How Can I Get Rid of Pinworms?
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Vacum beds every morning, put pyjamas into the laundry every morning. If this is too costly get your kids to wear COTTON panties at night and wash these every day. The should be cotton so that they do not cause sweating.
Wash all kitchen surfaces, make sure everybody has their own bathroom towel and keep toothbrushes seperate and in a cupboard. Ensure everyone in the home takes the pinworm medicine, even if they are not sure they are infected.
Make sure everybody washes their hands before eating and avoid buying foods that need to be eaten using fingers like ribs for example. The idea is to get everyone eating with a knife and fork. Once the pinworms have gone and been gone for 30 days you can go back to finger foods.
Pinworms Symptoms
Pinworms make their prescence felt mostly at night. In both adults and children the first sign that an infection is present is a persistently itchy bottom, click here for pinworms treatment options
After a few nights of itching the bottom can become very sore. This in itself will add to the misery. And if you are not infected but your kids are then no one in the street will get any sleep!
The itching occurs at night because tha is when the female pinworm becomes active in laying eggs. To do this she makes her way down the anal canal and ot through the rectum to begin laying eggs. Of course there will be many worms doing this at any one time. As they do so they ooze out a slimy mucus which irritates the sensitive skin. It is usually this that causes the itching rather than the movement of the pinworms themselves.
Because of this symptoms include the itching, they also include a feeling of lethargy due to constantly interrupted sleep and irritableness also down to tiredness. Symptoms do not include feeling hungry, this is a myth.
Who Can Catch Pinworms?
Pinworms can be transmitted very easily because their eggs are hardy. Anyone who comes into contact with these egss can be infected. It does not matter how old you are, what your state of health is or if you are fastidiously clean.
Children are more likely to get pinworms because they have a knack of putting their fingers in their mouths. This is normal “discovery” behaviour and children should not be admonished for doing this. What they need to be told to do is to wash their hands regularly especially after visiting the toilet and before mealtimes.
Are Pinworms Dangerous
The simple answer is no, not in the developed world as they can be treated. It is best not to leave them untreated becasue of the soreness caused by itching and the tierdness they bring about.
In developing nations pinworms are present in large numbers of the population of certain areas with little or no major health concerns in the short term.
