While visiting some friends during school break, I learned that one can contract pin worms by biting one's nails. Yes, I do bite my nails. Not out of nervousness but because I do not like to trim them. And I despise filing them. And so my teeth serve as excellent substitutes in place of the standard little metal clippers. This is nothing recent on my part; i think i began eating my nails the day my mom stopped clipping them for me.
Well, turns out one should not continue the beloved practice of nail biting in Mongolia, especially if one's nails are almost always incredibly dirty and coal-filled. Turns out that there are these little parasitic roundworms that live in the dirt/soil of Mongolia. Turns out my coal is dumped into a pile in that very same roundworm-infested dirt. Turns out my fingers most often are coal/dirt stained. Turns out my fingernails are even dirtier (if it is possible) than my fingers. Turns out that biting one's dirty fingernails can cause pin worms to move into one's large intestine and cecum. Turns out the pinworms like to come out to play at night and this "playing" manifests itself in one's butt itching. Turns out MY butt has been awfully itchy. Turns out one can find out if one has pinworms by doing the "scotch/duct tape test." Turns out i am too afraid to actually do that test so i just took the medicine....That had little worms all over the cover of it.
oh yanaa.
1 comment:
oh honey. your mother had a similar experience at the ripe old age of about 5. i'll come trim your nails.
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