AIBU to give up and let the bum worms win?

Don’t shove it up your bum!?!

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why oh why did I come back here for another sneak peak 😳

My sister and I still shudder at the thought of drinking what we called worm juice

Cos they’re little and discover by touching and tasting…bless.

This is a good thread and I too have learned much. Thank you to all. Has also got me through dreadful jet engine tinnitus bout and more disgusting back pain. Gonna try for p’ks and rest now.

Oh Jesus we haven’t had this yet!

Why are children so infectious! 🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣

In lockdown, almost no tummy bugs were reported at all due to extra hand washing. Very effective at controlling many things.

My son discovered he had worms the first day of our holiday. The timing worked well as we treated it that day and whilst away any rogue eggs at home would have died. So my advice is, if you're still infected, to take the treatment just before you have an extended period away from home in the hope that any eggs at home die before your return.

Oh gosh…and now the whole nursery will have them too!

Apart from hoovering and bed changing and wiping cupboard handles I didn’t do any extra cleaning. The fridge door handle is the highest risk handle in your house. Very Important to be aware of infection routes. So, covering mouth for coughing, then hand washing. Wearing pants in bed under pjs. Stops child reinfecting hands even if he does scratch. Do you have family pets? Make sure they are wormed/groomed. Re take medicine as soon as you itch. If one persons itching everyone must take it regardless. Iron all crotches of underwear after washing. You shouldn’t have to buy medicine, your gp will prescribe. Have a word with all their friends mums, they may be getting re infected by a third party. Tell school/nursery for same reason. Will go away eventually.

Dogs don’t carry threadworms which are human specific.
Worms are host specific.

Dogs can carry a different type of worm that can affect people , but responsible pet owners worm their pets and pick up any poo they do

Visceral larval migrans is the dangerous zoonotic worm infestation-Also a new tapeworm coming in from Europe. ( Vets can advise on worming for pets) .

It might be the dog that’s given it to you

Cats don’t carry threadworms-
It’ll be the Nursery which is a reservoir of infestation.
Parasitic worms are very host specific.

For some insane reason at nearly 2am I find myself attracted to a thread ( forgive the pun) on pinworms.😳
Ive never heard of them but this just may make me stop biting my nails OP

So Thankyou for the thread. I’ve learned something new. Sorry I have no advice other than

I think we all need to buy some of that hand sanitizer so popular during Covid

Good luck OP and as an aside check out nhs website, if you stop treating them things can get even worse.

Omg this is my biggest fear. I have never had them and nor have my children but I am petrified of getting them. I keep Ovex in the bathroom cabinet just in case.
Hideous thought.
Keep it up OP, do not give up!

Yes! I bit my nails since I was a kid and us getting worms freaked me right out and I haven't bitten them since! Honestly, much better than any stop and grow rubbish 🤣

We had them last year and I followed the advice, washed all bedding at 60 for 2 weeks and took the ovex doses a week apart. Then, a couple of weeks later my daughter started getting fidgety in bed again, this time it was just before I was about to have surgery so not ideal timing 🙄 I'd read that the eggs can live for 2 weeks outside of your body, so I bought more ovex and we followed the instructions for a week apart, then I gave us another dose 2 weeks after just to be bloody sure!!! I also told her nursery, not sure if they did anything but she wasn't great at washing her hands after the toilet at home so I wanted them to keep an eye on that too!

Then he needs to stop biting his nails. It’s grim for a grown man to continually get worms, my vagina would be zipped shut until he learns to wash his hands, stop biting his nails and learn how to stop getting infestations of worms.

You can't leave them. Not least because they can go into your vagina and HURT.

I do sympathise though, I wanted to run away when we had them in the house.

Definitely Vaseline on bum, tell nursery and ask pharmacist / GP if you can take higher / Moore frequent doses of meds

I’m sure I read that something like ten percent of the population have threadworms at any one time 🤢 lots of people are asymptomatic and sometimes only notice when there’s a population explosion.

I wouldn’t worry too much about the showering tbh or the mad laundering of bedsheets. Just a dose of Ovex once a week for as long as it takes. Adjust your diet, dodge sugar, you want plenty of garlic, fibre salads made with grated carrots. Thoroughly wash hands. Vaseline on bums at night.

Eventuslly you will succeed in breaking the cycle.

I thought we had it luckily only my one dc seemed to we did ovex, I washed everyone's bedding daily for the first 3 days may have done dcs bedding for 5 days washing the actual duvet itself on the first day. Hovered high traffic areas and dc bedroom daily first 3 days and also damp dusted dc bedroom and bleached and wiped all his toys. Cut the nails put boxers and pj's on before bed slather Vaseline. Change boxers every night and morning for the first 5 days maybe more and bum wash every morning and night and then hose the bath after that. I also ditched towels for drying hands we where using kitchen roll and straight into a bin obviously handwriting too I also bought antibacterial hand wipes for dc and wiped the toilet after he went with antibacterial everytime. Luckily no one else caught them did second dose of ovex 2 weeks later and thankfully all clear. Could it be a nurse issue getting reinfected? I've heard pineapple juice is good to so I give him some of that. As others have said aswell keep toothbrushes away

As some pp have already suggested, ovex/boots equivalent morning and evening for 3 days. I know it's not the instructions in this country, but we had a particularly bad infestation so i googled ovex and the NHS prescribes it for other types of worms at this dose, so i was confident to give my 6 yo this. The rest of us didnt even have worms! but his poo was half solid worms after we got the right dosage. Grim.

Oh god, bum worms are the worst!

Agree you’re doing everything right, and the other suggestions made by PPs are also excellent. All I wanted to add was to make sure all fruit and veg is thoroughly rinsed before you eat it.

Make sure you’re wiping bedroom furniture down as the eggs get thrown everywhere when getting undressed or taking bedding off