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  • Severe anal itching especially at night, restlessness, and difficlty sleeping may indicate pinworms.
  • Itching on the soles of yor feet sggests hookworms; in some cases this may be accompanied by a rash, coghing bloody sptm, and fever, followed by loss of appetite, diarrhea, palpitations, anemia, and fatige.
  • Nasea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, dizziness, changes in appetite, and fatige indicate a large tapeworm-probably originating in beef, pork, or fish.
  • Loss of appetite and weight, irritability, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and vomiting are symptoms of small tapeworms-originating in a rodent or dog.
  • Diarrhea and cramping that last p to a week, followed by fever, mscle pain, conjnctivitis, and facial swelling arond the eyes are signs of trichinosis.
  • Wheezing, coghing, or other breathing difficlties, followed by vomiting, stomach pain, and bloating, sggest ascariasis.
  • Small red lesions that may itch-followed by coghing, wheezing, or bronchitis; diarrhea; abdominal pain; and flatlence - are signs of threaslworms.

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