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Larva migrans cutanea
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Also known as: cutaneous larva migrans · creeping eruption · hookworm larva · CLM · wandering worm under the skin · skin worm · tropical skin infection
Your Body Is Speaking
It begins with an itch. Then you see it — a reddish, raised line winding beneath your skin, as though something were crawling just under the surface. And that is exactly what it is: a hookworm larva has bored through tropical sand into your skin and wanders there, slowly, aimlessly, millimeter by millimeter. The medical name for this is Larva migrans cutanea — the creeping rash.
What tropical medicine sees: a parasite that has strayed into the wrong host. The larva actually belongs in the intestine of a dog or cat. In your skin it has no future — it wanders, it burrows, it never arrives. And this image deserves a second look. Because the question is not only why this larva wanders beneath your skin. The question is: what in you is wandering right now — without direction, without goal, without arriving?
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