Re: Toxocariasis or Baylisascaris?

[Guest guest]

Not to worry; I'm ready for any hard news any of you might have. Even

if the prognosis is death or worse. I just want honest-to-goodness

information about my symptoms.

- Arian I.

>

> Greetings. Last Saturday I ate an herb and a few blades of grass

off

> the ground at an airport, in an open field. (This was during an air

> show when there were a few hundred people.) Ever since Monday I've

been

> feeling a bit funny and at times I see transparent rodlike floating

> objects in my field of vision. Not only that, but I've been having

> pneumonia-like symptoms (cough and copious amounts of phlegm),

> accompanied by a dry throat. Finally, at times I have a bit of pain

in

> my head and it is difficult for me to concentrate. I believe I

might

> have swallowed a few toxocaria eggs. I could say Baylisascaris, but

I

> ate an herb off the ground in an open field with no trees and short

> grass, and from what I understand raccoons are forest animals. Also

I

> did not see any latrines nearby, although the nearest building is a

> hangar that, from what I know, is in everyday use. Even so, I would

> like some secondary opinions before arriving at any conclusions.

>

> I heard that ginger can kill roundworm larvae. Is this true?

>

> - Arian I.

>

[Guest guest]

It would probably take a lab analysis of your stool and blood to identify the

problem. Eating unwashed herbs from anywhere on this planet is not a good idea.

you can get e.coli from deer droppings touching dropped apples. But there are

literally thousands of other pathegens that could be

ai3131 <ai3131@...> wrote: Not to worry; I'm ready for any hard news any

of you might have. Even

if the prognosis is death or worse. I just want honest-to-goodness

information about my symptoms.

- Arian I.

>

> Greetings. Last Saturday I ate an herb and a few blades of grass

off

> the ground at an airport, in an open field. (This was during an air

> show when there were a few hundred people.) Ever since Monday I've

been

> feeling a bit funny and at times I see transparent rodlike floating

> objects in my field of vision. Not only that, but I've been having

> pneumonia-like symptoms (cough and copious amounts of phlegm),

> accompanied by a dry throat. Finally, at times I have a bit of pain

in

> my head and it is difficult for me to concentrate. I believe I

might

> have swallowed a few toxocaria eggs. I could say Baylisascaris, but

I

> ate an herb off the ground in an open field with no trees and short

> grass, and from what I understand raccoons are forest animals. Also

I

> did not see any latrines nearby, although the nearest building is a

> hangar that, from what I know, is in everyday use. Even so, I would

> like some secondary opinions before arriving at any conclusions.

>

> I heard that ginger can kill roundworm larvae. Is this true?

>

> - Arian I.

>

[Guest guest]

>

> It would probably take a lab analysis of your stool and blood to

identify the problem. Eating unwashed herbs from anywhere on this

planet is not a good idea. you can get e.coli from deer droppings

touching dropped apples. But there are literally thousands of other

pathegens that could be >

Well, it was on an open field in an airport and the only thing there

are burrowing owls. Even so, from where I ate the herb there weren't

any burrows. Wildlife in an airport is usually found in the periphery

and anywhere else that is not frequently visited by humans. Fortunately

there weren't any raccoons in the area, let alone raccoon droppings.

You say I should check into the doctor's office for a blood test.

Perhaps I should ask for an eosinophil test. Usually this is the

strongest indication that a parasite is present; the immune system

works hard to fight it and the symptoms associated therewith are

indicative of that. As for stools, I did a test a few weeks ago and

they did not detect any ova therein. Finally, toxocara and

baylisascaris do not reproduce inside human bodies, so I think that an

ova test would be useless in this case.

- Arian I.

[Guest guest]

>

> It would probably take a lab analysis of your stool and blood to

identify the problem. Eating unwashed herbs from anywhere on this

planet is not a good idea. you can get e.coli from deer droppings

touching dropped apples. But there are literally thousands of other

pathegens that could be >

I've just thought of something. Perhaps all these funny sensations

might be caused by an overloaded-with-mucoidal-plaque bowel, not

roundworms; my digestion times seem to be a bit too long. For example,

I ate a roast pork chop suey dish on Wednesday at about 4 pm. It was

only around 4 pm the nexy day that I began to pass anything, and that

wasn't more than one dropping. I had to take some castor oil a few

hours later just to get things going, Only this morning did I have any

movement, and it was the ginger I ate the day before.

In any case I'd do a cleanse before going on a full-blown anti-parasite

program. So far I've been eating mostly ginger and some fruit.

- Arian I.