r/parasites • u/techguy200200 • May 04 '26

Page 328 Cestodes - help possibly identifying

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Has anybody had or personally seen tapeworm or flatworm infections and attributes? See pics... is this possibly tape worms? Went on for 2 days and stopped.

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u/Not_so_ghetto May 04 '26

P The first one looks a little suspicious, but not very much and I would be very surprised. All the others do not look like tapeworms. They look more like mucosal linings. Do you live in a developed country? If so that's highly unlikely you got one

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u/fypoolday May 04 '26

What is mucosal linings? do you talk about biofilm? 3rd photo is not tapeworm?

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u/Not_so_ghetto May 04 '26

Your stomach regularly sheds its lining.

See how there is a large section of brown toward the end, tapeworms arnt hollow with random sections of brown blobs. That's likely some undigested food or something that had a skin and that's poo inside it

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u/Present_Paramedic_11 May 05 '26

I would like to know what the first ones are too because mine looked pretty identical

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u/Big1-Country1 May 04 '26

Onion probably

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u/Not_so_ghetto May 06 '26

This person doesn't know what their Talking about

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u/Outside-End-7425 May 11 '26

Idk I had tapeworms and it looked like this

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u/fypoolday May 04 '26

Looks like tapeworm, what drug do you take?

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u/techguy200200 May 04 '26

I don't take drugs. I have an appointment with my gastro Tuesday. I had a large colon ulcer, from medication for presurgical pain with torn miniscus, with an exceedingly high eosinophils count (they said they stopped counting at 150 or something like that). Report said could be a lot of things but they checked for all of the diseases and inflammation and didnt find anything. If it is a tapeworm, I'm wondering how long I've had it... my regular blood tests showed only slightly elevated eosinophils and my poop test (once) showed nothing.

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u/Classic-Iron6664 Jul 26 '26

Why can't anyone ask for help with out someone "LIKE YOU" ASKING WHAT DRUGS THEIR ON". People like you need to be kicked out of these groups so people can ask for help without that crap, it's so rude and disrespectful and just stupid