Allie Christine on Instagram: "This is why I don’t play about parasites. That red, winding track under his skin? That’s not “just a rash.” That’s a hookworm migrating through tissue. They enter through bare feet. Sandboxes. Yards. Beaches. Dirt. Pets. You don’t have to travel overseas. You just have to be alive and outside. Hookworms attach, feed on blood, and can contribute to: • Iron deficiency • Fatigue and irritability • Eczema and skin flares • Poor appetite • Immune stress • Gut inflammati

Hookworm infected foot closeup of a barefooted young male showing the red irritated skin where the larvae parasite has been crawling inside of the skin causing itches and pain.

Hookworm: Introduction, Morphology, life cycle, mode of infection