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A TikTok user is sharing her harrowing experience after eating pre-packaged salad.
User @jquelly, a Montana woman named Jacqui, took to the social media platform to tell an incredibly scary story about getting parasitic worms from eating bagged salad. Yikes!
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In two videos posted to her page, Jacqui said that after a few weeks of eating "prepackaged salads," for lunch at work she started getting "really sick."
We'll save you the gory details, but Jacqui went on to reveal that she realized she had roundworms after using the bathroom one day.
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It turns out the type of ringworm Jacqui experienced are common in soil in warmer climates and that they can be ingested via foods grown in that soil if not properly washed.
"The main infection for the human occurs through ingesting contaminated soil with eggs, the so-called fecal oral route," James J. Lee, MD, gastroenterologist at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Seattle, told Health.com.
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As Jacqui explained in her video, the purpose of her decision to share her story is not to scare people away from eating lettuce--but rather to pay attention to your body and always wash produce, even if it says it's "pre-washed." Now we won't forget!
