A MAN has shared horrifying pictures of a giant 32ft tapeworm that he pulled out of his backside while using the toilet.
Kritsada Ratprachoom, 44, from Udon Thani in north eastern Thailand, was stunned when he felt something “sticking out of his bottom” and wriggling when he was using the bathroom.
5
At first the freelance photographer thought it was a piece of string leftover from the surgery he’d had to have his appendix removed a week earlier.
However, he soon realised it was more than he’d bargained for – and the sticky and stretchy object was in fact a live tapeworm.
He told Khaosod: “I had just finished dropping my child off at school and ran some errands when I had to go for a number two.
“Afterwards, I felt like I wasn’t finished defecating, like something was left.
5
5
“So I got up to see what it was.
“Turns out there was something sticking out of my bottom.”
Kritsada began pulling on the worm and said he felt like it could have been stretched for up to 32ft.
After pulling it out of his behind, the baffled man put the worm down on the toilet cistern and it began slithering around.
Perplexed with what to do, Kritsada proceeded to flush the worm down the toilet.
5
5
He is clueless as to how the worm could have got inside of him in the first place.
Tapeworms are flat, ribbon-like worms that can live in your gut if you swallow their eggs or small, newly hatched worms.
Tapeworm infections are rare in the UK, but are fairly common in other parts of the world.
Tapeworms: the facts and figures
- Tapeworms are flat, ribbon-like worms that can live in the human gut if their eggs or newly hatched worms are swallowed.
- They are often discovered in human excrement and can be felt moving around in the colon.
- Other symptoms of tapeworm in the human body include diarrhoea, tummy pain, feeling sick, vomiting, changes to appetite and unexplained weight loss.
- More serious symptoms can appear if worms make their way to different parts of the body like the brain or the liver.
- Tapeworms can grow up to 55ft long and can survive in the intestine as long as 25 years.
- A tapeworm infection can be treated with a single tablet of a prescription medicine called niclosamide or praziquantel.
- The medication kills the worm so it passes out in your poo.
Many don’t cause obvious symptoms and can be easily treated.
But very occasionally, the worms can spread to other parts of the body and cause serious problems.
Tapeworms can grow up to 55ft long and can survive in the intestine as long as 25 years.
