How leech scared you? Or you don't scare of leech?

@lkbooi (16070)
Malaysia
March 5, 2007 9:03am CST
I'm really scared of this small blood-sucking worm. Once I explored a jungle with my friends, on the way suddenly I found 7 to 8 leeches moving on both of my shoes. I became panic,jumping and screaming wildly. Luckily one of my friends rushed to me and managed to get rid of these small awful worms from my shoes. I would like to share your experience.
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angel106307
@angel106307 (372)
• Canada
5 Mar 07
I had some leaches on me when I was 7 years old when I went to a week camp. They used salt to get them off. That really works well.. As for how I feel about them.......EEEEWWWWWWWWWW! YUCK!
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lkbooi
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
5 Mar 07
Yeah salt is an effective stimulus to most worms. Thanks for your response:)
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angel106307
@angel106307 (372)
• Canada
9 Mar 07
I believe I was told that salt dries them out and so they repel themselves from it. At least that was what I was told. But that could be an old wives tale. They are still icky though.
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lkbooi
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
10 Mar 07
Common salt contains some impurities, chlorides of magnesium and calcium, which are deliquescent and act as drying agents. The salt itself, in crystals, could also absorb water from the leeches, I believe.
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seamonkey
@seamonkey (1976)
• Ireland
8 Mar 07
I would be very scared of leeches! Luckily we don't have them around here, but I'll never forget the scene in Stand By Me when they got leeches in their underwear! Awful!
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lkbooi
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
6 Oct 07
Yup, leeches could most probably find in tropical rain forest countries so it is quite common in my place. I could imagine how awful that leeches crawling in the underwear which you had seen in Stand By Me.
cheongyc
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
6 Mar 07
I do not afraid these small little blood-sucking creature, in small quantity :) But if they come in large amount, i will definitely run away as fast as i can. Besides, there one kind of leech as big as banana, and that is quite scarry for me. I had captured one of it once, and keep it in a glass bottle, hoping it could predict the weather (like what was said in books) but it stay still for days. Finally, i gave up and release it into the drain in front of my house.
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lkbooi
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
6 Oct 07
Hi friend, you better don’t scare me. Even a little blood sucking creature can make me scare and panic and what more the one as big as a banana. How horrible I could imagine if seeing large amount of leeches crawling on my shoes. Well done, having an experiment could always find out the truth. You are a good hearted guy as you released the leech into the drain but not simply threw it away.
Perry2007
@Perry2007 (2229)
• Philippines
6 Mar 07
LOL... have you gone to a rice fiels? there are lots of them there. my husband had the same experience, he startedshouting and screaming when leach crowled his boots in the rice field.
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lkbooi
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
6 Oct 07
If I am not mistaken the leeches found in the rice field looked rather bigger in sizes. So it’s normal for me to scream wildly when seeing those awful leaches crawled on my shoes as your husband did scare of leeches.
happylim
@happylim (658)
• Malaysia
6 Mar 07
Bring some salt next time you go inside the jungle. Recently the medical science discover thak leech can help to suck out the piosonous thing etc from the body of patient. Who knows one day the awful worms may become a ueseful creature to you :)!
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lkbooi
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
6 Oct 07
Ok, happylim, I will bring along with me some salt before I go for a jungle tracking. If I come across any leech I then sprinkle the salt over it. Wow, what a wonderful discovery! Those awful small creatures do help human being to cure certain illness by sucking blood at the wound.
Hazel Funcion
@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
8 Mar 07
Yikes, I hate leeches. I have not seen it on person before but the pictures are really enough for me to hate them and be afraid of them. Maybe its the way I see it on tv and movies that really sucks out blood and really stays in the body like they own it. Yuck, yuck, yuck.... Im really scared.
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lkbooi
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
6 Oct 07
Really, the way the leeches move and the habit of sucking blood always make us quite scare of them. I still remember when I was a small kid I accompanied my playmates picking the rubber seed at the rubber estates, there I first come across with the awful little blood sucking creatures. They caused me panic, screamed and jumped wildly. Since then I never accompanied them to the estate again.
vinaysingh007
@vinaysingh007 (174)
• India
5 Mar 07
when i was 7 years old my brother told me a story about how leeches killed a man.he told me they entered in the body and crawl to your brain and suck everything inside.i was very scared and never went near any river or pond.but after a horioble encounter with one of those blood sucking things i understand that they can never enter in our body and now i am fine but still little bit scare..
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lkbooi
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
6 Oct 07
Your story about how leeches killed a man really scaring. Though we know that a tiny little leech could never enter our body and kill us we still quite scare of it. To me leeches looked nasty and awful with legless bodies and with their weird movement.
Athrun_9738
@Athrun_9738 (149)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 08
I'm scared of leeches too... They look disgusting. SO as other worms.
lkbooi
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
31 Mar 08
Hi little dear Athrun, we have the common phobia, to become frightened when seeing any leeches. So I am sure you couldn’t be my superman if I were to find any leeches moving on my feet. I will scream madly if there is any on my shoes.