye from my eyelashes and the edge of my hairline whatever that grit may be I don’t feel so comfortable I don’t know about you so I’m amazed I’m still saying so so is my psychiatrist who let me disclose I see because I have trauma from a previous abusive husband other than that I mean they’re unless we figure this out there’s no way to completely keep yourself safe these things you know go in your cup they go in your straws they go in your and I’ve seen that black like just junk clunky crap in the bottom of the toilet in my in my you know insulated cup with a strong so I’m now using throwaway silo cups but you know you’re still getting it on there so there’s just nothing to do and nowhere to go and if I read another you know Reddit comment I’m going to probably stab my own eyeball out and of course I’m joking but no gun I’m probably eating so much trouble for this comment but I wish they would allow us to come together because this is bull crap and if somebody doesn’t start allowing people to come together and share pictures that they can actually find out what the hell it is would be nice cuz let’s face it and I know this was a book of a comment but it all needed to be said and what also needs to be said and what is written by the CDC and John Hopkins and places like that is the doctors literally avoid this like the plague they don’t want to know they don’t want to treat they don’t want to help us it’s just like the horsehair worm and the claim that that cannot inhabit a human I get news for you I don’t believe that for a second and I tend to lean to a bit to Blake what this is asks a lot like a horse hair and parasite and that or a threadworm and I know they say a threadworm is a panorm so you know whatever but somebody needs to start clarifying fast you know and you know they told me I couldn’t even go see the infectious disease doctor until I had a actual diagnoses with a parasite well how the hell am I going to get that when no one will even do a skin scrape The lady literally told me that they didn’t have a microscope I was like I’ll go buy one and do it my damn self and then bring it back to you and you can look through freaking I don’t know like an ear freaking tube thing with the light that shines down your throat and in your ears because I can feel the buildup in the back of my throat everywhere but until then they’re just leaving us to rotenham and that’s a fact