Rollo Kim Reporting

Rollo Kim, InvestigaSituationistal Journalist

Monday, June 18, 2001

Rollo Kim's Pin Worm Circus

You basatradard

They're gonna find that note sooner or later and when that happens we can sit back and boom, boom.

Man with eyes approaches youth 'wantoooobuyaaaarwaatch' in sloooooowwwwwwwmmooootttitonn his eyes, though, am just awe - full.

Youth smiles, and when her head has gone back far enough the maaaannnnn shines a bright light down the front of her T-shirt. Just for a second.

I still picture the boys face...

"How are you Roland?" She asked me,
then I turned to face her, and she could see the gaping wound on the far side of my forehead,
"huhaauuhhauuuhauuuu." I said, smiling, gapped-toothed, bruised. My hair has turned red overnight.

Stuntereed quasi-poetry of maaan.

Roll[o].



Pin Worm

itchy bum - or is it Pin Worms?!?!

The Disease
The disease is mild unless large numbers of worms are present. It causes a disease called Enterobiasis. It is one of those embarrassing irritations causing intense itching around the perianal area as the adult worms leave the bowel and migrate on to the skin to lay their eggs. The eggs are very resistant to dehydration and can easily be dispersed in the air. Infections are most common in children. It is especially common in the autumn when they return to school, and in institutionalized populations. Since the eggs almost immediate infective and they have the ability to stick to things like clothing, bedding, and toys make it difficult to control. The chlorine levels used in swimming and wading pools is not sufficient to kill the eggs.

Digestion
They feed on wastes and bacteria in the cecum and appendix of the large intestine. They take food in though their mouth into their bodies.

Excretion
The solid wastes goes through the anus, and the liquid wastes goes through the excretory pore.

Nervous system
They have a ganglion at the anterior end.

Reproduction
Once worm eggs are swallowed they develop into adult worms in the intestinal tract. The female worms then lay thousands of very tiny eggs around the anus of the infected person, usually at night. The presence of the worms on the skin around the anus results in severe rectal or occasionally a vaginal itch. This itch, in turn, can cause nervousness and irritability during the day, restlessness and difficulty sleeping during the night, and often causes the person to scratch and get new eggs on the hands and under the fingernails. Any objects then touched by the infected person can become contaminated. If you think your child has pinworms, call the doctor's office and the problem will be evaluated.

Circulation
It has an opened circulatory system

Respiration
They obtain oxygen though diffusion

Locomotion
They move in a thrashing or whipping motion

Tissue organization
 It has 3 germ layers with a pseudocoelom

Symmetry
Bilateral symmetry

 Alternative names:
seatworm; enterobiasis Enterobius vermicularis; oxyuriasis; threadworm; pinworm infection