Is it true that you can have worms in your stomach?

Question

a friend told me that when she was young she used that bathroom ( doing #2) and a worm came out of her rectum. Can that really happen and what is the reason for such a thing? What is the age rang and time span of how long a worm can survive (if true). How would you know that you have worms also?

Answer 1

Okay first thing, is ask your friend all the foods she ate and how she cook them. And another thing is all the water she uses for drinking or eating. Where does that water come from. Also ask her if she spends time in a pond, lake, beach, ocean recently.

What happens is you can get worms and other parasites from coming in contact with them by spending time in ponds, lake or beach. They would come in contact with you and bite you and that's how parasite gets into your blood stream. Because parasites need a host in order to live your blood stream is perfect because it has all the nutrients that a parasite needs.

Also with foods especially raw meat or pork you can get chances of getting tape worm infection if you don't cook your meat products (pork especially) then these worms would survive and when you eat that meat you get the tape worm in you and it lives in your intestine.

I know there's one type of worm/ parasite. It's the ascarius worm and when it comes in contact with you the worm gets into your blood stream and lays eggs. Then these eggs get into your intestine and it it hatches and you literally gets lots worms in your intestine. These worms feed on nutrients from food you eat so you don't absorb alot of nutrients from foods you eat. You become malnourished, tired, and you lose weight.

It's possible to have a worm to come out of your rectum because some would try to get out. But death results when you get alot of worms blocking your intestines.

How long a worm can survive in your body depends on what type of worms they are. Every parasitic worms are different and they vary in their life span. Some can stay in your intestines or body for years.

It's hard to say how you know if you have worms. First it depends on where you live and how often you spend time in ponds, lakes, beaches.
Symptoms are hard to tell. But usually it's when you lose weight, have increased or decreased appetite, you are tired, depressed, have soreness, but then these symptoms can be related to other types of disease. if you live in tropical places or traveled to a tropical country and you came back you should consider asking the doctor to do some tests on you.

If you live in north america that shouldn't be a problem.

Hopefully that helps you . Good luck . :)

Answer 2

Yes, you can, and it can be fatal, too! There is a thing called a tapeworm that lives in the human intestines if it gets a chance, and if you eliminate part of it, it has a segmented body and the rest can stay in there and continue to cause trouble. Basically what it does is absorb the nutrients in your food so that you starve. But if you had a tapeworm, you would be sickly, losing weight rapidly, and having pains in your gut.

There are other sorts of worms, too, but they are not normally found in the bowels. Ringworm lives under the skin, and possibly can also get into internal organs if it is in impure food. In either case, you would know because it would cause you pain.

Answer 3

Yes it's true. Look up Pinworms or Pin Worms in your medical Funk and Wagnel. Worms of this kind are parasites that live in your intestines. They go in through your mouth on something you eat, so cook and wash your food and look at what you are eating. It's rare and treatable, just creepy, so don't go gettin' all paranoid. Life is messy and it wouldn't be any fun if it weren't. The eggs and worms can be seen in the feces.

Answer 4

The burden of disease caused by infection
with schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted
helminths (STH) remains enormous. About
2 billion people are affected worldwide, of
whom 300 million suffer associated severe
morbidity. In 1999, WHO estimated that
these infections represented more than 40%
of the disease burden caused by all tropical
diseases, excluding malaria.
Hygiene and play habits make children especially
vulnerable to schistosome and STH
infections. The 400 million school-age children
who are infected2 are often physically
and intellectually compromised by anaemia,
leading to attention deficits, learning disabilities,
school absenteeism and higher dropout
rates. The failure to treat school-age children
therefore hampers child development,
yields a generation of adults disadvantaged
by the irreversible sequelae of infection, and
compromises the economic development of
communities and nations.

Answer 5

Worm larvae and eggs can survive a lot. Once hatched, they can live inside you for years. I have seen many shows on Discovery channel and the learning channel where people have defecated and fould large worm remnants in the toilet or hanging out of their anus. It is important to cook beef, eggs, and pork thoroughly to kill them. Also, wear shoes when walking in the woods or in a farm area. Worms like to hook themselves on your feet and work their way into your guts. Also, I have heard that in Africa, Asia, and other underdeveloped countries with lots of contaminated water, you could catch worms in your penis, vagina, or mouth or nose if you bathe or swim in such contaminated waters.

Answer 6

yes its very true, there have been people that have had tape worms that grew to be quite large (lenghts of over a foot). you usually will have rectal itching and also increased appetite with weight loss as the worms will be eating the protein off of what you are eating.

Answer 7

yes, it could actually happen. we become infested with worms when we take in their eggs. their eggs are very resistant to the acidic nature of our stomach thus surviving and are able to pass through it. when it arrives at the colon and the environment is much more favorable. they hatch and live. their mouth has modified suckers and even spines that allow them to attch themselves and suck on nutrients. your friend's problem could be anything from ascariasis or pinworms. ascariasis are notorious for relocating almost anywhere in the body while pinowrms usually stay in the anal region at night producing intense itch at night time.

Answer 8

Yes. Most of the time third world countries is where this occurs.

Read the link for the best medical description.

The second link give home remedies and ways to recognize if you have them.

Answer 9

some tests can show that worms,the true is worms lives in intestins not in stomack and thats can be happened if you eat un cooked meat,

Answer 10

Yes. You can get "intestinal worms" from eating bad meat. They're a nasty parasite that only comes out of your body one way.....

eww... I'm shivering just thinking about them.....