BS: A plague of stomach worms

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 10:08 AM

Bobad: My info is that the rise in asthma is directly linked to environmental pollution. I suggest everyone subscribe to environmentalhealthnews.org.

Worms: Apple Cider Vinegar - the old Vermont folk medicine? Or check out the book Green Pharmacy by Duke. It is an excellent herbal by a man who has worked for the FDA in herbal research and is knowledgeable about Commission E in Germany. Also involved in a Bluegrass Band!

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Art Thieme
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 06:06 PM

EW
De Nile is in Egypt---but even those folks admit that Israel exists--and has a right to.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,E.W. Wriggler
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 05:26 AM

I hope so much that there's no such thing as Global Worming, Art, it would be the end of the free world as we know it.

In the meantime, I stayed on s0da water for 26 hours and all symptoms have kindly buggered off. and I hope they're gone for good.

Perhaps I'm a global worming denier, they say denial is greatest in places like Australia, where the symptoms are the most extreme. I mean, they have those Giant Gippsland Earthworms, some of which I've been told are up to 3 meters long, and can be ridden like those Dune worms, if you get a few drinks into them!! (shudder)

E.W.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 06:43 PM

You would have to step bare foot in dog doo

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Art Thieme
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 02:42 PM

What you all who harbor these things need in the worst way is for global worming to be an actual reality. Lets take it seriously and quit denying that it exists and is a real threat.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Lox
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 06:32 AM

... er ...


       .... How does one catch worms from ones dog? .....

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: robomatic
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 08:25 PM

I think the iPHONE has an app for that.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 08:50 AM

SIGH!
Art, that is beneath you...and all over the honder.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,Re
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 08:32 AM

Sometime worms are a great boon to folks with allergies or auto immune diseases. They are a virtual cure.

These wrigglers can also have a 30 year or longer "hibernation period. BUt these guys are teeny and not your ravenous 30 foot long tapeworm. THink of the movie Dune.

They do have a face only a mother could love.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,E.W. Wriggler
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 07:21 AM

Don't ask.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 12:05 AM

We wanted to grow honder plants in our garden but weren't having much luck. The local green thumb guru told me to drink absinthe because it would cause me to have a lot of gas. He also said that I should squat over the plants and flatulate 'em. He was certain that would solve our problems because ----- absinthe makes the fart grow honder!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 08:52 PM

innuendo . . .





. . .and out the other!

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 02:50 PM

I don't doodoo innuendo.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 02:34 PM

Might be a good time to schedule a colonoscopy. :)

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 01:02 PM

'ear 'ear

:D

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:26 PM

so it's possible that Van Gogh was parasite free, but he had other 'bugs'

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:11 PM

Absinthe is made with Wormwood. May not get rid of the worms but it will be fun trying...

:D (eG)

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 09:16 AM

that's great E.W.    it's very effective and gets rid of them in all their stages... 2 weeks on, one week off, then 2 more weeks on... after that a couple of times a week.... and a yearly clean out....

good luck.... this is one of the best things that we can do for improving our overall health.....

Subject: RE: Thread worms, worm thread, whatever
From: GUEST,Edith W.
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 07:25 AM

Guest, bankley, on 22 Dec you were kind enough to suggest I try Cloves Black Walnut and Wormwood. I went to the herbal pharmacist today and asked for something for parasites, and she provided me with a tincture made of just that. Compared to the flagyl, it tastes pretty good.

legs crossed *

E.W.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,E. W. Wriggler
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 05:32 AM

To everything, worms, worms, worms
there is a reason, worms, worms, worms
and a time for every parasite
under heaven.

..A time to laugh, a time to weep....

Well, a few months on, I ask myself. What is the purpose of life? Everything comes as a lesson, and that which you don't learn repeats itself. Despite battering rams of flagyl, despite garlic bombs and imodium, the parasites are flourishing and refuse to be diminished.

I am once more defeated.

