This had to suck...

[fourflys]

All I can about this is WOW...

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/05/news/ben-days-unwanted-passenger_114040

[that guy]

Well, I won't be having dinner tonight :(

[happycampyer]

Well, I won't be having dinner tonight :(If you do, make sure it's well cooked.

[Climb01742]

don't think he'll be watching "alien" any time soon.

[dvs cycles]

“I had a dangler,” :eek:

[dimsy]

delicious.

[thwart]

Pretty common stuff in a lot of places around the world.

Count your blessings...

[learlove]

Day’s ambitions for Gila changed, however, last Saturday after he extracted a four-foot tapeworm from his anus while on the toilet

what a way to make velonews, guess he won't be saving that issue.

[ThasFACE]

Dude. Dude.

[brians647]

Holy crap.

[wooly]

delicious.


LOL

[Louis]

I bet you he didn't have any problems with allergies !!!

PubMed Link (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15771681)

Parasite Immunology 2004 Nov-Dec;26(11-12):455-67.

Intestinal worms and human allergy.
Cooper PJ.

Laboratorio de Investigaciones, Hospital Pedro Vicente Maldonado, Pichincha Province, Ecuador. pcooper@ecnet.ec

Abstract

The immunoepidemiological interactions between intestinal worm (or geohelminth) infections and allergy are of great interest to parasitologists, immunologists, and allergists because of the close similarities between the human immune response to geohelminth parasites and environmental allergens. Allergic diseases appear to be most rare in populations living in the rural tropics with high rates of infection with geohelminth parasites, and this has led to suggestions that the relationship between geohelminth infections and allergy may be causal. Allergic sensitization and disease results from a complex interaction between environmental exposures and genetic background, and the numerous epidemiological studies that have investigated the relationship between allergy and geohelminth infections have provided conflicting findings. The strongest epidemiological evidence for a causal association is provided by intervention studies that demonstrate evidence for an effect of anthelmintic treatment on atopy or asthma risk. There is evidence also for an inverse relationship between geohelminth infection and either atopy or asthma symptoms from cross-sectional studies that have been conducted in areas of high infection prevalence. Chronic geohelminth infections could affect allergy risk by modulation of the immune response to environmental allergens, and an area of great research activity at present is the investigation of the role of regulatory T cells in modulating host inflammatory responses. However, a causal association between geohelminth infections and allergy remains to be proven, and prospective and intervention studies are required that investigate the development of allergy in early life at a time when humans are first exposed to geohelminth parasites and their antigens.

PMID: 15771681 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

[Wilkinson4]

They need to start testing for that as it could create a competitive advantage:

http://www.museumofquackery.com/giftshop/images/tapeworms.jpg

mIKE

[Moontrane]

nm

[William]

Four feet long???

"Extracted" it himself????

Went out for a training ride after?????

Didn't call his Doc until a day or two later??????

:confused: :crap:

Four feet long???




William???????

[BumbleBeeDave]

. . . FG!!! :eek:

BBD

[oldfatslow]

William, I'm with you. If I pull a four foot long anything out of my a## I'm headed to the doctor. Wow.

[Wilkinson4]

Fignon passed a little buddy during the Tour. Danielson had a hitchhiker too. I can't imagine.

mIKE

[William]

William, I'm with you. If I pull a four foot long anything out of my a## I'm headed to the doctor. Wow.

Exactly. I would have raced straight from the pot to the ER or Immediate Care, walked right in and jumped up on the nurses desk dropping trou and pointing to my arse yelling "*** WAS THAT!!!!"

Wow indeed.



William

[false_Aest]

That's why they're pros and we're schmoes.

[fourflys]

this must be how these guys stay so skinny... ;)

[dogdriver]

I think I just puked a little bit.

[54ny77]

umm, burp.... :eek:

[William]

That's why they're pros and we're schmoes.


Tape worms....the new PED. :rolleyes: Or is that PEP?



William

[happycampyer]

Maybe he figured he just accidentally swallowed a shoelace?

[BumbleBeeDave]

. . . could anyone have this happen, have ANY kind of access to medical care, and NOT head straight for the ER? I guess I just don't understand the hard core racing mentality. Or else this guy is just not the brightest bulb in the box. I just can't think of any possible kind of bike race that could be important enough for me to go through something like this and NOT freak out and go straight to the hospital! :eek:

BBD

[Marcy]

Did a couple years in the Peace Corps in West Africa -- after a while the gross factor fades and you just get interested. Whenever someone caught something cool everyone would gather round and say "show me what ya got!"

I got amoebas, a bunch of mosquito borne viruses, and a weird eye thing.

One of my crazy classmates got cerebral malaria. He didn't want to bother with the treatment since he was preparing to leave on vacation. Peace Corps med said "sign this". What is it? he asked. Release of liability, they said -- for when you die because you refused treatment.

He stayed and got treated.

-- Marc

[Elefantino]

Talk about a bad day.

:butt:

[rustychisel]

they don't eat much. Tapeworm got a bum rap.

[skijoring]

Bikesnob is going to have a field day.

[William]

If he would have read this he would have known exactly what to do....

http://fray.com/drugs/worm/


Though this guy snuffed his first. "When in Belgium"...you know... :rolleyes:






William