Have just been informed that a child in my son's preschool has threadworm. He mentioned an itchy bum once or twice over the past few weeks, but he doesn't seem bothered other than that, so I'm not sure if it was just 'normal' itchy bum that kids get. I checked his bum last night around 10 and saw nothing at all. I haven't seen anything in his poo.
I have baby girl who is still in nappies, and I'm driving myself crazy checking them. I know that threadworm looks like small white cotton threads, but how apparent would they be? I'm looking very very closely and have seen something that I could convince myself is threadish, but I'm not 100% convinced at all. I've just shown my husband and nappy and he thinks I'm crazy.
I'd be happy to go ahead and treat everyone and clean the house and all that, but the thing is, our baby is immunocompromised (she's on chemo) and her consultant wasn't happy for her to be treated when it was just a hypothetical that she might have threadworms. But if she definitely does, I'd push for a more definite course of action. There seems little point in treating everyone but her if she has them.
So my question: how apparent are threadworms in poo? How definite are the symptoms? (I realise some people don't have symptoms, hence me looking for signs of threadworm in poo and on my son's bum.) I feel like I'm going crazy with trying to figure out if we have something and it may all be for nothing!