The best time to do this is at night or in the morning before a bath when there's the most pinworm activity around the anus. The doctor also might take some samples from under a child's fingernails to look for eggs. If your child has a pinworm infection, the doctor will recommend an over-the-counter or prescription antiworm medicine. This is given in one dose and repeated in 2 weeks. The doctor may decide to treat the entire family, especially if your child has had a pinworm infection before.
Although medicine takes care of the worm infection, the itching may continue for about a week. So the doctor also might give your child a cream or other medicine to help stop the itching.
Regular hand washing and routine household cleaning including frequent changing of underwear, and washing everyone's pajamas, towels, and bed linens also will help prevent the spread of a pinworm infection within the family.
Call the doctor if your child complains of itchy skin or always seems to be scratching the anal or vaginal area. Also ask about whether pinworms could be to blame if your child has trouble sleeping or has begun to wet the bed. Pinworms can irritate the urethra — the channel through which pee leaves the bladder and exits the body — and lead to bedwetting. Remember that pinworms are quite common among kids and aren't harmful.
By taking medicine and following some prevention tips, you'll be rid of the worms in no time. Larger text size Large text size Regular text size. What Is a Pinworm Infection? How Do Pinworm Infections Spread? These eggs can be found on contaminated hands and surfaces, such as: bed linens towels clothing especially underwear and pajamas toilets bathroom fixtures food drinking glasses eating utensils toys kitchen counters desks or lunch tables at school sandboxes The eggs pass into the digestive system and hatch in the small intestine.
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Our on-line pet store is available through our website. It is the most common worm infection in the United States. Pinworm infection occurs most commonly among. Pinworm infection often occurs in more than one person in household and institutional settings.
Child care centers often are the site of cases of pinworm infection. Pinworm eggs become infective within a few hours after being deposited on the skin around the anus and can survive for 2 to 3 weeks on clothing, bedding, or other objects. People become infected, usually unknowingly, by swallowing ingesting infective pinworm eggs that are on fingers, under fingernails, or on clothing, bedding, and other contaminated objects and surfaces.
Because of their small size, pinworm eggs sometimes can become airborne and ingested while breathing. Pinworm infections are rarely spread through the use of swimming pools. Pinworm infections occur when a person swallows pinworm eggs picked up from contaminated surfaces or fingers. Although chlorine levels found in pools are not high enough to kill pinworm eggs, the presence of a small number of pinworm eggs in thousands of gallons of water the amount typically found in pools makes the chance of infection unlikely.
During this treatment time and two weeks after final treatment, it is a good idea to avoid co-bathing and the reuse or sharing of washcloths. Showering may be preferred to avoid possible contamination of bath water. Careful handling and frequent changing of underclothing, night clothes, towels, and bedding can help reduce infection, reinfection, and environmental contamination with pinworm eggs. These items should be laundered in hot water, especially after each treatment of the infected person and after each usage of washcloths until infection is cleared.
Humans are considered to be the only hosts of E. Diagnosis is made by identifying the worm or its eggs. Worms can sometimes be seen on the skin near the anus or on underclothing, pajamas, or sheets about 2 to 3 hours after falling asleep.
The eggs stick to the tape and the tape can be placed on a slide and looked at under a microscope. Because itching and scratching of the anal area is common in pinworm infection, samples taken from under the fingernails may also contain eggs. Pinworm eggs rarely are found in routine stool or urine samples.
Pinworm can be treated with either prescription or over-the-counter medications. A health care provider should be consulted before treating a suspected case of pinworm infection. Treatment involves two doses of medication with the second dose being given 2 weeks after the first dose. All household contacts and caretakers of the infected person should be treated at the same time.
Reinfection can occur easily so strict observance of good hand hygiene is essential e.
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