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Can worms come up your throat?

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After maturing, the roundworms leave your lungs and travel to your throat. You'll either cough up or swallow the roundworms in your throat. The worms that are swallowed will travel back to your intestine.


Can worms crawl up your throat?

Larvae hatch from the eggs in your small intestine and then go through the intestinal wall to travel to the heart and lungs via the bloodstream or lymphatic system. After maturing for about 10 to 14 days in your lungs, the larvae break into your airway and travel up the throat, where they're coughed up and swallowed.

Can worms come out your mouth?

In heavy infestations, it's possible to find worms after you cough or vomit. The worms can come out of other body openings, such as your mouth or nostrils. If this happens to you, take the worm to your doctor so that he or she can identify it and prescribe the proper treatment.

Can you get worms in your tonsils?

Doctor's soon identified the culitrp: a 1.5-inch (38 millimeter) black worm in her tonsil. Further tests revealed that the woman had been infected with Pseudoterranova azarasi, a parasitic roundworm, that typically infects marine mammals such as walruses and seals, Newsweek reported.

What illness makes you cough up worms?

Paragonimiasis is caused by infection with a flatworm. That's a parasitic worm also called a fluke or lung fluke because it commonly infects the lungs. Usually, infection comes after eating undercooked crab or crayfish that carry immature flukes.

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