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Parental Myths #7: Raw Dough and Worms
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 8:30AM
Parental Myth #7: Eating Raw Dough Will Give You Worms
This one is fairly straight forward. We know that the raw eggs in dough can cause salmonella (yes a nasty sickness, vile indeed). But, the raw cookie dough will not inoculate you with intestinal parasites, nor saturate you with squirmy worms. If you want my personal opinion, this myth was started by a frustrated mother. While trying to get children to leave her alone in the kitchen, she finally had enough. Rather than lose her cool with these little ones she probably blurted out something like, "I told you to keep your fingers out of the cookie dough. If you eat that stuff before it's cooked, it will give you worms." And thus, the genesis of yet another parental myth. E'nuf said
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Quietly making noise,
Fletch
This one is fairly straight forward. We know that the raw eggs in dough can cause salmonella (yes a nasty sickness, vile indeed). But, the raw cookie dough will not inoculate you with intestinal parasites, nor saturate you with squirmy worms. If you want my personal opinion, this myth was started by a frustrated mother. While trying to get children to leave her alone in the kitchen, she finally had enough. Rather than lose her cool with these little ones she probably blurted out something like, "I told you to keep your fingers out of the cookie dough. If you eat that stuff before it's cooked, it will give you worms." And thus, the genesis of yet another parental myth. E'nuf said
Click here to read the other parental myths exposed!
Quietly making noise,
Fletch
Reader Comments (2)
i just ate some cookie dough (store bought) and i am worrying my head off about getting worms! i keep thinking 'what if the men at the factory who make this cookie dough mix use their hands that are infected with worms?!'
but reading this is kind of relieving.
Lillie...
Hate to bum you out...no parasites in the dough...but I'd be worried about http://www.themangotimes.com/?p=570" rel="nofollow">the hand-washing workers
Fletch