Long term threadworms - I think I have found a solution

Hello one-family thanks for posting this. I'm in the middle of a nasty itchy bout and ive just discovered this site. Took Ovex but i was still itching last night, when will it stop? im on my own no children to worry about but i wonder if i got these latest from a friends little boy. she didnt tell me till the end of my visit about the problem. Im going to phonr her tomorrow and get the latest. You say use ovez regular but some people say it just makes it worse, which is true? Im spending part of my weekend today looking thru the site. Lots of washing ahead if i need clean knicks at night as well as day! What i need is a MAN to give the things to and see how he deals with it lol

Hi there. I agree about Ovex possibly making things worse. But that is perhaps only to start with. Once you start taking it regularly I think you are killing most of the worms before they have a chance to develop eggs. I am not sure of the science of this though. I just felt that each Ovex tablet was killing slightly more than were coming back and that is why it took sooo long to get rid of them entirely. With hindsight, it might have been better to use the Pripsen treatment that actually expels the worms, then you don't get any eggs left behind. All the best, hope you sort it out.

Oh and I wanted to share an interesting fact I gained from my experience. They totally live in your ears!! I think all it takes is a one off transfer of eggs from scratching your bum and then putting your finger in your ear at night. I noticed an insane itching inside my ear canal at nighttime, often when they were wriggling down below as well. I don't think they last forever in there, but they definitely survive much longer than when they get into the vagina. Maybe they can live on earwax? I noticed a faster reduction in my symptoms after I religiously stopped putting my fingers in my ears if they were itchy, day or night.

Gross!!!! When i went visiting i just slept in my knicks wont do that anymore! i cant get to a chemist now till Mon so just hoping this itch wont get anyworse, it drove me crazy last night.

Hello Onefamily, i've just posted on the If you have threadworms please read this... site. Spent my weekend reading up, here and wiki! Good luck everyone here, and i need it too.

Help, I have researched so much and have definitely got this. I'm 13 and my mum is a total hygiene freak, it's hard to explain but I could never tell her this. I tried super hygiene regimes and weeks later I still found lots more worms in poo. The sugar tip really helps, thanks. Shall I just hope they die in 6 weeks or get somemenbedezole, a drug available for over-the-till purchase that's apparently the most effective?

Oh yeah, the most odd thing in my case is that I've had NO ITCHING at all?...!

Hi! From all the symptoms I've read here and on other places, it sounds like I have these Thread-worms. But, being a teenage girl I find it extremely awkward to tell my parents. I have younger brothers and I think I must have caught it from them; which makes it even worse. Should I just wait until they go away and regularly wash, or should I tell someone so I can get some proper treatment. Bearing in mind I have to take Methotrexate weekly... I'm really worried!

Hi, Have been suffering from these infernal things for two and a half years now. Thought at first (like many others) that my haemorrhoids had returned. Needless to say it was not and my self diagnosis of threadworms is confirmed. Doctor was not helpful, neither was Ovex, Albendazole nor Ivermectin (seriously powerful drugs) they did not help in any way but to give me serious skin rash with very dry skin and skin splitting. I have done the homeopathic remedies i.e. black walnut, wormwood and clove remedy - useless. Tried Diatom a while back and in desperation am trying this again over a period of 13 weeks ( 10 to go) haven't found much relief up to now. Took laxatives every other day for about three weeks which like previous so-called remedies only made the situation unbearable.

The small white things that appear in your panties are the male worms (1-2mm long). Females must lay eggs outside of the bowel because the eggs MJST HAVE OXYGEN in order to hatch. It takes the eggs approximately 2 hours plus to hatch and some get lost and go back into the bowel where after making their way to the small intestine they mature into females and the cycle begins again - known as retroinfection.

It is the eggs which are impervious to all disinfectants, bleaches etc.

I believe that there must be research done into producing something to kill the eggs in the stomach before they have a chance to mature in the small intestine.

My sympathies go out to all who are suffering with these tenacious parasites whose only purpose in life is to make every day hell for its hosts. With possibly up to 50% of the population infected, some of whom are oblivious to the fact they are infected or have not been diagnosed with threadworm, this will spread hopefully to some members of the human race (member of parliament, royalty and the like) to be safe in the knowledge that perhaps more research into a cure for threadworms will be found.

Ever hopeful.

I had long term symptoms of threadworm and I'm now completely cured, I think it's important to tell my story for those of you who have had a similar experience to me.

17 years ago I got repeated infection of threadworm through kids stoking my cute dog, and me being very close to my dog.

At first Ovex and pripsen worked well to clear it up, then at some stage it stopped working and no amount of Overdosing on both would work.

