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A worm in the eye

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I hate this thread.

Most things I can handle... but worms (as in getting worms, not earthworms) for some reason give me the shivers. I think I'd rather get shot than get worms.


*shudder*
 
Want to get really grossed out?

The pics are examples of what goes on in your skin on a microscopic level every day, you have a whole ecosystem living on/in your body.

I've seen a couple of patients with worms/maggots in wounds, it is one of the few things that makes me want to vomit. You never forge the smell...
 
Originally posted by: UberVoodooFX9700
so uh how the hell did it get there?
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Probably the same way maggots get into anything, a fly laid an egg.
 
Originally posted by: yamahaXS
Originally posted by: ohtwell
Originally posted by: yamahaXS
Originally posted by: ohtwell
I once had a cat that had one of those fully mature under the skin and it popped open a hole on her back. At least that worm never had the chance to fully mature or it might have doen the same thing to his eye. I imagine that would hurt really bad.


: ) Amanda
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double nasty!
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I can make it triple nasty.

I saw the hole and what I thought was pus inside it. Then I noticed that the puss seemed to move but I thought that was just the cat so I just shrugged it off. I noticed that the hole wasn't closing so I examined it again and noticed that the puss had two black eyes. :Q I ended up getting a pair of tweezers and pulling out this big, nasty, yellow worm type thing. The hole closed and healed fine after the worm was gone.


: ) Amanda
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good god please stop!
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When my pug was a puppy, she got worms really bad once, but it didn't seem to come out in her bowel movement, I think she hacked them up, I was about to get in the shower when I look down at a pile of squirming worms and my puppy with her tail down and sad looking. The worms looked just like spaghetti noodles and were just as long. 😱 I killed them with some bleach and oxyclean before wiping them otherwise they'd been squirming in my hand and up my arm. :Q
 
Somebody here on the forum went to S. America on vacation and came back with one of those in his shoulder (?) about 6 months ago if I remember correctly.
 
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Somebody here on the forum went to S. America on vacation and came back with one of those in his shoulder (?) about 6 months ago if I remember correctly.
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Nasty. Remind me never to visit tropical countries.....
 
Yuck. I'm gonna buy someworm medicine and take some tomorrow. Just to be sure.

Anyway, my dog had a huge fight with my neighbor's dog, and ended up with a bad wound on his neck. Maggots infested the wound and it was so smelly with flies and everything. Luckily my sister cleaned it up everyday, my dog is doing fine now. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Want to get really grossed out?

The pics are examples of what goes on in your skin on a microscopic level every day, you have a whole ecosystem living on/in your body.

I've seen a couple of patients with worms/maggots in wounds, it is one of the few things that makes me want to vomit. You never forge the smell...
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Doctors are now using maggots to help keep wounds cleaned out and disinfected while it is healing. Used for large wounds that would otherwise leave lots of scar tissue. They put a few tiny larvae on the wound, and then bandage it up. After a few months later, take the bandage off, larvae are huge, but the skin is smooth and healed. This works because the maggots don't eat live tissue, only tissue that is already dead. So they actually are beneficial...
 
Originally posted by: LAUST
how in the hell does that happen
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Bot Flies lay their eggs on mosquitoes. The eggs hatch in the mosquito and the larvae are transmitted to humans when the mosquito bites the human.


: ) Amanda
 
Originally posted by: dxkj
the mosquito bit him on the eye?
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A good bet was that the boy after touching the area that the mosquito had landed accidentaly transferred the egg to his hand, and then touched or rubbed his eye.
 
Doctors are now using maggots to help keep wounds cleaned out and disinfected while it is healing. Used for large wounds that would otherwise leave lots of scar tissue. They put a few tiny larvae on the wound, and then bandage it up. After a few months later, take the bandage off, larvae are huge, but the skin is smooth and healed. This works because the maggots don't eat live tissue, only tissue that is already dead. So they actually are beneficial...
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Yeah, Ive seen that on tv where a diabetic guy had some big sores on his feet and the docs used maggots to treat them. They showed the sores and then inserted the maggots. A few weeks later the maggots were pleasantly plump and the mans foot was healed. Funny thing he said was: They sure generate a lot of heat! Yummy!


Peace


Lounatik
 
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