some yukky questions about worms

[janeashersbookofspacecakes]

Dp, myself andd dd had the orange tablet for worms about 5 days ago after I discovered what seemed like worms and eggs in her poo and sometimes around her anus when she'd not poo'd.
Since then she's been ok till today when I found a load more. Why are they back. Is this tablet infallible, and should I wait the recommended 2 weeks to do the tablet again?

Have you googled the name of the tablet you were given or searched 'worms' on the net? It may offer you more info, sorry to sound unhelpful but I google all the time and it does help.

Do you mean Ovex? If so, it takes about 48 hours to kill the worms....if the ones you found today are dead, it makes sense.

If they are still alive, they should be very much dying - if you find any more alive ones after today, I'm baffled!

I presume you're talking about threadworm?

And yes, wait the 2 weeks because the point of that is to get the eggs that have hatched since taking the first tablet - eggs are not killed in the process, nor are newly hatched worms.

Also, eggs are invisible to the naked eye, so not sure what you saw in her poo but not eggs?

Good luck, and death to the horrid things!

Cheers cheeset and Elibean. They are Ovex. Didn't realise the eggs were invisible. There are things like cotton thread plus things the size of sesame seeds which I assumed were eggs. What else could they be?

I'm not very sure about human worms, but in dogs etc a lot of worms have a2-3 week life cycle, and the drug only kills the adults, so you will get larvae and eggs developing, which will be killed off by the next treatment. I think they use piperazine citrate to kill them, which (in animals! Sorry- vet !) only kills the mature worms and so needs to be repeated a couple of times at 2wk intervals. hth!

sesame seeds?

does she eat a lot of bananas?

Banana's can cause stringy poos aparently.

You have to carry on with the ocd stlee hygiene stuff too to prevent reinfection. We had 'em at the weekend and I'm already v bored with all the nail scrubbing!

No idea re sesame seeds been eating cereal, muesli type stuff??

Are the thready ones still wriggling?