My DD, who is a finger chewer, wakes up in the night once every 6-8 weeks crying that her "front bottom" hurts and inevitably a threadworm has found its way in and I have to remove it so she can get back to sleep (sorry if TMI!). I dose her and the rest of the family, and again two weeks later, and do all the bed changing, teddy washing, nail cutting, damp dusting etc etc. Yet still they predictably return! I know that the statistics suggest that a large proportion of children have threadworms at any given time, but it seems that it is much more of a taboo subject than nits and not many mums I know will admit to their DCs having had them. Are we for some reason just not getting rid of them (maybe the Ovex isn't working?) or are we just doomed to get repeat infections because DD always has her fingers in her mouth? Has anyone who has been in this situation successfully got rid of them for good? Help! I am so sick of them! Any ideas?
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