Eating large amounts of sugar causes thread worms?
2006-06-13 13:05:42 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Wives tale. Only ingesting the larvae of worms will give you the infection. The usual method of infection is oral-fecal, meaning you ate something that wasn't washed properly or you didn't wash your hands after touching microscopic amounts of feces with larvae in it.
2006-06-13 13:08:06 · answer #1 · answered by Almost MD 3 · 15⤊ 1⤋
Eating the sugar does not cause the worms. You have to eat worm larva to get worms. However if you do already have thread worms a symptom is craving large amounts of sugar because that's what the worms eat.
2006-06-13 13:25:21 · answer #2 · answered by sunnydayzd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
old wives tale! unless there are thread worms in the sugar but then you could only take one bite and get thread worms
2006-06-13 13:09:27 · answer #3 · answered by Isla 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true but it will give you other problems like obesity / diabetes / dental decay need I say more. Large amounts of sugar is not good for you.
2006-06-13 13:11:12 · answer #4 · answered by butterfly55freedom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Totally False!
2006-06-13 13:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by michelle_belle924 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wives tale! lol...c'mon...Du think worms literally appear from eating too much sugar? that would put everyone off eating it!
2006-06-13 13:09:20 · answer #6 · answered by sidesix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes its an old wives tale but i thought drinking beer wouldn't make you fat was an old wives tale as well but guess what ITS TRUE
2006-06-14 14:15:43 · answer #7 · answered by andy f 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It causes worms but dont know if they threadworms, you can usually see then wriggling about in your stools
2006-06-13 13:09:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old wives tale.
2006-06-13 13:07:27 · answer #9 · answered by franja 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
eating large amounts of sugar makes you obese......
2006-06-13 21:16:16 · answer #10 · answered by GWYNEIRA G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