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Just got over the nits to experience the fresh hell of threadworms! I found one last night - I appear to be the only one affected but we're supposed to treat the whole family. DD is only 10 months and still breast feeding quite a lot - anyone have any experience of what I can take? (I've posted this in "breast and bottle feeding too"). AAAAAGH!!

sorry dd helped type the title!

You can take Piperazine medications, as opposed to Mebendazole ones. Ovex is Mebendazole, but Pripsen do both - I took it when pregnant, with OBs blessing (and great relief, wasn't sure if I had them but pretty sure dd did!).

Make sure its the Piperazine version though - and make sure you go to the loo the next day, as it doesn't kill them, just paralyzes them long enough to 'expel them'

Oh, and I would do the follow up treatment two weeks later!

Good luck, especially with the washing/cleaning...

Elibean thanks so much! That's great!

You're welcome - you will see 'check with your dr if pg or bf' but FWIW, I did, and it was fine. It might give your dd the runs, though, be warned - it has laxative in it - so if she has delicate digestion or is v small for her age, I would ask GP first.

When dd1 did (definitely!) have TW, dd2 wsa just over a year old and we gave her Piperazine Pripsen - she had pink diarrhoea twice then was fine. And no worms in any nappies - your little one may have escaped