Some say that things of the body are lessons for the spirit. So I have tried to be humble and embrace the spirit, but it appears insubstantial and evasive, like a flowing river. I ponder on the nature of water, its flow, as the Buddha did, when he sat by the river as a boatman, water as substance, as Jesus did when He walked on it, or water as a stream of life, as Tagore wrote? What can I learn from the nature of flowing water, to apply to this life lesson?

To move around obstacles, rather than facing them head on? To move rapidly and cleanse, rather than to stay stagnant? Should I contemplate the clear trickling brook? or the fireman's hose with it's blast of power?

I think at this stage it's time for water as liberator. I shall seek an internal irrigation, one of such magnitude that my lowest desires shall be purged, and flushed into the canals of life, there to flow eternally to the sea, while I stand tall and walk, evermore free of worms and those that seek to foster them.

Despair is a small price to pay for the hope that arises in pursuit of remedy.

I remain your constant

Edith Winsome

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,E. W.
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 02:20 AM

michaelr,

think - a combination of Victoria Falls and the Northwest Passage..

Think Vesuvius and the Underworld of Crete

Think urgent evacuation procedures...





no.


don't think.

E.W.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: michaelr
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 10:26 PM

How does one know that one's infested? What are the symptoms?

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 01:23 PM

surprisingly my new puppy just had a case of them. The vet said she probably had it when I got her and she probably picked it up from some bad water. He gave her an antibiotic of some type and told me that is one of the few parasites that humans can get from their dogs. I guess a dose of antibiotics gets rid of the critters but you have to get to the doc cause in humans they do make you sick sick sick.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 08:11 AM

a combination of wormwood, black walnut and groud cloves. Very effective. Available in liquid form. This will kill all stages, including the eggs. Most of us have parasites that can cause major health problems..... I mean MAJOR....

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,Edith Winsome
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 07:20 AM

.. yes, it was too early.

here goes for yet another bout of flagyll.

life is the moments between....








E.W.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,E.W. Wriggler
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 08:47 AM

well, it's been a couple of weeks of freedom from symptoms, and I'm letting myself hope. perhaps these pumpkin seeds have scared the little blighters away, or perhaps they're offended because i haven't been thinking about them.

Perhaps they're distracted, and busy watching someone else's TV to find out the results of the US election?

Perhaps it was that garlic bomb...

Mudcatters, is it too early to rejoice?

hopefully

Edith Winsome Wriggler ( * EW * )

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 02:27 AM

RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms

What??..Is Congress re-convening?

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 01:25 AM

From: Cluin
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 12:48 AM

Somebody needs a new hobby.

Why?? what's wrong with that??..Almost as fun as posting.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 12:48 AM

Somebody needs a new hobby.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: open mike
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 03:18 PM

i have heard of putting scotch tape on a kid's butt when
they go to sleep in order to catch pin worms which might
emerge at night--this is best in pre-pubescent sujects
(before pubic hair grows on them!) ouch...

https://www.labcorp.com/datasets/labcorp/html/chapter/mono/mb010800.htm

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: open mike
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 03:11 PM

sounds like you need a vermifuge
http://www.pfaf.org/database/search_use.php?K[]=Vermifuge
or antithelmitic
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/w/wormwo37.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/phytolacca-americana-1
not antibiotic

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: gnu
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 03:04 PM

Oh... in case you didn't see this....

Subject: RE: BS: Clam Chowder without milk??!!
From: gnu - PM
Date: 21 Oct 08 - 02:59 PM

Hehehe... minds me. That talk and slide show... that lad was the sfter dinner speaker at a house dinner (house = uni men's residence). Our Don's wife was a biology prof and she arranged for the talk.

One part of the talk dealt with worms from undercooked fish and seafood. Some of these worms live in the last quarter of the bowels. When the host is sleeping, they push their way partly past the anal sphincter and lay eggs. I shall stop there and not relay the remainder of the cycle of procreation. Suffice it to say that it involves itchiness in that region.

The speaker also said that if anyone thought they might be subject to such a parasite, they need only perform a simple task. Upon waking in the morn, they could pat a small piece of clear "Scotch Brand Tape" near the sphinter and subsequently fold it, thereby trapping any eggs, and submit it to our "Den Mother", as he called the Don's wife, in his rather austere English accent, for her analysis.

