White worms in the feces of a child

You noticed that your preschooler starts scratching in the area of ​​the anus in the evening, then you need to examine his bowel movement. If such a symptom appears, then most likely, the child in the stool, you will find white grains. These pinworms are parasites that are more often found in children, because in a kindergarten or for a walk they closely communicate with each other, take in their mouth other people's toys, and hygiene rules for kids are not fully known. You can get pinworms through bed linens and clothes, door handles and even through the dust where their eggs can be. Consider how small white worms appear in the feces of a child, and how to get rid of them.

A female specimen can be 8-13 mm long, and a male individual is even smaller - 2-5 mm. Once in the body of the baby through the mouth, the female pinworm mates with the male and leaves in the large intestine to accumulate the substances necessary for reproduction. After 4 weeks she leaves the anal opening, in order to lay a large number of eggs near the anus (up to 10-15 thousand). After 4-6 hours they will ripen and will be ready to repeat the same cycle of existence in the human body.

If you saw white worms in the feces of a child, it means that the helminth female has passed its life cycle and has grown a new generation of parasites.

In the case of a recent infection, the baby is concerned about the itching near the anus. If the pinworms in the child's body settled long ago, the baby itches intensely and constantly. There are other symptoms: as a rule, children complain of weakness, headache, abdominal pain, nausea, they do not eat well, and girls can have vaginal discharge.

How to get rid of pinworms?

If your child has these symptoms, and you found white worms in the feces of a child, then immediately it is necessary to begin treatment. Against pinworms, doctors usually prescribe one of these drugs: Piperazine, Pirantel, Mebendazole, Levamisol, etc. The doctor must determine the dosage of the medicine for your child. An obligatory condition during treatment is the observance of personal hygiene. Take care that the baby constantly washed his hands, did not lick his fingers, toys. In the morning and in the evening, it is necessary to wash the crotch and genital area. Change your child twice a day underwear and make sure to iron it with a hot iron. As often as possible, do wet cleaning.

For kids, the folk methods of fighting pinworms are well suited:

• drink a decoction of chamomile, wormwood, centaury, tansy;
• use at night chopped onions or garlic, and children less (up to 5 years) better to offer garlic broth;
• eat in the morning on an empty stomach a raw pumpkin seed;
• do babies enema.

But the white impregnations in the feces of a child are not always parasites. This can be a consequence of inflammation in the intestines - for example, candidiasis, dysbiosis. There is another reason for the appearance of grains in the feces of the baby - particles of undigested food: for example, grains, seeds. You just need to observe the behavior of the child and his chair for several days to prevent infection with parasites.

If you notice white grains or filaments in the feces of a newborn baby, then in this case it should be borne in mind that the chair of the youngest children has its own characteristics. After all, in the first year of life the digestive system of babies was not completely formed. Often in the feces of a crumb that is on artificial feeding, there may be white mucus if the food is poorly absorbed by the baby.