Pinworm pills and medicines
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- Medicines for adults
- Medicines for children
Pinworm pills and medicines for adults
Pinworm pills are designed to remove these worms from the patient's body. Modern drugs are distinguished by an affordable price and high efficiency. Most often, a single dose of the drug is enough to get rid of enterobiasis. Most pills for the treatment of pinworms are detrimental not only to adult worms, but also to their eggs.
Why are pinworms dangerous in adults?
Pinworms cause a disease called enterobiasis. To a greater extent, this parasitic invasion is common among children, however, there are many adults in the world who are carriers of pinworms. This is due to the high viability of helminth eggs. They retain the possibility of invasion for several weeks, even if they are outside the human body. Pinworm eggs are found in room dust, on clothes, on bedding, on household items, on furniture, etc.
It is very easy to become infected with enterobiasis, especially with insufficient adherence to the rules of personal hygiene. Children are frequent carriers of pinworms, as their fully unformed digestive system is not able to cope with parasites. Adults also suffer from enterobiasis, in an increased risk zone people with low stomach acidity.
Also, any adult can catch pinworms from their own child. The transmission mechanism of the invasion is airborne or contact.
Medicines for pinworms are prescribed by a doctor after the diagnosis is confirmed. Undoubted proof of the presence of parasites in the body is the independent detection of worms in the feces. The sooner a person starts taking pinworm pills, the less harm the worms will cause to his health.
Anal itching is far from the only symptom of the presence of pinworms in the body.
These parasites cause serious health problems such as:
- Drop in immunity.
- Allergic reactions, which are most often manifested by itchy rashes on the skin.
- Disruption of the digestive process, the development of chronic gastritis.
- Inflammation of the intestines due to mechanical damage to its mucous membrane by worms.
- Chronic fatigue syndrome, decreased performance.
Women with enterobiasis often suffer from vaginitis, as worms can crawl into the vagina and cause inflammation of the genitals. Medicine knows cases when parasites entered the uterus and the peritoneal cavity, which led to serious inflammation and disruptions in the body.
Taking medication for pinworms is a prerequisite for getting rid of worms. It is impossible to destroy them without medication.
Features of taking pills in adults
Therapy of enterobiasis, like any other parasitic disease, is in the competence of an infectious disease doctor or a parasitologist. To determine the type of worms, the doctor will write the patient directions for testing. Only after a high-quality diagnosis can you pick up pills for pinworms or other parasites that will really give the desired effect.
In no case should you engage in self-treatment and purchase drugs for worms without appropriate prescriptions, since they all have a toxic effect. Moreover, the incorrect calculation of the dose, or the violation of the frequency of taking medications significantly increases the risk of side effects and complications of therapy.
Medicines for pinworms are produced in several forms, including:
- Tablets;
- Suspensions;
- Candles;
- Drops.
Adult patients are most often prescribed tablet forms of drugs. The liquid form is more suitable for treating children.
Tablets are convenient in that they are in standard dosage. This makes it easy to calculate the amount of medication you need to take to get rid of the parasites.
The course of treatment for enterobiasis can vary from 1 to 3 days. Two weeks later, the course must be repeated again, which will allow achieving a lasting effect from the therapy.
How do pinworm pills work? Medicines for pinworms have a toxic effect not only on worms, but also on the human body. However, if the dose is chosen correctly, then side effects will not occur.
Some drugs do not kill pinworms, but simply paralyze them. As a result, the worms leave the intestines alive, but immobilized.
Some drugs are harmful not only for adult pinworms, but also for their eggs. In the body of worms metabolic processes are disrupted, and they are not able to continue to carry out their vital activity.
Vermox
Vermox is a broad-spectrum anthelmintic drug based on mebendazole. With enterobiasis, it shows maximum efficiency. The drug provokes an irreversible violation of glucose utilization in the body of pinworms and interferes with the synthesis of ATP molecules.
Patients with enterobiasis are prescribed a single dose of the drug. For this, an adult needs to drink one tablet at a dosage of 100 mg. If the symptoms of the disease persist, then the course is repeated 21 days later.
