holy c***, just discovered ds has worms...,

[lucykate]

he woke up crying saying his bottom was sore. so i had a look and saw a wriggler! so, oh wise mumsnet, quick questions, obviously i'm going to be nipping out to the chemist in the morning (not going now, it's midnight!), but do i need to keep the dc's off school?

also, everything is going to need washing isn't it, bedding, towels etc, at what temp? (i usually do all ours at 40)

how often should i be washing bedding/towels to avoid any re-infecting?

he has some soft toys in bed, are they going to need washing too?

sorry for all the questions, we've never had worms in this house before

awhich - i've washed a handful of soft toys for each of them and bagged the rest up for a couple of weeks, from what i've read the eggs can live for up to 3 weeks. we took ovex on friday and i did a check on both dc's last night, saw one on ds but it was dead. our house has never been cleaner! have already hoovered, wet dusted and cleaned all the loo's again this morning.

i really want to go visit my mum though, will wait till next week, our half term is for a fortnight. i can't go till we've taken the second dose of ovex really. i have come to the conclusion that threadworms are far worse than nits.