Pinworm: A passerby once in a lifetime

There is a small white bug, almost 1 to 1.5 cm long, and some have a pointed tail, which especially likes to visit our intestines. One in two people in the world has been "visited" by it at least once in their lifetime. For some people it is a hurried visitor, without feeling; but for some people, it is a completely uninvited guest, and it is impossible to pour bitter water with others. If by chance, you can still see it sticking out of your anus to say hello to you. To complement us, they have evolved specific ways of behaving over the centuries. As long as you have a mouth and fingers, it may come to your home.

What's going on? Let me talk about it backwards: the pregnant pinworm lady wants to give her eggs a safe future, but this is not easy, because it must let humans swallow its eggs first, and then let them hatch in the small intestine, so that it is possible to come to the large intestine as adults. But now this big-bellied mother-to-be is sitting at the end of the intestine, just the opposite direction of the baby's egg, and the whole world is singing the opposite tune with it! So it asked itself, how exactly can it get back into the mouth? Finally it came up with a good idea, which was the most instinctive wisdom of living things—the wisdom of survival of the fittest.

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Ms. Pinworm learned when we were going to rest and when we would lie down for a moment and a half without getting up. So it specifically picked this time to get up and crawl to the anus, lay the eggs in the many small folds of the entrance, and then started to twist and drill until it made us itch unbearably. Experience tells it that it is time to crawl back into the intestines, because soon a finger will reach out and aim only one thing, which is to tickle! It then carefully sticks its head out of its anus and pushes the egg toward the itchy spot. The nerves that signal itching will call the police again at this time: "Scratch me!" "We will honestly follow the orders, decisively fight the fire and become the porters of the pinworm eggs." The rest of the matter is for the mother pinworm to sit back and relax, because her baby has already boarded the express train to the mouth.

When are we least likely to wash our hands after scratching our butts? Of course, when we are sleeping, either we are too tired to stand up, or we are already asleep, and the act of tickling occurs unconsciously. And this time is also the best time for pinworms to lay eggs. The next time you nibble your finger in your dream, it's when the mother pinworm is sneaking around. Do you suddenly feel like you have no appetite now? Don't worry, this isn't the first time you've eaten an animal egg — eggs are also chicken eggs, but one is a little bigger and a little smaller, and one is generally cooked before eating a direct raw swallow.

Such an uninvited sojourner who settles directly in our intestines is simply an embarrassment and embarrassment. If you complain to your friends about bitter water, everyone will definitely look at you like a monster, and the eyes seem to be evaluating how dirty, messy, and poor your life is. At this point, pinworms are a little different, they will wake us up in the morning, give our immune system a massage, and will not grab food with us.

Of course, it is not a wise choice to keep pinworms in residence, but it is not so bad to entertain them once in a lifetime. Scientists have even speculated that if children are infected with pinworms, they can help them avoid severe asthma or diabetes later on. So it seems that we should welcome Ms. Pinworm and Mr. Pinworm to visit. But remember, hospitality also has to be measured, and if guests unconsciously get in the way of you, ask them to leave immediately and mercilessly. If the following three points occur, it means that the time for eviction orders has arrived:

1. Sleep badly at night, have difficulty concentrating and have fragile nerves during the day.

2. Ectopic parasitism, that is, bugs get lost and run to places they shouldn't go (such as urethra or appendix). Although they didn't mean it, it's too dangerous to keep a roadworm bug in your stomach, it's a ticking time bomb.

3. The intestines are already sensitive, or the insects are overactive and cause the intestines to become sensitive. Each person's representation will also be somewhat different: constipation, diarrhea, stomachache, headache, nausea, or possibly nothing.

As long as you meet any of the above points, it is best to see a doctor immediately. When you get to the hospital, the doctor will probably give you a roll of transparent glue and tell you intimately: "Just paste it on the ass eye, paste a few more strips, and tear it down and hand it down for laboratory testing." Come back to me with the test form. Don't forget to pay first. "The eggs are nothing more than small balls, transparent glue can firmly stick them, and the most important thing is to stick in the morning, because at that time the pinworm lady has almost laid the eggs and placed them around the anus." Don't stick it after the bath, when you take a bath, you will use water to bring the whole pot of eggs to the people, and there is nothing left for you to stick. So to stick in the morning, the first thing to touch the ass after waking up must be transparent glue.

The eggs under the microscope are oval in shape, and if a larvae have evolved within the eggs, a linear object can be seen in the middle of the egg. Doctors will prescribe medicines according to the degree of infection, the most typical of which is mebendazole, which works on a very simple basis, that is, for tat, and eye for eye.

Mebendazole is an oral drug. On the way from the mouth to the intestines, it will encounter small pinworms that follow it. These pinworms, of course, also have an oral cavity and intestine, and mebendazole enters the pinworm's mouth, and then still follows the same route - from the mouth to the intestine. Mebendazole is much more harmful to the intestines of insects than to us, and it sets strict diet meals for the bugs – so that they can't get their sugar intake. And bugs must eat sugar if they want to survive, so this diet meal becomes their last supper. In general, these uninvited guests were eventually starved to death by using mebendazole.

Pinworm eggs can survive for a long time. In order to match the effect, you have to completely eliminate finger gnawing. If you can't guarantee this, you should at least try to keep the number of eggs around you to a minimum. The first is to wash your hands frequently. Then the sheets and underwear are changed every day, and the changed intimate clothes and sheets are washed with water above 60 degrees Celsius. Apply ointment when the itching is unbearable, and try to avoid scratching it with your hands anyway. My mother firmly believes that eating garlic bugs every day will disappear, and I have not found a scientific basis anyway. But there is no scientific literature on what clothes to wear at what temperature, but my mother is always right in this regard, so I will first think that this is all the empirical wisdom in the lives of working people. If you have tried all these methods and still can't get rid of the bugs completely, then you should hurry to the hospital again. Bugs can definitely be removed, and you don't have to be too discouraged, which at least shows that someone loves your intestines to the point of desisting.

Excerpt from the book "Careful Thoughts of the Intestines".