[imamumto3]

i was talking to a friend earlier (yes a real friend!) and her dd and probably ds have had thread worm for the last 4 weeks. she treats them, washes sheets and towels in hot water and has been really on to them about washing hands and they keep getting them. what else should she be doing?

[onehotmumma]

Is she following up with a second dose of the treatment and a week or two later?

[imamumto3]

she has given a dose every week for the last 4 weeks.

my kids have only ever needed one treatment so i dont know what else to suggest

[melajoe]

Maybe look at where they could be picking them up from? Are the adults in the household being treated too? Family pets? Could they be bringing them home from daycare or school?

Apart from basic hygiene I'm not sure what else she can do?

[taranicole]

We had this problem recently! Is it definetly threadworm?

There are a few different types of worms/parasites they can get and some don't respond to conventional worming tablets like giardia....I couldn't see any threadworms when I checked. but they still had all the symptoms tummy pains, weird poo, etc....so I just continued going crazy with the hygiene e.g NO baths only showers (my boys drink bath water ) and gave them olive leaf extract (from the health food shop) and some probiotics for a month or so and everyone seems to be better!!!

Some naturopaths are good at diagnosing different parasites as sometimes GP's testing is a bit more invasive or gross (e.g poo samples) and they've always been spot on for us and cleared it up with some nutritional advice and/or homeopathic remedies.

[imamumto3]

\nWe had this problem recently! Is it definetly threadworm?\n\nThere are a few different types of worms/parasites they can get and some don't respond to conventional worming tablets like giardia....I couldn't see any threadworms when I checked. but they still had all the symptoms tummy pains, weird poo, etc....so I just continued going crazy with the hygiene e.g NO baths only showers (my boys drink bath water ) and gave them olive leaf extract (from the health food shop) and some probiotics for a month or so and everyone seems to be better!!!\n\nSome naturopaths are good at diagnosing different parasites as sometimes GP's testing is a bit more invasive or gross (e.g poo samples) and they've always been spot on for us and cleared it up with some nutritional advice and/or homeopathic remedies.\n

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definately thread worms, she looked when dd wiped and said there was heaps of them.

[katrina24]

She could add in damp dusting, daily vacuuming, disinfecting door handles and light switches, shower in the morning, wear leggings to bed under jammies to stop scratching. The biggest spread is the kids scratching their bottoms in their sleep, getting eggs under their nails and then onto everything and in their mouth. Perhaps also wash soft toys and wipe over hard ones. Seems OTT but worth it to get rid of the little buggers.

[Freckles]

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[Curly Wurly]

Does she bite her nails?

We use Herome Bye Bite which stays on like nail polish. It soon cured the habit and how often we had to worm.

We found that the best worming stuff were the orange chewable tablets with Mebendzole. We worm everybody in the house for three weeks.

We also added acidopholus (sp?) to her diet to get the good bacteria back into her system.

Goodluck.