Hi all. I found the messages on this topic more than useful over the last few weeks and I wanted to add in my experience to help anxious mums to be in the future. I have a 4 year old who I found to have threadworms at which point I was 12 weeks pregnant. The pharmacist was clear that I was not to take the medication (Vermox). I found myself to have them a number of days later. To say that this was traumatic is a wild understatement and I have spent the last 3 weeks obsessively thinking about them and feeling absolutely disgusted as the thought of them living in my body and sneaking out of my bum at night. Following the "natural" recommendations online, I have taken to (i) eating raw carrots, (ii) 2 cloves of raw garlic ingested daily (iii) grapefruit seed extract in my smoothies, (iv) 70grams of sunflower seeds a day, (v) drinking apple cider vinegar in a pint of water and, finally, diatomaceous earth which I also mix into my smoothies. I started the DE on week 2 at which point I was still clearly suffering from threadworms. Over the last few days (I am now week 3), I think I may be in the clear. I have not seen any live ones and have seen the odd one that looks dead in my poo. I also vaseline up my bum and shove a vaseline covered piece of tissue up my bum (not in my bum, if you understand), as I imagine they cant migrate beyond that. It seems that in Australia, they have a product Combantrin Chocolate Squares for threadworm, that while are still category C in pregnancy, contain pyrantel which no longer licensed in UK or Ireland but is considered less of a tetrogenic risk than what is in the vermox. I ordered this, it takes two to three weeks to arrive and will consider taking it if I still have any symptoms at that point, at which time I will be 18 weeks. My obstetrician told me that the advice in the hospital is 6 weeks of strict hygiene (that goes without saying) and if no success, take the meds. I am super cautious about taking any drug in pregnancy however so it will very much be the last resort. If anyone has any wisdom to share, I would very much like to hear it. I feel like the natural recommendations may not yield the results people hope. If you had told me three weeks ago that I would be on constant worm alert, I would have despaired. It is just so annoying that pregnant women are told to go and live with it.