Anyone dealt with threadworms -need advice!

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My (d)h has just informed me he’s got them after suffering the symptoms for over a week. He’s just picked up the medicine and we’ve both taken some tonight and I’ll give some to the children in the morning. I’ve got just under 5 and he’s about to go away with work for two weeks. I’ve read the nhs website that you should be changing bedsheets (and ironing them?!) daily, vacuuming the house daily and bleaching the bathrooms daily for two weeks because the eggs can live outside the body for 14 days. Has anyone else dealt with threadworms before? Is this the only way to stop reinfection? Doing all of those daily for two weeks (changing 4 beds!) will break me as I have no family nearby so look after the children without a break but I’m feeling worried if I don’t do all that cleaning we’ll never get rid of them! As far as I know only he has them, I’ll check the children in the morning.

Thanks Feral, I’ve bleached deep cleaned and vacuumed again this morning. It’s just that he didn’t tell me for a week or get treatment for a week so I’ve been doing the washing without knowing and have an image of eggs all over the house now which is why I panicked last night. Putting it in the diary to do treatment again in two weeks!

I did a one off deep clean of everywhere and boil washed bedding. I made dd wear pants to bed. In the morning I would run a bath for her. I made her stand on a bath mat and carefully take off her pants which I would then put in a plastic bag with the bath mat and then transfer to washing machine. Dd would then wipe and have bath to wash away any eggs.

We seem to get them about every 6 months - both DC suck their thumbs so we are absolutely doomed to a lifetime of worms :(

I console myself with these facts:

1. Apparently (I read somewhere) 40% of primary aged school children have worms at any one time. (Just no-one ever talks about it)
2. Whilst they are gross they are not just harmless but apparently good for the immune system

Also, be thankful you have boys - I had my poor DD in agony the other night with a painful vagina and it turned out to be a threadworm in there. GROSS. I was very grateful that it was during the mini sun-wave we had rather than the rain-wave we're getting at the moment - at least all the washing dried!

Aw Flippety that sounds painful 🙁 I did wonder if it’s just one of those people don’t talk about and reckon it must happen to plenty of others at school! It sounds harder for the girls.

Take the medicine and then the next morning hot wash (90 degree) all bedding/sleepwear. Everyone to shower to wash away any dying nasties! All those towels on a hot wash too. Then move on!