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If you take pinworm medicine, and you don't have pinworms, will it cause health problem?
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No it wiil not: Treatment for pin worms is 1 tab of vermox and often we treat the whole family and rpt 1 tab dose after 2 weeks hs no ill effects and no health problems.
Answered 7/4/2013
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