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How are intestinal worms passed?

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Worms in your gut eventually pass through your digestive system and are excreted in your feces. Even if you don't have any symptoms, you may find signs of worms in your stool. Worms in human poop can take a number of appearances. For roundworms, you may find pieces of worms or large, live worms in your feces.


How are worms passed from person to person?

Worms are mainly spread in small bits of poo from people with a worm infection. Some are caught from food. You can get infected by: touching objects or surfaces with worm eggs on them – if someone with worms doesn't wash their hands.

Is intestinal worms contagious?

Intestinal parasites are contagious to other animals and humans. Because they primarily inhabit the GI tract, larvae, or eggs, are passed in the feces. The infective larvae then inhabit the soil around the feces, leaving other dogs, and children, vulnerable to accidental ingestion and subsequent infection.

Do intestinal worms come out in poop?

It often lives in human feces (poop). People catch it through hand-to-mouth contact. If you have a roundworm infection of your intestines (ascariasis), you may not have symptoms. You may see live worms in your poop though.

Where do intestinal worms come from?

You get it by eating infected meat, especially pork, that's raw or undercooked. When a person eats infected meat, stomach acid dissolves cysts in the meat to release worm larvae. The worms go to the intestine, grow up, mate, and lay eggs. After hatching, young worms go through the blood to the muscles.

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