Well, our house had it's own dining hall, replete with a 72 year old cook who was often was forgetful. And, the kitchen served deep fried battered fish once a week. Out of 64 residents, 55 submitted said pieces of tape within two days and all tested positive.

The orange flavoured powder we were given to mix with water and drink daily for three days was tasty, but the lineups at the house toilets were excruciating.

Anyway, the bi-valves and bottom feeders in the Northumberland straight are extra tasty.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: gnu
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 03:02 PM

Yes, bobad. And, also, here in NB, our government is outsourcing the building and operation of schools. The for-profit companies that get these contracts only care about the bottom line, so the schools are definitely hazards for such problems due to the materials used for construction and due to the fact that fresh air costs money.

I find this absolutely sickening. So do many children.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: bobad
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 09:38 AM

The current popular hypothesis for the cause of a spike in asthma and allergies in children is that we are living in a more sanitized and sheltered world, depriving the immune system the stimuli it needs to fully develop.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 09:06 AM

Boy oh boy, when I was growing up my immune system had PLENTY to do! Stepping on rusty nails, eating...well, eating wild food without washing it, fish hooks in the fingers, cuts with a corn knife on the leg, being dropped on my head by my mother, my brother cutting my with a shovel while we were digging in dirt from the cemetery...hell's bells, I'll probably never die.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Grab
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 08:54 AM

i think I need a second bout

Almost certainly.

Most of these, you kill off the adults with whatever stuff you take to get rid of them, but the eggs in your system are still around. An *essential* part of treatment is to hit them with a second dose after the eggs have hatched but before the critters get to reproduce. For most of them, I think that's two weeks.

OTOH, I also remember the NewScientist article a little while back where people with IBS were deliberately given parasitic worms that live in pigs. The worms couldn't survive long-term in humans, but did for a bit. Most of these people, their IBS cleared up. A major current hypothesis is that IBS and other similar grief is caused by a lack of internal parasites, so your body's defence mechanisms get over-sensitive with nothing to do.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 04:49 AM

Come to think of it, we have several parasitic worms running for office!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 04:28 AM

From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 05:55 AM

Despite my protestations, I am forced to live in a house with four cats and two dogs,....

Forced??....Are you under house arrest at the kennel, or what?

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Alice
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 10:04 AM

You haven't said that you've tried drinking Aloe Vera juice.
My advice - go to a doctor and drink aloe vera juice.
From a trip in Central America, I can tell you that there's bad stuff in the water... aloe vera juice works.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 09:13 AM

Here's another bang-on cure:

Eat bread crumbled into milk only sprinkle a gill gunpowder (the old-fashioned black powder kind, not the new "smokeless powder") into it first. Don't smoke while preparing this.

If, however, you don't WANT to try these recipes I heartily endorse a good doctor, 'cause Death might not be be part of your plans for the immediate future.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 08:04 AM

Giardia? I suppose this is the culprit then. It's not really a worm, but a "flagellated protozoan parasite."

Here's an article from the US Center for Disease Control.

Yes, going to a doctor seems to be the right thing to do.

Maybe Edith has already been to a doctor. Otherwise, how could she have known it was Giardia? On the other hand, why did she think Giardia was a worm?

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST, E.W. Wriggler
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 07:49 AM

The comments on this thread have been moving. It has been heartening to read the diverse wisdom, including the very prudent comments re Flagyll.

Yes, my doc flagyllated me but i think I need a second bout. i imbibed some more garlic today, and strangely, while no one seems to want to be near me, it felt good.

I guess we're all just a bunch of microorganisms anyway, controlled by a sort of giant computer in the head that thinks it's in control. so, in some ways, this experience has been a spiritual one. I never feel alone anymore, because I'm reminded that I have company.

I appreciate the bonhomie and bon mots. soon i hope to report that the little ones have been empowered. I hope to engage in some internal capacity building, to assist them so they are no longer dependant on me and can find their own way in life, reach out into the sun, so to speak.



