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Ed in minnesota. This one more picture should convince you. I don't need to be an expert to know this is a parasitic worm colony species and that diphenhydramine and praziquintal work wonders to purge parasites. It would be nice to know what they are but it's satisfying enough to know that they're o...

Thank you, Tenshi and N. Germany! I'll look at treatments for acanthocephala. And yes, the horrors within can be just as awful as any. A horror is a horror yet by any name it's still.... Now I must drive the thorny things out...by any anthelmintic necessary.

Well, 🙄 except for the nebula the unknowns are helminths that came out of me. 😬 The thing that is shaped like a gun came out of my nose when I blew my nose one day. It just looked like a speck of blood in mucous is but I decided to put it under the microscope camera anyway. Turned out to be a micros...

Does anyone recognize these things? Picture taken with an amateur microscope camera. May be around 1/8th inch. Terribly difficult to find matches on internet. Grow to some 2 to 3 inches long plus. Apparently I'm hosting a wild kingdom of...things. Oddly terrifying enough, I can find a macroscopic ma...