worms - why has one son had it twice and the others NEVER?

[cod]

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cod, it's really not your uncleanliness! Kids often pick them up from school/nursery situations especially where there are things like sandpits.

They scratch their bums, then everything they touch gets the worm eggs on (so door handles, carpets, sandpits etc.), someone else gets the eggs on their hands from touching the eggs and they touch their mouth and little worms hatch in their tummy!

Last time dd got them, we all got them (it was a lovely, family bum scratching time). Are you sure the other dss don't have them?

normally, the scratching is intense at night time/evening - this is when the little blighters come out to lay their eggs so the best time to see them is at night time (they look like little white cotton threads coming out the bum). Have a look with a torch while they are sleeping.

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We ( touch wood) have not had them for years but we did go through a spate - particularly dd as she is thumb sucker. I always keep a packet it as they make me squirm ( metaphorically!!!!!) and i need to treat immediately - plus boil wash all towels sheets and bedwear!
I know a doctor who treats her children prophylactically( sp) so i must admit to doing that when things are rife in school!

...mine seem prone as well..

have you tried grapefruit seed extract.

Mine eldest was prone and this really seemed to help. He was able to take it in water and didn't notice the taste.

I give him this when he begins to complain about being sore and itching....

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OOOh worms are horrible. dd2 got them and passed them to me - try getting rid of the buggers when you are breastfeeding!!. Dd2 sucks her thumb so I thought that may be a reason.

dont know cod, but I was the child who never got them, my bro and sis both got them several times. v odd.

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dd2 gets them. i think. she yells about her bottom hurting in bed anyway. but she's my more hygeinic child.

is it worms if they yell about it hurting but you can't see any visible sign of worms? (though i must admit I don't actually look too closely)

dd1 is far more slack about hygeine but she hasn't had them.

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ok will go in with the torch tonight.....

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I have never heard of this . Yet more things to worry about, and I feel ill at the thought of nits.

Do they get them at school age, is that why I have not come across them?

I've seen them by checking when I hear complaints about itching.

we have had nits AND worms lately. grungy family or what.

am off to wash some bedding now, suddenly motivated by this thread out of my domestic sluttishness.

I think it's more likely once they are at school oo, dd2 got them aged 6.

Just been reading up about treatment and prevention on the nhs site - and I'm ashamed to say that I need to raise my household hygiene standards

now look you lot
We had worms over the hols and I traced it to ds2 (he had nits as well poor boy) and he is only 2.
It can strike anyone and it is not down to poor hygiene. The hygiene recs are to change beds and damp dust daily when infested, but that would not be "normal" hygiene, would it.
I change bedlinen weekly, always iron it (ahha! and you all laugh at me!) and dust and hoover bedrooms once/twice weekly. I think that is reasonably clean, esp as we are not all in the house most days.
IMHO it's other people not treating them.
Oh yes and need to cut nails, luckily we do anyway because of excema.
Been nit and worm free since end Aug thank goodness.

Cod just a thought but has your ds recently been potty trained or given up wearing nappies altogether?
My dd had worms within weeks of giving up night time nappies and I think she discovered she had access to her bits IYKWIM. Didn't help that she is a thumb-sucker either.
It is not down to poor hygiene on your part.

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you must make sure you give the 2nd treatment - i think it's 2 weeks after the first, to make sure they haven't reinfected themselves

and before you see them at all (torch is a good idea imo) you may notice other signs - tiredness because of all the itching, and in dd1's case increase in bedwetting

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