If not, i'LL BLITZ THE BASTARDS.

kind regards

E.W.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Alice
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 07:46 PM

I'm repeating what I said, too.... GO TO A DOCTOR!

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 07:45 PM

Jimmyt is right. DO NOT mess about with traditional remedies for this. Giardia is very difficult to kill off.

Probiotics can help, but only if you take them AS WELL AS something like Flagyl.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 06:55 PM

I am totally grossed out by this thread, and yet I am strangely drawn to it....

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 06:35 PM

If you can't get coal oil, you kin use turpentine.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 05:35 PM

Fascinating.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,Justin U
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 05:30 PM

gnu

Hahahahahaaaaa. Sorry if that's your real name.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Bee
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 05:10 PM

ee-ewww, Bobad! At the time, I was astounded to see one that big, and likely only ever saw one or two before, little ones. It looked like a big flaccid whitish earthworm, in fact.

Poor Trevor, though, had only just gotten past the whole ordeal of changing a diaper without upchucking. That he stayed after that for seventeen years is a tribute to his character!

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 04:45 PM

Coil oil is another name for kerosene. it is NOT to be taken internally. I suspect those who have come through it are OK despite not because of it.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: jimmyt
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 04:45 PM

What antibiotic were you taking? It should be Flagyl for a week, and if not cured, an additional week, followed by changing to a different antibiotic if needed. Giardia Lamblia is nothing to mess with and certainly home spun remedies will not be effective. Did you dring from a mountain stream to acguire it? that is a failry common way, the streams in the California mountrains although very inviting with their clear cold water often harbor Giardia Lamblia.

Certainly not the owert of the worm parasites, though. I worked with a parasite in a tropical health department program I worked in during dental school. A species called Mesosestoides Corti, that was spread by snakes and fish in Asia that would go into a larval stage in warm blooded host (man) and there would be billions of the little buggers until the patient died.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: bobad
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 04:27 PM

They can grow to more than a foot, Bee. I did some work in parasitology in a children's hospital way back when, saw some pretty interesting stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Bee
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 03:38 PM

True story:

Scene: a pleasantly darkened nap room in a day care centre. Two dozen preschoolers dreaming away with their blankies on their little cots. Reading quietly in the middle, a young man on a chair, who glances around now and then to see that all is well.

Rustling sounds. Young man looks to the source. Small girl is wriggling about on her cot.

"Are you okay, Ellie?" he whispers.

"Yah!" she whispers back.

"Okay, then try to go to sleep."

Muted rustlings ensue, then silence. A moment passes.

"Trevor?"

"What is it, Ellie?"

"Here!" she hold out her closed hand. The young man holds his hand out. She drops something in it, something warm. He strains to see in the dim light, but can't make it out.

"What is it, Ellie?"

"I don't know.....

"...it came out my bum."

(Did I mention this young man is rather squeamish, and hasn't been a day care worker for very long?)

He rises quickly, opens the door to let some light in. As he does, the thing in his hand moves. The beginnnings of a high thin scream is barely supressed as he rushes to the staff room across the hall.

Biggest roundworm I've ever seen - eight inches long at least.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 12:53 PM

Justin U

Hahahahahaaaaa. Sorry if that's your real name.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 10:50 AM

...now if it was pinworms, I could tell you.....


(been 30 years, but...arrrgggggg...the memory)

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Alice
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 10:38 AM

Aloe vera juice, the closest to raw plant the better, but
the best thing to do is go to a doctor. This is not something to
mess around with trying home remedies.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 10:34 AM

Attend a three-day festival featuring nothing but Elvis Presley impersonators.

Parasites would rather leave than feed on someone with such poor taste.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 09:45 AM

Piperazine Citrate syrup is sovereign for threadworms.

In the UK it used to be available at Boots Chemists (Pharmacists for US 'Catters) in a 125 ml. bottle.

Washing salad leaves, whether pre-packed or no is recommended - prevention is better than cure . . .

