The other student who had gotten CLM had to crush her pills with vaseline to make her own paste (literature suggests 10-15% for thiabendazole, which is supposed to be the most effective). Still, I trusted in the $12 paste and will be faithfully applying it at least once a day with the following murderous sentiment in my head: Die, ************, die.įor your reference: topical applications are best because there are adverse affects associated with taking high enough doses of the medications orally. I had to search through a few pharmacies before I found a white paste labeled with “LARVA MIGRANS,” with no ingredients listed. Thanks again to Google, I found some of the active ingredients that were most likely to kill the larva (thiabendazole, ivermectin, albendazole, taken orally or topically). Saay saay laa/ Je suis un joker/I am such a joker. When I read that the most harmful consequence was secondary infection from scratching the itch, and that the larva would go away on its own in a few months, I laid back with a sigh of relief and thought of how fun it would be, if s/he lived long enough, to bring my new African friend along with me across Europe. The raised line was fortunately not its body, but instead the irritated tissue left from the larva’s 2-4mm/day search. If my diagnosis was correct, an animal-host hookworm larva was burrowing around in my dermal layers trying to, but unable to, penetrate my basement membrane. After hours of searching “sand worm,” “worm under skin,” “worm in foot,” “worm under skin on foot,” “worm foot treatment,” etc., I narrowed down my symptoms to the least-scary condition: Cutaneous Larva Migrans (CLM). Do you see that wavy line that’s slightly raised? It’s more visible (more spread out) in real life, and it’s not a vein.
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