HOW on Earth Has this Happened?'

[Eeve]

DD (8) has thread worms! She's not been in school since goodness knows when?! Hasn't been near anyone else outside of the the family (we're all okay, though of course will treat!). Little bastard things

I think thread worms are a personal hygiene thing, more careful washing of hands after going to the loo. Poor her, I do sympathise, my DS got them a few years ago, I had never heard of them and nearly died of horror. Have you got tablets for whole family? I also stripped bed, vacuumed and gave him a different set of towels, fresh pjs every night. No one else in the family got them but he did suffer a bit at night because I didn’t get the tablets immediately (ignorance on my part). They are disgusting but must be pretty common as pharmacy’s always have lots of worming tablets for sale!

According to Google theyre spread person to person? How strange! Hope it gets sorted soon

I think thread worms are a personal hygiene thing....

Well yes, once you have them, but they need to be caught from someplace, they don't magically just appear!!

How odd OP! They can be caught from infected soil, so that's soil with human waste in it, you can't catch those types of worms from animal waste, at least I'm assuming its pinworms you mean? The wee white itchy bastards!! Catching worms from animals is pretty much an underdeveloped world type thing, not in the UK.

Yes, tiny little white things. Yes, she is a bit of a grotbag in terms of hand washing frequency and fingers in mouth 🙄. Interesting that they can come from soil infected by human waste (boak). She does love a puddle splash...

Yes, we have tablets - and washing everything thoroughly.

They can take weeks to become noticeable so I suspect she picked them up in late 2020 from school. Treat twice a fortnight apart. Nasty things, I picked them up once.

Ugh! We had these last year. Pesky little fuckers

We had a case last lockdown too, child with dry, sore hands from so much hand washing yet had threadworms at the same time

Possibly undercooked meat??

Wrong kind of worms, the worms you catch from meat are different, and extremely rare in the UK!