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Anguillula worms

Those are tiny Nematodes causing occasionally serious disease.

Being rare, those diseases are little known.

When overwhelming, pulmonary emboli can kill, but on many occasions the result is just pulmonary arterial hypertension.

As invasion of blood vessels is the hallmark, also Milroy’s disease and lipedema of lower extremity is probably one end-result of low-grade infestation.

Usually, intestinal mucosa is a sufficient barrier to prevent wall transgression, but life of modern humans is everything than exemplary for good health.

Hence, Gluten and Lectins in big amounts provide ready vessel access.

Similar can be said for raw or poorly cooked meat, especially from animals fed with cereals.

Pork and poultry are thus classical examples: – Raw ham and salami for instance.

Beef cooked rare or raw is not better.

Those Nematodes are tiny but readily seen on modern ultrasound in the intestinal lumen and vessels as well.

Generally, Anguillula worms do not exceed 0.2-1mm in length, but some species can reach 5-10mm.

Here should be mentioned that most domestic and farm animals do not feed on crawling animals and insects rich with such parasites, but chickens and swine do not neglect such sources of proteins.

As with Pinworms stool parasitology is frequently disappointing and misleading (when negative).