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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 343574" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>On the pin worm issue, I want to point out just how contagious these things are. They can transfer so easily, from person to person. The beasties live in the GI tract (lower end) and don't really do much at all you. But they can be very annoying, and you can lose sleep form the maddening itch.</p><p></p><p>The itch is caused by the female worms emerging usually at night when you're trying to sleep, to lay their eggs just outside the anus. It tickles. So you scratch, and get eggs under your fingernails. You also get eggs on your pyjamas, on bedding, on underwear, on other clothing. The eggs are tiny, they dry out and can blow around in the dust. If you have them on your fingers then anything you touch is possibly loaded with eggs. I remember an ad for threadworm treatment (we call them threadworms here, but it's the same thing) that showed a kid passing a pencil to another kid in school. The caption read, "Annie has just given John a case of threadworms."</p><p></p><p>Thankfully they are easy to treat. It does help to diagnose for sure, and with kids, you diagnose by examining the anus after bedtime with a torch and magnifying glass. Not sure you could do then en masse in a nursing home... But simply dosing everyone at the same time with the one shot pill would work. As long as staff dose themselves too.</p><p></p><p>When we treated any of our kids, we dosed everyone in the family at the same time. Otherwise parents could have it and reinfect the kids.</p><p></p><p>Our kids got very good at diagnosing themselves.</p><p>"Mu-u-um! I've got itchy bottom again!"</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 343574, member: 1991"] On the pin worm issue, I want to point out just how contagious these things are. They can transfer so easily, from person to person. The beasties live in the GI tract (lower end) and don't really do much at all you. But they can be very annoying, and you can lose sleep form the maddening itch. The itch is caused by the female worms emerging usually at night when you're trying to sleep, to lay their eggs just outside the anus. It tickles. So you scratch, and get eggs under your fingernails. You also get eggs on your pyjamas, on bedding, on underwear, on other clothing. The eggs are tiny, they dry out and can blow around in the dust. If you have them on your fingers then anything you touch is possibly loaded with eggs. I remember an ad for threadworm treatment (we call them threadworms here, but it's the same thing) that showed a kid passing a pencil to another kid in school. The caption read, "Annie has just given John a case of threadworms." Thankfully they are easy to treat. It does help to diagnose for sure, and with kids, you diagnose by examining the anus after bedtime with a torch and magnifying glass. Not sure you could do then en masse in a nursing home... But simply dosing everyone at the same time with the one shot pill would work. As long as staff dose themselves too. When we treated any of our kids, we dosed everyone in the family at the same time. Otherwise parents could have it and reinfect the kids. Our kids got very good at diagnosing themselves. "Mu-u-um! I've got itchy bottom again!" Marg [/QUOTE]
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