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Returning threadworms for years....

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Anna196444
Anna196444

HI, I've had treadworms for almost 5 years now! Ive been eating loads of Opex and Mebendazole. I tried the pumpkin seeds and eaten garlic every day for months...I've also gone up to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases In London to see a specialist for the last 8 months....All their treatment has not worked either. It always comes back! My husband or my two children have never had it and we dont have any pets....I keep a very clean house and im so careful with my hygiene...What can i do to get rid of these? Help Please.....Its driving me insane! 

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  • nedra3
    nedra3 Anna196444

    Posted

    Hi. Sorry if you have answered this, but what do you use daily or nightly if youre itchy? Ive just found great relief in sudo crem from the uk. Also they now sell wipes with pyrantel on amazon. Expensive, but great relief if I just cannot take a shower.

    Also, collodial silver is suppose to kill eggs. So sometimes i mix collodial silver with sudo crem and use it like spackel down there before bed lol.

    Anything you can pass on for relief is greatly appreciated.

    Hope you are better.

  • ashley2412
    ashley2412 Anna196444

    Posted

    Hello again everyone! I’m back, because after practically TWO YEARS of battling this I’m at a loss...  sometimes I question if I’ve just lost my mind all together!! I can always tell when things are getting worse due to my kids change in behavior and the cravings for more junk food! I have three small children aged 6, 4, and 2 and we just found out that SUPRISE I’m pregnant again with our LAST baby... which has got me even more stressed and depressed about this whole situation, that I cannot for the life of me seem to beat.. I’ve talked with doctors on numerous ocassions but they honestly aren’t much help, they just say take the medicine, wash bedding and they should go away.. but sadly this hasn’t been the case for my family. No matter what they ALWAYS come back! Sorry for the venting I did have a question for anyone that might know.. it may be TMI but I am absolutely horrified to think not only are these things living in my body while pregnant but could they be in my vagina as well? I’m dreading going into labor if this is the case and having a baby come into contact with this horrendous thing... I have extremely thready discharge and also flakes in my underwear and itchiness often! My mom tells me there’s no way and it’s probably a yeast infection but I’ve been tested for all of that since I’m pregnant and all comes back negative!!!  I’m dreading telling the dr since they always make me feel stupid.. Has anyone dealing with or dealt with pinworms experienced this or am I just suffering from PTSD due to the pinworm hell I’d hope so but I’m pretty sure this HAS TO BE pinworms in my vagina! Idk anymore so any advice or anything at all would help so much thank you!
  • juju10
    juju10 Anna196444

    Posted

    GUYS I HAVE AMAZING NEWS!!!! i was so worried and annoyed when my worms came back for the 5th time after having medication they come back every 3-5 months or less when i take the medication well my AMAZING NEWS is that i was due for another dose because i could feel them wriggling back and then it gradually got worse again night after night but then one day they were just GONE!! and now every night i try and feel them wriggling and i dont feel a thing!!! they really have dissappeard! sometimes during the day i can feel a SLIGHT tingle but then it just goes and at night i cant feel them! and i think they have gone because of my good healthy diet that i have recently started to do ! for example of my diet i dont eat ANYTHING un healthy during the week [ monday - friday ] and then sometimes in the weekend i will have a little treat to keep me happy haha and then EVERYYYY night i have 1 APPLE AND 1 KIWIFRUIT because they are absolutely amazing for your insides so every night i have one of those and then for a arvo snack i have a banana and berry smoothie with tumeric and cinnamon and chia seeds and ORGANIC ALMOND/NUT MILK  which is AMAZING for your insides and sometimes i have a banana and tropical fruit smothie with tumeric, cinnamon and chia seeds and organic nut almond milk ! and i truly think my diet has killed all the worms!!! im SOOO HAPPY to be back as a normal girl like the rest of my friends as im only 13! XX
    • v98544
      v98544 juju10

      Posted

      Brilliant news juju.  And just shows that the medication is probably more of a hindrance than a cure.  And that diet is the key to being strong and resilient generally.  I also have a lot of ginger, crystallised in the morning and powdered in my afternoon smoothie (I too have turmeric but will be trying it with cinnamon aswell).  Just as a general health thing you could add milled flax seeds.

      Sooo happy for you!!

      xx

    • juju10
      juju10 v98544

      Posted

      thankyou!! and yes my diet is a rlly good fighter against worms haha i had another dose of medication last saturday and guess what it was literally a peice of creamy chocolate ! but had the medicine infused inside it tasted amazing haha! ive been worm free for a number of weeks now so lets hope and pray they stay away xx
  • v98544
    v98544 Anna196444

    Posted

    Hello fellow hosts rolleyes

    I was doing really well up until a few months ago, I've been badly infected almost exactly a year after the first one.  (I'm thinking children off school and being dragged round supermarkets, or those I chips I had at the beach, etc) 

    Anyway I had already purchased some puppy wormer which contains piperazine, but I'd like to try something more natural first.  Looking through this thread and some very similar others on this site I found 'Epazote' a mexican herb, which is supposed to have the same properties as piperazine, ie it stops the adults from hooking on and then they are naturally dragged out by your poop.  So I have ordered some seeds and I will let you know how it goes.

    But also whilst researching epazote I saw a site which said pineapple is effective.  I had heard papaya was but pineapple was new to me.  Anyway this is interesting because prior to the latest infestation I was having pineapple on a daily basis as part of my smoothie regime.  I'd stopped using pineapple a month or so to getting them bad so it ties in time wise.

