Tapeworms

Tapeworms are from the phylum Platyhelminthes and tapeworms are parasitic flatworms from the class Cestoda. These tapeworms from the class Cestoda generally live in the digestive tract of vertebrates as adults and they are often in the bodies of many different animals as juveniles. The tapeworm has a long, flat body made up of a head, a neck, and a chain of segments, or sections. A chain can be made up of 3 to more than 4,000 segments and range in length from less than one inch to more than 75 feet. Tapeworms have no digestive system. They absorb food through their body walls directly from the host's intestine. Symptoms of tapeworm infections are not easy to detect. Because of this, infections are often not detected at all. Most of the time there no symptoms. Sometimes there is abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, and more, but not quite often. To get rid of tapeworms, you can kill them using drugs that don't harm the host.

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