Okay I can’t believe I’m writing this (thank god this forum is anonymous) but I think it needs to be said as a warning to others.
For approximately 4 years I have been tortured with an itchy bottom. I mean it would itch so bad that I was regularly in tears! It was like a gnawing, burning itching that I can’t even really describe.
Recently the itch moved into my vagina and my god, it was HELL on a daily basis when they both started! I’d spend my days and nights violently scratching both (gross I know, but my hands were always covered and I scrubbed them with antibacterial handwash after everytime).
My doctor told me it was piles and I done the usual - anusol, preparation h, etc however nothing gave me relief at all.
A few days ago my 7 year old started complaining of a sore itchy bum and we had 2 nights with barely any sleep because of it. On the third night she said it was her ‘front bum’ now too, so I asked to have a look and to my horror there was a threadworm on her 🤢😭
Basically what this tells me is that I have had these disgusting things for years and I have infected my poor daughter!
The whole house has been dosed with Vorex and everywhere bleached to within an inch of its life!
I have spent the last few days in between cleaning and wanting to cry, googling threadworms and it seems that they can be transmitted to others extremely easily and also a lot of people don’t realise they have them.
I think more awareness needs to be made of these. Schools are very good at sending home information about nits, I can’t understand why more information isn’t available on worms (I knew nothing about them until this).
Itchy bottoms are so common amongst adults and kids alike and I think when it’s adults it’s easily wrote off as piles and with kids we usually just put it down to them not cleaning themselves properly!
AIBU to warn mumsnet of these disgusting parasites?