    So whilst my epazote is growing (you can use small plants apparently) I'll be back on my pineapple and I'll let you know if there is any improvement, I'm not taking any ovex so it will be a good test.  (Going a bit mad with them again).

    Oh and epazote is also a good treatment for tapeworm and hookworm as well as roundworm, so if you've started to think you may have those aswell, like I have, then that's a bonus.

    Stay safe folks,

    v.x

    • v98544
      v98544

      Posted

      Just a quick update.

      I've been having a small tin of pineapple each day for 3 days now and I have seen a marked improvement already.

      I'm also going to get some papaya juice to add to the armoury . Although papaya is more pricey than pineapple so it's good that it works.

      It's good that these remedies are very good for your health generally too.

      I'd be interested if anyone else could try this and let me know the results so I know it's not just a coincidence .

      Cheers.

      v.x

    • chanel144
      chanel144 v98544

      Posted

      Right, I'm going pineapple shopping tomorrow and will let you know. Thanks for sharing.

    • v98544
      v98544

      Posted

      I've been doing more research on pineapple. It's most likely the bromelain in it that is affecting the worms, so fresh is probably better than tinned.

      The heart (the hard bit in the middle has the most bromelain so be sure to eat that. Saying that I buy really cheap tinned stuff which probably contains the heart anyways so maybe that's why tinned stuff is working for me. (There may also be other stuff in it that affects worms anyway??)

      WARNING. If you are pregnant then I wouldn't have pineapple, there is a suggestion that bromelain induces labour. Although if the babes head's engaged and you want to be in labour, then it might be a good thing. This may just be speculation but I don't think it's worth taking the risk and defo ask your Doc/Midwife first.

      So to summarise get fresh pineapple if you can, or if tinned get the cheap stuff and not the rings.

  • laura27275
    laura27275 Anna196444

    Posted

    Hi Guys, im still suffering here and was just hoping someone could offer some advice or anything on how you get on with life and cope when you suffer with this.

    Im at the end of my tether with it and am struggling now with my mental health

    Any positive outlooks etc..?

    i think it would help a lot of us to hear positive things about how others cope.

    Laura x

    • Pen35970
      Pen35970 laura27275

      Posted

      Hi Laura

      I cut out a lot of sugar from my diet. Added Pumpkin seeds to lots if cereals and meals and snacking on them

      So far seems to help. As gone since May as never normally got past 3 months without re occurring. Might try tinned pineapple suggestion too!

    • laura27275
      laura27275 Pen35970

      Posted

      Thank you Pen35970,.

      thats helpful to know and very positive, fingers crossed that keeps them away.

      I think im going to try pineapple daily !

      I don't eat much sugar but could cut of what i do eat.

      I'd be interested to know how and when symptoms manifest in others with this problem as i find mine rather odd and random. In my case I tend to go months with just on and off mucus that comes with an itch then when I'm just feeling that maybe ive been being silly and its all in my head, i get that familiar wriggle down there and find a worm. Then the same will happen again. This time it was a 7 month gap with just symptoms but no worm!? odd??!!

      Laura x

    • Pen35970
      Pen35970 laura27275

      Posted

      i think this group has more chance of cracking this than any medic! like you one evening you get that sensation and i see just one. Why only one then nothing for a while. Have not taken ovex when just one and no sign of any more. No idea why that happens then go a while with nothing. Will start pineapple too xxxx

    • Elena1111
      Elena1111 Pen35970

      Posted

      Hi there, fresh pineapple better than tinned. Also papaya, papaya seeds, crashed garlic, fresh clove, wormwood and black walnut hulls, these last two i ordered online as couldn't buy in any shop in the UK. Healthy diet with no sugars or fast food and plenty of water. I seem to be expelling loads without taking ovex so that's proving effective for me. Need to be constant as this is not a one-day thing, the colon needs to be cleansed with time. I will let you guys know how it goes next week. Any luck with yours?

  • Elena1111
    Elena1111 Anna196444

    Posted

    Hi Anna, I read you post a few months ago a felt so identified, my case is exactly like yours and this gave me some comfort, as all the articles online that i had read prior were so frustrating, they didn't explain that this can be going on for years, and the reason of reinfection is the ingest of more eggs (personally i am very skeptical about this fact).

    They explain the cycle of the worm and the make the deworming procedure sound so simple... this may be the case for the rest of humans but it hasn't worked with me, my hygiene is very good and my husband doesn't have them. I have eaten plenty of pills that work short term as i can see that the worms are expelled but this is not enough for me, i have been battling for more than 6 years, being more noticeable whenever my diet was poorer and when i had some sweets. After some research I have now put together all food that i have read they have cleansing and deworming properties to keep a clean colon, and this way to make it immune and inhospitable for parasites.

    For one week i have been taken clove, fresh garlic, papaya and papaya seeds, pinneaple, wormwood and black walnut hull, pumpkin seeds lemon juice with turmeric; and yogurt to protect the good bacteria. I seem to keep expelling worms daily, which is a good sign as opposed to the one-off effect with the pills. I will take a pill in a few days to see the effect of this and i hope not to see any worm. I will continue to eat some of the food mentioned but will stop the wormwood as must be taken carefully and for no more than a week as can have adverse effects.

    I am considering to get done a colonic irrigation as well to get rid of any depositions sitting there which help parasits feel comfortable. We must have been excellent hosts!

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