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Tapeworms

Tapeworms are a type of flatworm. They are parasitic on both humans and animals, and live in the host's digestive system.

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How do you kill a tapeworm?

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Tapeworms are usually treated with a single dose of medicine taken by mouth. Commonly used medicines for tapeworms are praziquantel (Biltricide) and albendazole (Albenza).These medications kill the tapeworms. The dead tapeworms then dissolve or pass from your body with bowel movements. If worms are large, you may have cramping when they pass. Your doctor will recheck stool samples at one and three months after you finish treatment. When tapeworms are confined to the intestines, appropriate treatment gets rid of them in more than 95% of people.

How do you know if your dog has tape worms?

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Decreased appetite and upset stomach are some of the signs that a dog is infested with worms.

What major body system are tapeworms missing?

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immune system, digestive, exocrine, ect.

How do tapeworms get rid of body wastes?

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It gets ride of waste through the one opening (its mouth) were it also eats.

What are the similarities of a tapeworm and malaria?

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In both the diseases, fever may start with slow onset. Patients suffering from both of them complain of headache. Patients suffering from both will have mild spenomegaly at some stage of fever. ( Usually at the end of week.) Both fevers have leucopenia in peripheral smear. Fever will never rise above 104 degree Fahrenheit in typhoid fever. And patient of typhoid fever will get 'toxic' in about 7 days of fever. At 104 degree Fahrenheit temperature he will need assistance of two persons to go to toilet as against patient of malarial fever. Patient of malarial fever can walk to longer distance without assistance. The experienced doctor can tell from the face of the patient that he is suffering from typhoid fever or not.

Can tapeworm's live in a humans stomach?

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Tapeworm eggs survive very well outside the body, often for years in unfavorable conditions. Adult tapeworms, however, are very dependent upon remaining in the intestinal tract and are generally dead before they come out of the body.

What type of pathogen is a tapeworm?

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it gives it a lap dance

What are endoparasites?

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Answerorganisms that live inside another organism, deriving nutrition from the host.

Could your cat have tape worms?

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Your doctor should be able to give you a good, definitive answer. However, common sense recommendations are:

1. Make sure that you get the cat treated.

2. Ask someone else to take care of the litterbox while you are pregnant.

3. Always wash your hands after handling the cat.

Does tapeworms live in cold weather?

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Yes they live in cold water but they are inactive due to the low temperatures

Functions of tapeworms?

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Tapeworms are hardly "useful". Indeed a tapeworm infestation is a serious medical condition leading to malnutrition as the worm diverts one's food into its own tissues.

The worm hangs onto the intestinal wall by a head called a scolex, and buds off segments containing eggs, that are released in the stool.

These segments can be seen and look something like cucumber seeds. Fortunately by means of a suitable vermicide, a tapeworm infestation is easily cured.

But of course the best approach is not to become infected in the first place. The most common source is "measly beef" and poorly cooked pork, that is beef or pork that contains tapeworm cysts. Fortunately in the western world, meat production is closely supervised, and measily meat is a rarity.

Humans can also accidentally contract tapeworms from wild rats and mice, fish, and a common one is the dog tapeworm. This can be transferred by an infected dog licking one's face.

The worst is when a human acts as a secondary host to the hydatids tapeworm. This produces huge cysts in the body and even the brain, and have to be removed by major surgery.

The best way to prevent this is to have dogs regularly treated for worms, and never feed dogs sheep offal, which is the tissue most commonly favoured by the worm cysts.

In advanced agricultural countries it is a criminal offense to do so, and working dogs must be regularly treated by law, because a cyst in a human is absolutely devastating.

Do tapeworms decompose?

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Where do tapeworms live in the human body?

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Tapeworms generally live in the intestine.

How do you treat puppies with tapeworm and roundworm?

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It is best to take them to a vet. They can treat them easily and and it will be best for the pups.

Are tapeworms and ringworms the same?

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Tapeworms are a kind of flatworm. Most flatworms are not tapeworms.

What is the parasitic adaptation of tapeworm?

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Adaptations for a parasite would mean not spending energy on functions such as digesting food for instance so that they can divert their energy to growing and reproducing. They don't even have a proper digestive system, instead they absorb the already digested food through their skin.

Other than that, since they live in an environment that will be immunologically hostile to them (inside a host's intestines), they have their own defences.

When was the tapeworm discovered?

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Tapeworms were discovered in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish physician and botanist.

Where do you find tapeworms?

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Tapeworms are found in the intestines of mammals. inside a human

Do tapeworms have cell wall or no cell wall?

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Tape worms are animals.Animals do not have a cell wall.

Do all humans have tapeworms?

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No, they do not, but tapeworms ARE dangerous, but not REALLY serious. If they were, we all would feel sick in the stomach. Though we all do get occasional bellyaches, that doesn't mean you have tapeworms.

Are tapeworms black?

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No, white.