2024年9月11日 · Tapeworm segments in human stool look like tiny grains of white rice that may be moving. Tapeworm may be seen in the toilet bowl or passing through the anus. Most people with tapeworm infections have mild symptoms or none at all.

2023年1月5日 · The eggs pass in the person's stool. Poor handwashing may lead to the same person or another person being exposed to the eggs. If this happens, a person can get a larval cyst infection.

2022年7月26日 · Symptoms can include nausea, weakness, diarrhea and fatigue, or you may not have symptoms. You may see eggs or worm pieces in your poop. Once you find a tapeworm, it’s easy to get rid of it. The tapeworm head attaches to the intestines of its host. The body grows in segments from the neck. What is a tapeworm?

2022年8月30日 · Tapeworm eggs are passed in stool and can then infect new hosts, animals, and humans. Learn the symptoms of this rare infection in the U.S. and how to treat it.

2024年6月13日 · For example, people with poor hygiene who have taeniasis—with or without symptoms—will shed tapeworm eggs in their feces and might accidentally contaminate their environment. This can lead to transmission of cysticercosis to themselves or others unknowingly. One way to prevent taeniasis is to cook meat to safe temperatures.

2023年1月5日 · These drugs kill the tapeworm but not the eggs. You need to wash your hands well with soap and water after using the toilet. This protects you and other people from the spread of tapeworm eggs. Your health care provider will schedule follow-up appointments. They use tests of stool samples to see if the treatment has worked.

2024年1月19日 · Pieces of adult tapeworms containing eggs break off and exit the body in stool. The eggs can live in water, soil, or on plants for months. If a person or animal consumes the contaminated...

2023年8月6日 · Signs of tapeworms may also be visible in your stool. Egg-containing tapeworm segments, known as proglottids, break away from the main parasite and travel through the digestive system. When proglottids are passed in a bowel …

2024年1月12日 · Tapeworms are intestinal parasites that are shaped similarly to a tape measure. Their eggs typically enter a human host from animals through food, particularly raw or undercooked meat. Tapeworm...

Doctors diagnose intestinal tapeworm infection by finding worm segments or eggs in a stool sample, and they diagnose cysticercosis by identifying cysts elsewhere in the body by doing imaging or blood tests.