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 09:37 AM

ARRGGH

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: bobad
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 09:16 AM

OK, here's what you do. In the evening, before bed, drink a glass of milk and eat a cookie. Do this for five days. On the sixth day just drink the glass of milk. When the worm sticks it's head out and says "hey, where's my cookie", you hit it on the head with a hammer.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST, E.W. Wriggler
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 08:59 AM

.. now you tell me.. (burp)

Now where the hell am I goin' to get coal OIL? huh?
I'll try mixing in some garlic oil.





p.s. you were right about the virility bit, works fine.

E.W.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 08:55 AM

No! Not coal!! Coal oil!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST, E.W. Wriggler
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 08:51 AM

Rap, this is just the thoughtful advice I was looking for! It's the traditional remedies that have bite! God bless you, man, and your granma. Just what I needed! - burp -

E.W. (busy mixing coal, red hot chillis and sugar)

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 08:34 AM

My granma used to use coal oil and sugar, with a healthy dose of hot red pepper stirred in. In fact she used it for intestinal worms, head colds, appendicitis, ruptures, rusty nail punctures, diarrhea, colic, St. Vitus Dance, thumb sucking, bed wetting, hives, measles, mumps, acne, hair loss, "female problems," loss of virility, and to start the morning fire in the stove. Everyone in HER family was healthy as a horse, too. Nobody wanted to be treated with her medicine, so that stayed healty.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 07:56 AM

Crap! This is the stuff of nightmares. Thanks a lot!



EWWWWWWW!

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,E.W. Wriggler
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 07:16 AM

Thanks Ghiro, you've inspired me to guzzle some more garlic, if it works, it's worth it.

E.W.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,Justin U
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 07:03 AM

I remember my sister having a worm as a child, I think it's a thing of the past now.

I tell you what is dammed annoying, piles. And when they itch they are ten times worse. I have tried everything. Not a nice thing to talk about.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,Ghirotondo at work
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 06:09 AM

Try eating lots of garlic... although this does not improve social relations.
Ghiro.

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 06:03 AM

Some parasites only have 2 legs;)



XG

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 05:55 AM

Despite my protestations, I am forced to live in a house with four cats and two dogs, along with their assorted parasites. This does not make me a happy camper.
My wife uses all sorts of herbs and homeopathics and potions, but the damn animals still get parasites. So far, I haven't.
I don't wanna talk about parasites....

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,E.W. Wriggler
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 04:54 AM

Well spotted, Mr Offer, and a very good point made there, I suggest catters wipe their keyboard AND screen after reading this thread as it's a highly infectious one.

But despite appreciating your genial good will, I also still am very keen for advice as to how to eliminate this unpleasant infestation. I've tried pressing DELETE to no avail, CUT and PASTE has been ineffective, and drinking gallons of water, which left me a little flushed.

Is there a herballistic out there with some wisdom to share??

yours

EW

Subject: RE: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 04:38 AM

Not to make fun of your initials, Edith, but E-E-E-W!!!.

love,
-Joe-
(please keep your distance - I'm squeamish)

Subject: BS: A plague of stomach worms
From: GUEST,E.W. Wriggler
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 04:22 AM

Have you ever suffered a persistant (and after a while debilitating) worm jammed in your intestine? do you find yourself , deep in concentration on something important, groaning as your stomach reels from the rampant visitor(s) within? Have you saved on the time and cost of colonic irrigations by the violent attention of an internal microscopic tapdancer? have you ever been diagnosed with Giardia and discovered it's NOT a latin lover, but a very stubborn and persistent - parasitic infection? if the answer to ANY of the above is yes, How do you get rid of it?

I ask because a recent visitor has set up a colony in my intestine and is internally stalking me, resurging ever 20 days or so to remind me of my mortality. I initially tried ignoring it and hoping it would go away. I then got tough and took antibiotics. When chemicals failed, I tried liquid olive extract.

I have never had such a persistent admirer and last night resorted to eating large amounts of raw garlic. I have endured a day of feeling like a garlic bomb exploded inside me, and it seems like the cure is just as bad as the cause.

Mudcatters, from around the world, with your encyclopaedic and expert knowledge of life, the universe and everything, any suggestions for WORMS?

hopefully

Edith Winsome Wriggler (Just call me * EW * )