A doctor may advise the person to take a laxative to help the tapeworm come out in their stool. If the person has a pork tapeworm infection, their doctor may prescribe them an antiemetic ...

A tapeworm infection is usually diagnosed by finding eggs or tapeworm segments in the stool. Your doctor may ask you to bring in a sample so a lab can look for eggs, larvae, or tapeworm segments.

If you suspect you have tapeworms, see your doctor. Diagnosing a tapeworm infection may require a stool sample to identify the type of worm. The type and length of treatment may depend on the type ...

He didn't have diarrhea, changes in stool color, or fever. Using an endoscope, physicians discovered a tapeworm almost completely blocking the pylorus ring—the part of the digestive system ...

Remnants of foods and pill casings passing to the stool are typically not a cause for concern. However, parasitic infections can lead to complications. It is unusual for a person with a tapeworm ...

Tapeworms are most often discovered when people notice eggs or segments of the tapeworm in stool. A fish tapeworm infection occurs when a person eats undercooked or raw fish that’s contaminated ...

spilling eggs into the host organism’s stool. To hatch, the eggs must be swallowed by a second host, either a person or one of the pigs for which the pork tapeworm is named. In the gut of a new ...

The horse world has been aware of drug resistance to intestinal parasites for decades, but it has been primarily relegated to three types: ascarids, pinworms, and small strongyles. The Horse ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly ...

Echinococcus multilocularis, also known as the fox tapeworm, mostly lives in wild ... or coyotes, or their stool, or household dogs and cats that have the opportunity to eat wild rodents infected ...

They then shed tapeworm eggs in their stool and contaminate food or surfaces by not washing their hands. As a result, they or those around them who eat that food or touch those surfaces can ...