Can you have tape worms in you and not know it?
I suspect I have it. On our parents porch there was a tape worm that fell off our dog not sure where the tape worm went. Ever since then my stomache hunger has grown. I’d like to know are tape worms asexually reproductive? (meaning they don’t need a mate to reproduce?) and how microscopic these things are.
My hunger has grown so badly that my stomache hurts if I don’t eat and this is really intense hunger. Do tape worms do this to your appetite?
And the main question I’d like to know is can tape worms hatch on your skin laying eggs but not growing full size? maybe that’s a whole nother can of worms…
oh God I’m never eating meat again :S http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMSc2RZ19Us&feature=channel_page
it’s not bisexual that’s hamaphroditic
I will note that I’ve been having huge hunger for a while now and that’s a long story in and of itself before I ever saw any tape worm land on a porch..to be honest I think we have this problem because we have a good 8 mice outside huddling under some timber – ever since they came around we’ve had tape worms and scabies…
I’m ordering some of this stuff
http://naturalginesis.reachlocal.com/coupon/?scid=349413&cid=412020&tc=09091510405288294&kw=3316812&dynamic_proxy=1&primary_serv=naturalginesis.reachlocal.net
and I will tell you how good it works on the scabies in another question I’ll post if I obtain the crap 
(if it comes in the mail)
sorry I meant hermaphroditic lol
ah nevermind this question is getting out of control I’m not responding to anything else perhaps the creature is asexual (not bisexual) but enough of this!
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You can not know if you have a tape worm, other than of course needing to eat large amounts of food while also losing weight. Tape worms can be dangerous though because they can cause nutrient deficiencies. If you think you have a tape worm you should call your doctor.
i would consult a doctor. it is possible.
Go to a doctor ASAP. Those are signs.
The only way I know that tapeworms can get into your system, is if you ingest feces that has tapeworms in it, or if you drink water, or eat raw meat that is infected with tapeworms. If one got on your arm, you’d probably have to lick your arm.
Once you have a tapeworm they reproduce in your bowels and lay eggs there. I think they need water to be around water, or moist areas to stay alive. They’re pretty tiny too… until they get into your body. There they can grow to the full length of your intestines I think. You have to either kill it while it’s inside of you, or somehow get the whole thing out at one time, because if you pull part of it out, or if part of it comes out, the remaining part can still survive inside you.
You should go to the doctor at once, and get an antibody test done.
Also, I don’t think they will lay eggs if they are on your skin. They don’t always stay in your reproductive system either. They can bore holes into you and get into your blood stream (which tells you how tiny they can start off.) Then, from there they can get into a muscle or an organ and form into a fluid sac, called a cyst, where it encloses itself and stays, usually until the host dies. If another animal eats you, then that animal will now be infected with tapeworms.
They are asexual, so yes, they reproduce without a mate.
To answer your main question, yes you can have a tapeworm without knowing it.
HOWEVER – you can’t get the kind of tapeworms you are seeing on your dog. (There is a very rare type of tapeworm (Echinococcus) people can get from dogs, but it’s microscopic. Usually it lives in wild, not domestic canines.) Humans can get tapeworms from undercooked fish, beef and pork.
A single tapeworm can reproduce, but it’s actually bisexual (male and female organs in the same worm), not asexual. What you are seeing on your dog is individual segments of a tapeworm. Each segment has male and female organs and is fully capable of laying eggs. But instead of laying the eggs in the intestines like other intestinal parasites, tapeworms break off whole segments to send out through the colon as little egg-producing factories.
And tapeworms generally need to go through a two-host life cycle. That means the the eggs are eaten by one species (in the dog’s case this is fleas or rodents), and the eggs hatch and form dormant cysts. Then the host comes along and eats the first species, and the cysts re-activate and continue developing into an adult tapeworm. They can’t survive on your skin for any length of time, and they certainly can’t hatch or develop there.