what does it mean if there are little white worms in your poop?

Answer 1

You're a racist.

Answer 2

Tiny White Worms In Poop

Answer 3

Little white worms are called "Pin Worms"
They are more common in children then adults

Pinworms are small, white worms that live in the intestines. Pinworm infections are common in young children and are easily treated.

If your child is infected with pinworms, you may notice him or her moving around a lot in bed at night or being unable to sleep because of an itchy bottom. The itching is caused by the female pinworm that comes out of the rectum to lay eggs around the anus (the opening to the rectum). Sometimes tiny white worms (shorter than 1/2 inch) may be seen on the child's bottom at night or they may show up in the child's bowel movement.

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How do people get pinworms?

Pinworms are easy to get. Pinworms are usually spread from child to child, and the eggs can be picked up on children's fingers when they are playing. Eggs can stay or your child's skin for several hours. They can survive for 2 weeks on clothes, bedding and toys. If the eggs are on your child's hands or toys, and your child puts their fingers or toys in their mouth, the tiny eggs can enter their bodies. The eggs stay in the upper part of the intestine until they hatch. After they hatch, the worms move down the length of the intestine, and then out the anus where they lay eggs.

When children scratch their itchy bottoms, the tiny eggs can get under their fingernails. As the children move around the house, the eggs may be spread, and other family members may become infected. Sometimes adults breathe in the eggs when the bed covers are shaken. However, this is very uncommon. Children easily infect each other while they are playing and by not thoroughly washing their hands before eating. Pets do not spread pinworms, although they may carry their own kinds of worms.

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How are pinworms detected?
Because pinworms usually crawl out of the anus while a child sleeps, the tape test is an easy way to find pinworms. It's best to do this right when your child wakes up and before he or she uses the bathroom or bathes. To do the tape test, your doctor will give you a tongue depressor with a piece of clear tape on the end. You will press the end of the tongue depressor--with the tape on it--against your child's anal skin. Then the tape is placed sticky-side down on a glass slide. If your child has pinworms, your doctor will be able to see the eggs with a microscope. You may even see the worms around the anus during the tape test.

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How do we get rid of pinworms?

Most pinworm infections are mild and easily treated. Your doctor may prescribe a single chewable tablet of a medicine called mebendazole (brand name: Vermox). About 2 weeks later, a second tablet is taken. Or your doctor may recommend another kind of medicine, pyrantel (brand names: Pin-X, Pin-Rid). This is also taken in 2 doses about 2 weeks apart.

Even if only one child in a family has pinworms, it is very important that everyone in the household be treated with the pinworm medicine at the same time, even if they don't have any signs of pinworms. All the sheets, blankets, towels and clothing in the house should be washed in hot water, and everyone's fingernails (which might hold the worm eggs) should be carefully cleaned and cut short.

If you get treatment from your doctor right away and keep everything in the house very clean, your family's encounter with pinworms should soon be over.

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Answer 4

Means you have worms and better go to the doctor

Answer 5

It means you have a tape worm..... You can get it from cats and dogs.... Fleas come and lay eggs on your pet and sometimes the eggs are swallowed and they hatch and then you poop them out.... you gotta go to the doctor before it gets worse.

Answer 6

It means you have pin worms, probably. Medicine will take care of them or, and I'm serious, eat raw garlic cloves three or four times a day. The garlic will kill them since it is a natural vermicide.

Answer 7

Run don't walk to your Doctor and get help.
I'm sure they sell worm med's at the drug store ,but if I were you I'de see my Doc, to see what kind of worms they are .You might get the wrong kind of meds at the Drug store

Answer 8

No doctor needed, get some black walnut hull extract and take that it will kill the worms and you can flush them away

Answer 9

you need to get some worm tablets from the chemist to take and that will kill them

Answer 10

I would say it is safe to say that you have an internal parasite of some kind, might want to get that checked out.

Answer 11

Get to the doctor, as soon as possible.