A Thai man was horrified after pulling a giant 10 metre long (32ft) tapeworm from his backside while using the toilet.<br /><br />Kritsada Ratprachoom, 44, from Udon Thani in north eastern Thailand, was stunned when he felt something "sticking out of his bottom" and wriggling when he was using the bathroom.<br /><br />At first the freelance photographer thought it was a piece of string leftover from the surgery he had had to have his appendix removed a week earlier.<br /><br />However, he soon realised it was more than he'd bargained for - and the sticky and stretchy object was in fact a live tapeworm.<br /><br />He said: "I had just finished dropping my child off at school and ran some errands when I had to go for a number two.<br /><br />"Afterwards, I felt like I wasn't finished defecating, like something was left. So I got up to see what it was.<br /><br />"Turns out there was something sticking out of my bottom."<br /><br />Kritsada began pulling on the worm and said he felt like it could have been stretched for up to 32ft.<br /><br />After pulling it out of his behind, the baffled man put the worm down on the toilet cistern and it began slithering around.<br /><br />Perplexed with what to do, Kritsada proceeded to flush the worm down the toilet.<br /><br />He is clueless as to how the worm could have got inside of him in the first place.<br /><br />Tapeworms are flat, ribbon-like worms that can live in your gut if you swallow their eggs or small, newly hatched worms.<br /><br />Tapeworm infections are rare in the UK, but are fairly common in other parts of the world.<br /><br />Many don't cause obvious symptoms and can be easily treated.<br /><br />But very occasionally, the worms can spread to other parts of the body and cause serious problems.<br /><br />Tapeworms can grow up to 55ft long and can survive in the intestine as long as 25 years.
