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Daughter with itchy bottom

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SpiritualKnot · 07/10/2007 20:45

My 8 year old daughter is suffering for a second night with an itchy bum.It's not worms, she's had those before, though I have some tablets from before and could give her one of those anyway?

How can I help, I've washed her with water and tried Eurax cream, that worked last night, But tonight it didn't work and she's crying with it as she's so tired.

Any suggestions of how to help?

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imaginaryfriend · 09/10/2007 21:10

How do you put sellotape over an anal opening though? Wouldn't it just get wriggled off? or wouldn't the sticky side just stick to your skin? How does it capture the little devils?

Blandmum · 09/10/2007 21:16

Mature worms are often passed in the faeces. tape worms attach to the inside of the digestive tract, but I don't think that this is the case for threadworms. If it is, it certainly doesn't stop them exiting the body in faeces.

imaginaryfriend · 09/10/2007 21:25

and thread worms are the ones most commonly had by children?

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FrannyandZooey · 09/10/2007 21:28

I have questions, too

I also want to know if daytime itching can be worms, or only night time

and you know the scary hygiene hoovering everywhere thing - is that necessary if you have done the two doses of tablets? Can you reinfect yourself by inhaling them from your house, if you take the two doses, or do the tablets knock everything out

PLUS - if you do treat, and no worms show up in the poo, does that mean it was not worms? I would really like to know whether our symptoms are a recurrence of worms, or just paranoia

Elibean · 09/10/2007 22:13

My nephew had threadworms (not seen, but sore, itchy bum at night) and my brother found one on himself after feeling a tickling sensation, some time during the evening. I think they tend to come out when people aren't moving around much - be that day or night??

Have to confess to -faced relief at not being the only paranoid itch-analyzer on MN...

Elibean · 09/10/2007 22:14

MB, you are hot on threadworms

sKerryMum · 09/10/2007 22:15

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FrannyandZooey · 09/10/2007 22:30

FOUND one on himself? what the.....
no actually don't tell me

Elibean · 09/10/2007 22:38

I can't tell you, as it happens - he had an urgent work-call on his other line just as he was about to explain. So he said.

I suspect mirrors, myself...

Elibean · 09/10/2007 22:41

And I would like to know about the no-worms-in-poo-after-treating thing too - they must come out somehow, surely?

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pneumalifenewname · 09/10/2007 22:48

I new we had them when I found one after I wiped. I clamped my bum shut for 48 hours after that and put a torch under my duvet so no more would come out. Had to walk to pharmacy like a penguin.yuck.

CristinaTheAstonishing · 09/10/2007 22:51

Sorry to laugh, Pneuma. I'm trying to imagine sleeping with a torch under the duvet. Are they scared of light?

pneumalifenewname · 09/10/2007 22:56

sorry, i must be self obsessed; said new instead of knew!

Erm, well NHS Direct person said they come out at night so I figured I'd just make it day the whole time until I could get to the chemist. The one I spotted was after a bath - I think they like the warm. I didn't see another but I didn't visit the toilet again until I dosed myself with Ovex or whatever it's called.

I think dd had them first as her bottom was itchy for about a week beforehand and i taped her bum in the night and there were white strands on the tape.

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Elibean · 10/10/2007 07:40

pneuma re tape! And re torch, I know where you're coming from...

sKerry, dd didn't have any in her poo before or after treating. She had an occasional red and itchy/uncomfortable anus/vagina, usually after her bath: could have been worms, could have been eczema, could have been dodgy wiping with potty-training child. But all her poos were in the potty at that stage, and trust me, I stared at them and even poked them with a stick

Elibean · 10/10/2007 07:41

And once the idea of TW was in my pregnant mind, I itched and twitched too

FrannyandZooey · 10/10/2007 08:13

yes we have had suspected recent worms

rather than treat everyone straight away, we treated ds, but there was nothing visible in his poo either before or after

dp thinks that means conclusively that he didn't have them - I am not so sure

DumbledoresGirl · 10/10/2007 09:08

Ah, so whatever you need to get rid of the worms you can buy from the chemist can you? You don't need to go to the GP, as described in my medical encyclopaedia, and have a swab taken? [shudder - and I have already humiliated myself enough with 4 births and one dreadful anal fissure which had to be examined]

I think I am in the clear now. I was utterly convinced I had the blighters and was desperate last night. But I tried some sudocrem which had no immediate effect but this morning I seem nearly back to normal again.

I am staying away from these threads in future! Oh but quickly, someone tell me first, can you buy the treatment over the counter with prescription?

DumbledoresGirl · 10/10/2007 09:09

That should say without prescription.

sKerryMum · 10/10/2007 09:30

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Elibean · 10/10/2007 10:25

DG, no prescription needed - just ask for Ovex. Pill or liquid. But tbh, if you've had a fissure in the past I would bet any itching (especially day time) could be scar tissue related...glad the sudacreme helped!

FZ, your dp and mine of like mind. You and me too - I still wonder. Even though itching has resumed, occasionally, for both dd and myself within days of treatment, making me think its probably eczema (her) and postnatal piles (me)

FWIW, my GP reckons less than half the itchy bottoms he sees are down to threadworms - so we're not the only paranoid ones

DumbledoresGirl · 10/10/2007 11:05

Fissure was over 11 years ago. but dh said something about sometimes you can graze the skin (how? we won't go there!) and that can feel itchy. I really don't know. I am sure I would never have thought of threadworms had it not been for this thread. I am beginning to see the funny side now!

But thanks for the Ovex name. It may be useful to know in the future. The great thing about parenting is you never stop learning!

imaginaryfriend · 10/10/2007 12:36

Nobody explained to me how / where you apply sticky tape to a bottom?

DG, blimey this is a bit personal but anyway, I sometimes get small tears in the anal area (it's only happened since childbirth for some reason - I suspect I have a tear which never completely heals) and my GP prescribed me some Canesten cream with hydrocortisone. After putting it one once it is always immediately gone. It starts to sting / itch every couple of weeks but this cream always gets rid of it. May not be relevant for you but you never know.

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