How to do Fecal Exams

[Paul Rust]

This totally went below my radar. Very nice. I will put links in the menus.

Thanks John, I thought you saw it a long time ago.

[Mihajlooo]

Could you put some pictures of parasites or worms?

[Paul Rust]

Could you put some pictures of parasites or worms?

I don't have a camera on my microscope and I won't steal other peoples pictures. The book I mentioned in the article has a lot of good photos.

[Kurt]

You can ask to use people's photos. As long as you have their permission and give them credit for the photos, its not stealing.

[Paul Rust]

You can ask to use people's photos. As long as you have their permission and give them credit for the photos, its not stealing.

Roger that, I will look for some and update the article. thanks Kurt.

[Kurt]

You're welcome.

[charlamanda]

I am actually pretty excited to try this! Sad really, but getting the equiptment will have it's benefits long term, especially since I have so many frogs and other animals. Thanks again for the heads up on this article and it's easy and informative contents. Bravo Paul!!!

[Paul Rust]

You can ask to use people's photos. As long as you have their permission and give them credit for the photos, its not stealing.

Could you put some pictures of parasites or worms?

Here you go guys, I installed a digital imaging sight on my microscope and added a section on identification to the article. Enjoy!

[John]

You know, I just read through this again and I have to say it's a fabulous article. Paul really did a superb job, and we get a lot of referrals from other sites because of this great piece.

[lfishel]

Thank you, and an observation/miror correction...

Forgive me if this has already beem pointed out, but I wasn't up to reading all the other replies at 7:30 AM (late night, not early morning)...

Thanks for this info. I hadn't done a float in years and did a web search to see what I might have forgotten. This was the first result that popped up. It may explain why my floats were sometimes ineffective. I had no idea that the density of parasite ehgs was so high. I'd just been using room-temperatire water with table salt and assuming I was going way over what I needed. The epsom salt seems like a good idea. My floats were positive often enough that I assumed my method was "right".

However...you SEEM to be saying that the density of epsome salt is 1.29. This didn't seem likely. According to wikipedia it's actually 2.66, which would put your finished solution at right about 1.3... Yes, I know wikipedia is not infallible, but it's much better than it used to be, and they usually get corrected on anything that is factually incorrect, petty quickly. I usually prefer to be corrected on any factual mistakes, and I read you as beimg the same.

The good news is thatthe minor error in the text doesn't keep the procedure from working just as well...