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Do you know if there are dissolveable tablets to treat threadworm?

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Dr. Oscar Novick answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Pin-x: This is a chewable tablet that will treat pinworms or threadworms. There is also a liquid form available

Dr Husar agreed

Answered 7/8/2014

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Took mebendazole threadworm medicine for 3days. and got better but not completely cured. what medicne should i take ?it came of my face.

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The last 2 days i found one of my long hairs mixed in 2yo stool. Very long, 6in.Could it be a threadworm?I just don't know how it got there. Dangerous?

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If I thought i saw a threadworm in poop,would it pull out easily with a tweezer or would it just break apart? Would there be only one or 2 or would there be more? Could you get these worms if no one left home for several months? No kids/pets in home?

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After wk of abdo discomfort, diarrohea I found threadworm in poo. Stool results normal? Took worm med yesterday and symptoms persist? Advice.

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Hello doctor. I am a male. I think a sperm just went to my anus. What will happen to the sperm, will it meet threadworm and it eggs and fertilize it and i will die or what. Please explain, thank you?

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