Worms!!!!!

[Blackcat31]

Maybe it is tape worms :confused:

"Occasionally, human infants and children become infected with the dog tapeworms. This happens through ingesting larvae-containing fleas."

https://www.drgreene.com/qa-articles/dog-tapeworms-children/

Was there a doctors note?

I once had a child that had a tape worm. Well actually a fish worm. I was changing his diaper and thought he had ingested yarn or some kind of string.

Nope, turns out you can get fish worm (very much like a tape worm) by eating undercooked or improperly cooked fish. The family practically lived on fish.

Not that I actually have to say this but it was soooooo gross!

[daycarediva]

I just wanted to add that this whole thread gives me the heebie jeebies.

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[Mom2Two]

I just wanted to add that this whole thread gives me the heebie jeebies.

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Yes, , so funny and soooo gross. Eww!

DCM was like "Here's my kid and his worms." , ew!

[Annalee]

This thread brought back some memories from when I was a kid (I am 50 so over 40 years ago). My grandma worked at the health dept then and every so often would bring home this liquid medicine she made all the grandkids drink because some kid had come to the health dept with worms....she was always scared her grandkids would have it, too. It was the nastiest stuff.....I can remember always spilling my cup of medicine so I wouldn't have to drink it....I was crafty like that:: My brother refuses to drink those strawberry carbonated drinks to this day because he says it taste like that worm medicine our grandma made us drink:: It was so bad!

[daycarediva]

Yes, , so funny and soooo gross. Eww!

DCM was like "Here's my kid and his worms." , ew!

YES! Why do we get all the gross stuff. I don't work in health care.

Here's my kid and his rash/vomit/diarrhea/lice/snotty nose/nasty cough/ now worms, too!? ::

This thread brought back some memories from when I was a kid (I am 50 so over 40 years ago). My grandma worked at the health dept then and every so often would bring home this liquid medicine she made all the grandkids drink because some kid had come to the health dept with worms....she was always scared her grandkids would have it, too. It was the nastiest stuff.....I can remember always spilling my cup of medicine so I wouldn't have to drink it....I was crafty like that:: My brother refuses to drink those strawberry carbonated drinks to this day because he says it taste like that worm medicine our grandma made us drink:: It was so bad!

YES! I just mentioned this thread to my mom and she was telling me about the time a few kids in my preschool class got worms. They took out the sandbox and we all had to take worm medicine. I didn't get them, but my mom made me take two doses and washed sheets and bedding. Thankfully I don't remember this. I guess worms can spread in sandboxes?

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/the_kids/2015/10/sandboxes_are_full_of_germs_can_cause_parasitic_worms.html

Let’s also not forget pinworms, the tiny little worms that live in your intestines, scurry down to your anus while you sleep, and lay their eggs there every night. Nearly half of all American kids are believed to have pinworms at any given time (and when they do, their parents usually have them too), but they’re tough to diagnose: You basically have to set an alarm for a few hours after you go to sleep and then inspect your anus for crawling worms. (No, I’m not kidding.) As Austin, Texas-based pediatrician Ari Brown wrote in her best-selling book Toddler 411, sandboxes are an excellent place for kids to catch pinworms, because pinworms cause kids’ butts to itch; then they scratch their butts, getting pinworm eggs on their fingers; then they build sandcastles studded with worm eggs.

[hwichlaz]

They are fricken PAINFUL. They deposit the eggs around your anus by sticking you with a needle like ovopositor. It HURTS. There is some serious painful anal itch. So I don't buy that half the population has them, .

[CalCare]

Really? My 9 year old had them and didn't feel anything at all. He was just shocked to find one when wiping. And we medicated, washed like maniacs, no reuse of any bedding or towels, medicated again, then it dragged on for months! He never felt a thing, no itching either.

[AmyKidsCo]

This thread is making me itchy all over...

[Snowmom]

I guess this was the WRONG thread to open during lunch.

[hwichlaz]

Really? My 9 year old had them and didn't feel anything at all. He was just shocked to find one when wiping. And we medicated, washed like maniacs, no reuse of any bedding or towels, medicated again, then it dragged on for months! He never felt a thing, no itching either.

Are you sure they were pinworms? and not another kind? Our first clue that they are in daycare has always been kids digging at their rearends because they itch. They'll scratch at them and itch in their sleep, getting the eggs under their fingernails (that's how they spread), and the irritation from the night time scratchind leads to more itching. blech

[CalCare]

Well they eventually went away which, if it was something else, I guess I would be surprised if the medication for pinworms solved it. Also other kids in his class had it and used the same meds and got rid of it. But, no, I can't say for certain since a doctor never specifically did any test on him. Dr just said: take this medication. Which wasn't cheap, more like $20 per a tiny bottle and had to buy it multiple times for the whole family :/

[CalCare]

My son's bff had lice and we didn't get that. So his mom and I were debating which was worse. Which, I have to say, I feel lice seems much more disturbing to me. Idk why maybe cause they eat the poop, not the body of the victim !!!!!

[hwichlaz]

The meds work for any intestinal worm. It paralyzes the worm so it lets go of the intestinal wall and is passed in BMs.

[kidcrazednluvingit]

Two years ago we bought a 9 week old puppy from a local pet store. 4 weeks later he vomited in my kitchen and what looked like little spaghetti noodles were wiggling around in it. There are no words. Turns out he had Roundworm. We found out most puppies get it through their moms milk but breeders are supposed to give them a series of dewormer- clearly ours didn't. The larvae are shed through poop too and can survive in soil and grass even through cold winters and bleach won't kill the larvae! If a child touches ground with larvae and then mouth they can be infected! This was such a nightmare for me.... I had to notify all my families that the puppy was sick and could be contagious. Really embarrassing! It took 8 weeks to completely Deworm him, if I would have seen this in my kids it would have put me over the edge. Absolutely disgusting- I cannot believe anyone would bring a kid to daycare with these symptoms. Haha... wow.

[hwichlaz]

Two years ago we bought a 9 week old puppy from a local pet store. 4 weeks later he vomited in my kitchen and what looked like little spaghetti noodles were wiggling around in it. There are no words. Turns out he had Roundworm. We found out most puppies get it through their moms milk but breeders are supposed to give them a series of dewormer- clearly ours didn't. The larvae are shed through poop too and can survive in soil and grass even through cold winters and bleach won't kill the larvae! If a child touches ground with larvae and then mouth they can be infected! This was such a nightmare for me.... I had to notify all my families that the puppy was sick and could be contagious. Really embarrassing! It took 8 weeks to completely Deworm him, if I would have seen this in my kids it would have put me over the edge. Absolutely disgusting- I cannot believe anyone would bring a kid to daycare with these symptoms. Haha... wow.

Right? especially when one dose of the meds and a good bath renders the child non-contagious within hours. Just treat the kid before bed and she's safe for daycare in the morning.