Last Friday my bum felt a bit itchy. By evening it was excruciating. Saturday was on / off itchy. That evening much better, Sunday fine. But around 5pm something made me check my poo and fuck me a tiny wriggling white threadworm. To say I freaked out is an understatement. I didn't know anything about them. Three days later and I'm an expert.
Or am I? I've read so much online but so much is contradictory and it's driving me insane.
The whole family (me, husband, three children) took Ovex on Sunday evening. Have checked a million poos since then and very little but then I found one wriggling in my poo last night (48h post Ovex). Still, nobody else seemed to be involved - no symptoms, no worms. And then tonight I found one wriggling in my two year old's poo (72h post Ovex). I am so upset as I really hoped it was just me.
They should all be dead now right? The pack says the tablets work in a 'few' days. But I've also read that they can take up to two weeks to kill them all. I've also read they are resistant to Ovex and it doesn't work. This is just one grey area of ambiguity that seems to surround the little white fuckers.
I've read that reinfection from eggs hatching in the anus is rare but also that it's very common.
I've read Ovex kills 95-100% of worms in the gut but what about those lower down or (god forbid) in the vagina? 😖 Does it kill them too?
I've read the females only lay eggs at night so to wash every morning but I've also read that I need to wash every three hours throughout the day too as the eggs hatch within 4-6 hours - but why do that if they only lay at night?
They live in the gut so why - apart from egg laying - are they in my bum? Do they go back and forth?
If they die after laying eggs, why are there ever live ones in poo?
I read the female lifecycle is 6 weeks but also that it's 13 weeks.
I read eggs can live for 3 weeks but also that they can only survive 1-2 days if they're lucky.
What happens to the worms after taking Ovex? Do they disintegrate? Come out in poos?
I've not been itchy since taking Ovex but last night it felt like my knickers were caught up my bum - WTF?!
Why can't we all just pop an Ovex a week to keep on top of worms? If we're killing the whole lot off each time then they can't 'evolve' resistance surely?
We are following a strict hygiene routine but if 1 in 3 people have them at any one time and if a microbiologist has claimed that testing a patch of any wall will find viable threadworm eggs 😵 AIBU to wonder how come the whole human race haven't all got the bastard things? What hope have my family got of ever ridding ourselves of them? Am going out of my mind even though I know they are only tiny bits of cottony things. I just don't know how we can ever break the cycle no matter how hard we try.
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MagicalMrsMistoffelees · 29/03/2017 21:25
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