Horsehair worms mayВ be found inside homes in toilets causing people to beВ concerned that it is aВ human parasite. From what I have read, thin stools could be a symptom of colon cancer.

They are especially noticeable after a rainfall.

Horsehair worms are often seen in puddles and other pools of fresh water, swimming pools, water tanks andВ on plants.

When the horsehair worm is mature and near water or damp soil, it emerges from its host.

When they infect their host, horsehair worms store up fats and food reserves.

It is not clear how immature horsehair worms infect hosts.Thin stools can also occur with anal cancer, but itвЂ™s less common. They can attack a wide variety of insects and related animals: grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches, beetles, and katydids, as well as dragonflies, caddisflies, millipedes, centipedes, spiders, crustaceans, leeches, snails, slugs and other invertebrates. Pencil thin stools are a persistent symptom of colon cancer and are accompanied by weight loss and rectal bleeding.Once they hatch, immature horsehair worms try to infect a host.Eggs are laid in a long, gelatinous string in fresh water.It is common to see a number of worms to be intertwined, forming a loose ball during mating. The small intestine is the long, thin segment of bowel that begins at the stomach and ends at the large intestine or colon.

So when something's very clearly offlike if your poop is pencil-thin and kinda stringy-lookingit's. Males coil around females in pools of fresh water or damp soil. Most of the time, whatever's in the toilet looks pretty standard: brown and log-like, TBH.Horsehair worms mate during spring, early summer or fall.

Pencil thin stool pictures