When my dog died 3 years ago, I felt I could look forwards to a worm free life by hygene measures, which I became obsessive with, but this failed, and a few years later as I approached my wedding, I did not want to go down the isle with the symptoms which had turned in to what felt like huge and vigorous wriggling things descending from my anus and vagina, and crawling over my buttocks and down my legs, and feelings like the eggs were hatching on my face and other areas, you can imagine what an impact this had on my sex life with my fiance'! I had been to the doctors before and they had done at least 2 poo samples for eggs but found none, and instead said it was down to stress.

I did not believe them, I could not ignore the evidence of my senses, and saying I was stressed offered me no solutions, so I was hell bent on proving I was infested, this is where it gets really gross, I started poo watching and even putting poo samples on a microscope and taking it back to the doctors along with my black knickers to show white flecks on them, evidence I thought of worm debris, I also limited my diet to eating only pineaple, and I started douching myself with garlic enemas, inserting garlic cloves in my anus at night, and so on, and on, and on......sigh!! I have to say, that during all this time I never actually saw any thereadworm evidence, but what I thought might be worms were actually pinaple fibers, it was all horrible and horrible awful, at this stage I had been infected 15 years!

I pestered the doctors so much they sent me to a skin specialist, who then sent my to another specialist in London, now here my story takes an unusual twist, the specialist said that he had come across many cases identical to mine, and there was a simple solution to it, he asked me if I was depressed, and I said what I had been saying all along, that apart from the worms, I was a very happy woman, he talked to me a bit more and decided I wasn't depressed, but prescibed antidepressants! I thought W T F! He said it might be psychosymatic, and effected more women that men over the age of 40, which I was.

I left him saying I was so desperate I would try anything, I go my antidepressants, took one before bedtime, and that night the worms seemed like 'ghost worms', they were there, but less noticable, the following night they completely vanished! And they stayed vanished! I slept in heavenly peace for the first time in years! 

I simply could not belieive my head could play such trick on my body! And I'm not suggesting to anyone that their worms aren't real, especially if there is physical evidence of them, but in my case, my symptoms were real, but the worms, at this stage did not exist! My symptoms were so real, that when I scratched my bottom, the itching would stop, and I concluded I had ruptured the little buggers and killed them, I could also wash them off in the middle of their frenzied activities down there, and it would make it stop, concluding in my mind, that I'd washed them off.

My story does not end here, I had a very happy wedding day, and was so overjoyed to be cured, that I wanted to forget all about it, and so I did, till a month ago, six years after being cured, the little buggers returned, now I was confused!

Were they phantom worms or not! I had no way of telling, still taking my antidepressants ( becaus I get deliciously lovely sleeeps with them : )

I thought even a psychosymatic person might still actually to get worms, well! No one is immune are they! So, I launched back into all my old and depressing habits, determined to eliminate the possibility them actually being real, and finally went back to my GP, ( different guy this time ) he said with rather hurred impatience and nochelance, that I should take some antihisthamine, so I did, and it has stopped again!, over 2 nights!

This time I am convinced it's my mind playing tricks on me again, don't get me wrong, this isn't something like imagination, the symptoms were as real as before, but because this is the 2nd time this has happened, I decided to look up my symptoms, and I was knocked out to read about myself in wikepidia definitions amongst other things. Look up DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_parasitosis

I felt as though they were talking about me exclusively, but I guess there are others out there just like me! Which is why I'm telling my story on this forum, in the hope that one of you may be helped if your experiences are like mine, I felt it was important to tell you, because I am not a doctor, I was a fellow sufferer, and had I been more comprehensively diagnosed early on, it would have saved me years of misery, and I would not have gone down the exhausting challenge of proving I was right, that my worms were real.

This may not be right for you, but if you even suspect that it might be, please approach your doctor in the spirit of eliminating every possibility, and no! I don't like the idea of being delusional, but you can say what you want, as long as I don't have worms, you can call me what you want!

I offer you every sympathy with your condition, and I hope you find your way through it.

Hello. My daughter has just pointed out the white bug in her poo. Googled and now know I am going to war against tw. So I have read here about our possible future (with quite a few sharp intakes of breath). Quite confused.  Seems to be three different medicines, oils and pineapple, diamocteous earth and wet dusting for cleaning.  I'm to never wear a nightie again and washing to be done daily for everything in the house.  How do I get the kids to stop touching their faces and running round without clothes?  Got to remember to not get phantom about it too.

i'll try remember to post later to let you know how it goes.  If I were single in an organised home think this challenge would be less, but always liked a challenge ( famous last words).  Thank god in a way though as thought I had chrons disease! And at least there is a reason for daughters sore tummy now.  Small blessings I guess.