Worms advice...

[charleyfarleycat]

Oh my god, I've done some things in my time with the kids, but collecting worms from my daughters backside and fanny annie is a whole new ballgame.
Any one got any advice. Done worming pills (the whole family) washed sheets, teddies, mopped. How long til my poor girl will not be writhing around at night with an itchy bum, and working herself into a state? ( I have chosen not to tell her she has worms).
My son (15 months) seems clear at the moment but as he is partial to eating mud pies and snails it's only a matter of time isn't it?

My sympathies - ds has had it a couple of times. Your dd is probably getting it from school or nursery. Make sure she puts on clean underwear every night otherwise you will need to wash the bedding daily. Scrub fingernails with a nail brush and keep nails short. Your son may not get it because it is passed directly from an infected person or from the environment (which you are cleaning, so unlikely). The worm pill you gave ds should protect him from contracting it from dd. But the main problem is that whoever dd is getting it from may not have been treated. Nothing you can do about that unfortunately.

As ladylush says, plus I've found it helps wearing pants as well as pyjamas.

I'm told you can also get worms from books, if the eggs are in/on the pages.

Should I tell the school?I feel a bit of a bad mother that my daughter has worms. Always thought we were relatively clean...

yes pants and pjs best - quite hot in this weather though

I wouldn't bother to tell the school because you have done the responsible thing by treating her. There are other infected kids there - that's how your dd is getting it. This is nothing to do with your hygiene standards and is pretty much unavoidable. All you can do is act fast with treatment of dc and damp dusting etc. to kill any eggs.

I'd tell the school - your daughter has caught it from someone so it's not like she "started it" I'm sure the school would like to know, and would handle the situation sensitively...

Remember to worm again in two weeks and you should be fine until the next time she gets it. I know there are some MNers who just worm their children routinely every few months on the basis that it's so prevalent in the age group that they are very likely to have picked them up and just not be showing any symptoms yet.

But really, what can the school do about it?

Well not a lot I guess. I don't remember worms being so common when I was younger?

It was - it's just not spoken about much for obvious reasons. People will talk about nits/lice more willingly than thread worms.

Remember to keep everybody in the houses finger nails very short for the next two weeks

I would add to the advice already given - keep the DCs nails very short - the eggs get under their nails when they scratch their bums.

I'd tell the school, but as long as you have treated, no need to keep her off school.

My sympathies - my DCs have had them, and i had them as a child. It was HORRIBLE, and the treatment (Pripsen powder mixed in water) made me sick - still can't eat anything Raspberry-flavoured

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I'd forgotten the taste of that stuff until you mentioned it . New tablets muchmuchmuchmuch better.

My school just sends letters saying there are worms in the class, just as they do if someone reports nits. No biggie

Luckily you can now get chewable orange flavoured tablets. My daughter is almost 4 so could have that. My son wouldn't have teh Pripsen powder in his milk so we're winging it a bit with him. Not sure he scratches his bum yet, so as long as we keep his hands clean and everything else dusted I reckon we should be ok.
Was hard to get to sleep the other night after collecting worms....poor little girl.

Poor thing. I had a vaginal infection when I was little after having the worms. I still remember the indignity

Well I fished a couple out from there on Monday night. I can't see how the worming tablet works if there's a worm up there instead of up your bum? Anyone?

www.cks.nhs.uk

Why are you fishing them out? There will be too many for it to make any difference. The worms are hatching from eggs that are in your daughter's intestine. The tablet kills the eggs and starves the worms of glucose.

Precisely, in your intestine. As far as I remember from biology, our vaginas aren't connected to our digestive system, so how does the tablet work in that case?
And I was fishing them out because when they were emerging was when my daughter was complaining most about itchiness and hurting, which I guess stands to reason.
And frankly, I would want a worm removed from my fanny if there was one there!

Oh thanks, will look at the link now.
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Thanks ladylush, that is a brilliant website.

You're welcome I had them as a small child as well, so I really do feel for your dd (got them in the same place).

Charleyfarleycat - did your DD get rid of the threadworms?

My DD currently has these for the first time and I agree it is so awful.
However after spotting a HUGE one there has been no more evidence of them and she is not complaining of any itchiness so how do you know if they have disappeared?

I makes me sick to think she has them especially after reading up about them on the internet.