Dealing with seat/pinworm

[chrissie1]

I have just found 3 small white worms in a poo from my four year old. They are small and my guess was seatworms, they are about 1.5" long.

I know that they aren't a huge problem as such but prefer that she didn't have them. Both of them were wormed mid October with an Ivermectin, and I had them egg counted shortly before Christmas, both returned as <50 epg. so I didn't worm them. I don't think that I've had a >50 epg count in years, so worm according to season for bots/tapes etc. and poo pick daily.

Various drugs are mentioned on websites, including Ivermectin which I have here and can do right away, but can anyone tell me if these eggs are not detectable on a routine egg count, they seem to have a long life cycle so I wonder why they weren't eradicated with the Ivermectin in October, of course if the drug doesn't cover their larvae they will presumably have had time to mature since then. I'm also curious as to why they have suddenly been expelled now?

Thanks for any help.

 

[ofcourseyoucan]

i would worm again, and then once horse has just had a pooh put half a tube of ivermection up its bottom! thats what my vet told me to do when one horse had a very bald and itchy bottom poss through pinworm tho we didnt see any and nothing on the sellotape under the microscope.

 

[chrissie1]

Well that's a novel approach! I think I'd seek my vets blessing before doing that but can see why it might work.