why do tapeworm not need a digestive sytem?
150711
they use yours, they are in your intestines and the food they eat is already broken down.
1054426
"Cecum: an appendige at the end of the large intestine with no apparent function."\n"The cecum or caecum is a pouch connected to the large intestine and the ileum. It is separated from the ileum by the ileocecal valve (ICV) or Bauhin's valve, and is considered to be the beginning of the large intestine and part of the colon.\n\nThe cecum is present in mammals, birds, and some reptiles. Most herbivores have a relatively large cecum, and exclusive carnivores have a smaller cecum or none at all. This size difference results from the large number of bacteria in the cecum of herbivores, which aid in the enzymatic breakdown of plant materials such as cellulose. Carnivores, whose diets contain little or no plant material, have a reduced cecum, often partially or wholly replaced by the vermiform appendix.\n\nThe appendix is a branch of the cecum. Like the human appendix, the cecum (from the Latin caecus meaning blind) was once believed to have no function. Unlike the appendix, however, there is no current debate about the use of the cecum."\n\nok so the cecum catch's the returns of the small intestine, breaks downs the cellulose in its pouch like area full of bacteria and sends it on down river.
626535
It is part of the cycle of life.  Fleas and flies end up as food for other creatures.  Flies also help eliminate decaying flesh which helps stop the spread of many diseases.  Nothing goes to waste in their world.
113900
What we call the appendix in humans is called the gut caecum in other mammals.\n\nMammals can’t digest cellulose, what we commonly call plant fibre. As a result they can’t get any energy out of eating grass or leaves. But, I hear you say, plenty of mammals eat grass and leaves. But they don’t really. They just SWALLOW the grass and leaves.  Microbes in the animal’s gut cause the leaves to rot and the mammals then digest the microbes. So in a very real way horses and cows eat microbes, they just swallow grass.\n\nThe longer plant material sits in the gut the more time the microbes have to make it rot and the more energy the animal can get. For animals that eat a diet high in fibrous plant material the gut caecum serves as a holding tank for the food material while  have a chance to make it rot.\n\nThe appendix in gorillas for example is quite huge, about 2 feet long IIRC. Compared to just a couple of inches in humans That’s because gorillas live on a diet extremely high in plant fibre, and we don’t. Rabbits and horses also have huge appendices.
792913
Yes I would go to the doctor and get something for them. It's just worms. Poor you!
624355
there are a lot of creatures living in or on the human body, some are useful (helping the digestion) some are harmful (causing diseases) or other annoying ones: itchy mites, ticks, worms, fungi, lice, parasites, bacterias, fleas and others.
1004613
Because they don't eat much besides milk. The yellow is the color of the acid that digests the milk.\n\nonce they start eating, as in eating REAL food, they start having normal colored 'poop" or feces..
58130
Yes!\n\nThe stomach breaks down food, but it is the intestines that actually absorb the nutrients. If you ate things that did not need to be digested, you would still be able to absorb the nutrients just fine. Sure it would be a boring monotonous liquid diet.. but you could live!
223464
The tonsils are actually needed for immunological reasons which was discovered recently but you actually need everything in your body but if say your spleen/appendix was damaged you will not die without it. Wisdom teeth are probably the one thing that we do not need.
909045
Because it takes a ton of energy for your body to process allof the junk, and also the junk is harder to move through the digestive tract because less is absorbed.
769052
Only one - they are hind gut fermenters like species such as horses and rabbits, as opposed to ruminants which have different chambers of the stomach opening and ferment their food there.  They do have a large caecum (closest human equivilant would probably be the appendix, I believe) to help them do this.
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Stomach is not digested due to 2 reasons\n1.Protein digesting enzyme which can digest stomach is in inactive state when released from stomach walls & after geting into stomach it is activated so can not harm stomach.\n2.A protective coating of mucin is present inside stomach wall which is ejected from gastric glands which are present in stomach wall.Mucin is part of gastric juice.
1151533
Hi, \n\n  Its possible. They live in your intestine and use the nutrition that you eat to live. They can cause the symptoms that you described. She did give you the right medicine to treat you. Worms are more of an occurrence that happen to small children that play outside in the dirt and put their hands in their mouth before washing them. I think you'll be fine.
534748
It can give you the poos, but it won't give you worms.
6746
A couple of things, actually.  Digestion starts from the moment you start to chew up your food as certain enzymes begin to break down the proteins.  The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is protected from them to a large degree by mucus which lines the intestines and stomach.  The mucus also protects the stomach from the acid which is kept in the stomach.  \n\nSo that stuff which drives you nuts when you have a runny nose does really have something useful to do!
1147533
you'll know if you have a tapeworm if you keep eating and notice that it's not making you full, you aren't gaining weight, or you are losing weight...these symptoms are also reflective of other digestive diseases, however they are still common with a tapeworm.  \n\nParasitic infections usually affect your appetite and cause you to lose weight dramatically.  you are also extremely sensitive to the types of food your stomach can handle.
910778
no. you only get intestinal worms if you've eaten food that has worm eggs or like dirt where worm eggs are mostly found which is why its so common in children.