the ascarid roadtrip through your body:
The adult worms live in the small intestine and eggs are passed in the feces. A single female can produce up to 200,000 eggs each day! About two weeks after passage in the feces the eggs contain an infective larval or juvenile stage, and humans are infected when they ingest such infective eggs. The eggs hatch in the small intestine, the juvenile penetrates the small intestine and enters the circulatory system, and eventually the juvenile worm enters the lungs. In the lungs the juvenile worm leaves the circulatory system and enters the air passages of the lungs. The juvenile worm then migrates up the air passages into the pharynx where it is swallowed, and once in the small intestine the juvenile grows into an adult worm. Why Ascaris undergoes such a migration through the body to only end up where it started is unknown. Such a migration is not unique to Ascaris, as its close relatives undergo a similar migration in the bodies of their hosts.


Ascarids are generally shy, and most people have no symptoms. If you are heavily infected, you'd probably get gut wrenching abdominal pain. Sometimes, while the immature worms migrate through the lungs, you may cough and have difficulty breathing. If you have a very heavy worm infection, your intestines may become blocked. if your guts are "barado" your jebbing will be incapacitated. which most probably sucks big time.


IF you use fertilizer in your cutesy little garden, beware! wash and peel your veggies before eating. boil them if you must, for ascarid eggs can be transmitted from pig shit [which is used for most fertilizers]!

people get infected by ingesting worm-eggs after touching soil and stuff which has em.
pwera lang kung isa kang hunghang na lokaret na kumakain ng buhangin at lupa.


if you think you got them worms, make a stool sample. i need not tell you how. a speck of your jebbs is enough... though i knew of someone who submitted his entire 24-hours' worth of turd-rolls. anyhoo, if ascarid eggs are found, you got it! [although, along with severe ascarid infections may be other pains like amoebic infections, other types of worms, and blablabla]

And you think you can drink ten gallons of tequila to burn them out of your system? well if you can do so. but hell, i'd prepare the flowers for your grave. usually, drinking alcohol turns them into a frenzied mass of individuals wanting to get out of the way of the scalding alcohol... and, well... in their panic, escaping the torturous flood may bring them to places never-before seen... such as your heart.. arteries... or.. or..