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Actually, HOOKworms are transmitted to people when kids run around barefoot and step where an infected dog has defecated. The larva burrow under the skin and cause itchy tracts; it's called cutaneous larva migrans in people. Roundworms can also cause problems, but usually when kids play in dirt or sand where dogs or cats have been; those migrate internally and it's called visceral larva migrans. Both can be treated, although the latter has the potential for severe damage.

I remember getting "worm medicine" when I was a kid and it was to date the worst thing I ever had to swallow. I imagine it was for pinworms, which is strictly a human parasite.

Karen

> Just to clear something up so more people aren't barefootaphobic!
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> Ringworm is NOT worms. It's a fungus. If you get it on your feet, that's
> athlete's foot. You can get it from skin to skin contact with infected
> people or animals. From contact of a surface infected by same or very
> rarely, from the dirt. It's really not a big deal when you get it and can be
> cleared up quite easily nowadays.
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> Mary B
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> I wonder if some people are confusing ringworm with pin worms, which are
> real worms. They are transmitted via the fecal-oral route, and may be
> contracted by contact with feces.
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> Marjorie
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Susan Gallien

So we have a couple of legitimate reason for some of the barefootphobic
attitude of many people, but why don't we make people wear gloves all
the time? There are so many more risks from bare hands than from bare
feet, yet we [as a society] feel it is perfectly fine for children to
touch door knobs etc after other people, to go into the doctor's waiting
room and breath the air that sick people are exhaling into, then go into
the doctor's office and sit on the same seats that some sick person was
just on... and the smaller the child the more likely they will actually
touch the seat with their hands... then the hands rub the nose of go
into the mouth and there we have instant infection... yet we don't have
to wear gloves, masks and completely cover our germy bodies even in this
situation and then we panic because a child in the playground removes
his/her shoes... weird.

Sue

kbmatlock@... wrote:

>Actually, HOOKworms are transmitted to people when kids run around barefoot and step where an infected dog has defecated. The larva burrow under the skin and cause itchy tracts; it's called cutaneous larva migrans in people. Roundworms can also cause problems, but usually when kids play in dirt or sand where dogs or cats have been; those migrate internally and it's called visceral larva migrans. Both can be treated, although the latter has the potential for severe damage.
>
>I remember getting "worm medicine" when I was a kid and it was to date the worst thing I ever had to swallow. I imagine it was for pinworms, which is strictly a human parasite.
>
>Karen
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>>Just to clear something up so more people aren't barefootaphobic!
>>
>>Ringworm is NOT worms. It's a fungus. If you get it on your feet, that's
>>athlete's foot. You can get it from skin to skin contact with infected
>>people or animals. From contact of a surface infected by same or very
>>rarely, from the dirt. It's really not a big deal when you get it and can be
>>cleared up quite easily nowadays.
>>
>>
>>Mary B
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>>I wonder if some people are confusing ringworm with pin worms, which are
>>real worms. They are transmitted via the fecal-oral route, and may be
>>contracted by contact with feces.
>>
>>Marjorie
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In a message dated 5/8/04 6:41:26 AM, kbmatlock@... writes:

<< Actually, HOOKworms are transmitted to people when kids run around
barefoot and step where an infected dog has defecated. >>

I thought it had to be pig doo-doo, not dog.
Could be wrong. I've never known anyone who had it, and I don't live where
many pigs live. Horses and cows and dogs, but we were told just stay out of
pig shit.

Maybe we just lucked out.

Sandra