Feel like I should be ringing a bell and shouting plague - another <whisper> worms thread

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Had one bad day today - after very little sleep with ds2. Visited doctors for throat and given ABs for that. Came home - changed his nappy and found the little blighter!

Sent DH to the chemist for ovex for whole family. They wouldn't give him any for ds2 as he's only 16 mnths - went back to doctors, they were shut! Went to HV, massive wait, had to get dd from school, found that hv would be shut by the time I got back, pushed into the front of queue, saw HV, burst into tears. She rang duty GP who I have to see in the morning - still with me?

Couldn't pull myself together enough to ask HV questions (First time I'd see her in a year!) - so please could someone tell me.

Having skimmed through over threads - realise I need to rid the house of eggs. Will be closely monitoring nose picking. But how clean is clean - feeling like I want to bleach everything in sight and boil anything left over!

Feeling myself going again pass the tissues! - started AF today to make everything even better!

Wash all your bedding, give everywhere a good hoover and mop any hard floors wiht a bit of bleach if you can.

Give your loo a really good scrub with bleach

The chemist told me that the kids often pick this up from sand-pits at nurseries or playgroups!
I had never heard this before - scrub all nails at every oportunity.
Wash all the bedding, and PJ's etc

Get pripsen for ds2 horrible backcurrant drink for under 2's

You need to boil wash as a 40c cycle will not kill the little critters. Hoover as well and make sure the DCs nails are short and that they wear pants in bed to stop them itching themselves.

Have you painted a cross on the front door yet?

Also , make sure all children have their nails cut short. I normally also wash any favourite cuddly toys which are normally in the bed.

dd2 gets them alot. She is 3 and everything still goes in her mouth. However, dd1 never gets them and at times they even share a bed. I also put dd2 in tights so she can't scratch herslf all the time. You may not want to do that with the boys though!

Wash bums every morn too!

Wow - thanks for all the tips - have just been out buying the paint for the front door cross.

Feel so unclean!

Have a cleaning phobia that I think this has cured - every cloud and all that!

Do I need to know if the other dc have them or do I just treat them all as if they have (am dosing everyone anyway!) - would rather no have another face to face (or bum) encounter!

Have also had conflicting advice re pets - HV said that he could have got them from the dog, nursery have told me that is impossible - who's right? The pets are regularly wormed but have been looking for an excuse to get rid of the cat for the last 6 years!

I've been told no to pets
treat everyone
My dds episode coincided with wobbly teeth!

Have just answered the pe question on NHS direct - says no that can't get them from pets. Ruddy HV - thought I'd found a reason for getting rid of the cat (dog to valuable for cleaning up child food droppings).

Must stop reading t'net am revolting myself!