Contraindications:
- Breastfeeding, pregnancy.
- Age under 2 years old.
- Liver failure.
- Hereditary lactose intolerance.
During treatment and the day after taking the drug, you should not drink alcohol-containing drinks, do not use laxatives and do not eat fatty foods.
Side effects:
- Allergic reactions: urticaria, exanthema, anaphylactic shock, angioedema, etc.
- Neutropenia.
- Digestive disorders: nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain.
- Headaches, dizziness, cramps and increased drowsiness.
- If you take the drug for a long time and in high dosages, then complications such as hepatitis, alopecia, kidney inflammation, iron deficiency anemia, eosionophilia, leukopenia are possible.
The drug is prescribed with caution for the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus.
Nemozole
Nemozole is a medicine for pinworms based on albendazole. Nemozole is available in the form of regular tablets for swallowing (200 mg and 400 mg), in the form of chewable tablets (400 mg) and in the form of an oral suspension (5 ml / 100 mg).
For the treatment of enterobiasis, 400 mg of the drug or 20 ml of suspension is prescribed once. Nemozole is taken with meals.
Contraindications:
- Pregnancy.
- Retinal diseases.
- Individual intolerance to the components of the drug.
- Disorders of the liver and the process of hematopoiesis. These conditions are the reason for prescribing the drug with extreme caution.
- Treatment with Nemozole during breastfeeding is the basis for stopping lactation.
During treatment with Nemozole, you should reliably protect yourself to prevent pregnancy.
Side effects:
- Headaches, dizziness, meningitis symptoms.
- Increased body temperature, hypertension, acute renal failure.
- Allergic manifestations, pruritus, skin rash.
- Abdominal pain, liver dysfunction with an increase in transaminase activity.
- Nausea and vomiting.
During treatment with Nemozole, hair loss is possible, which stops after the drug is discontinued.
Nourished
Vormil is a drug based on albendazole. Available in 400 mg chewable tablets. The drug has a detrimental effect on pinworms by disrupting metabolic processes in the worm's body.
For the treatment of enterobiasis, 1 tablet is prescribed 1 time per day for 3-5 days.
Contraindications:
- Pregnancy, breastfeeding.
- Hypersensitivity to drug components.
- Age up to 2 years.
You should not take the drug while preparing for pregnancy.
Side effects:
- Digestive disorders: vomiting and nausea, unstable stools, flatulence.
- Stomatitis.
- Headaches, disturbed night rest, confusion, hallucinations, convulsions.
- Deterioration of visual acuity.
- Itching, dermatitis, urticaria.
- Increased body temperature.
- Leukopenia and pancytopenia.
Throughout the treatment with Vormil, reliable contraception is required.
Dekaris
Dekaris is an anthelmintic drug based on levamisole hydrochloride. Decaris is available in the form of tablets of 150 mg and 50 mg. The drug paralyzes helminths, disrupts the course of bioenergetic processes in the body of worms. In addition, Decaris has an immunomodulatory effect, contributing to the normalization of immunity at the cellular level.
For the treatment of enterobiasis, adults are prescribed 1 tablet of 150 mg once. Decaris is taken after meals with a little water. After 1-2 weeks, the course of treatment can be repeated.
Contraindications:
- A history of drug agranulocytosis.
- Lactation.
- Age up to 3 years.
- Hepatic and renal failure, impaired hematopoietic function (with caution).
Side effects:
- Insomnia, headaches, dizziness.
- Convulsions.
- Digestive disorders with the development of dyspeptic symptoms: diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain.
- Skin rashes.
- Long-term use of the drug can provoke tremors of the limbs, agranulocytosis, leukopenia.
- After 2-5 weeks from the start of taking the drug, encephalopathy may develop.
During treatment, you should refrain from drinking alcoholic beverages.
Metovit
Metovit is taken as a therapeutic and prophylactic agent for enterobiasis. The drug helps to remove toxins from the body, has anti-inflammatory, choleretic, hepatoprotective and antioxidant effects. Long-term use of the drug contributes to the paralyzing effect on parasites.
Metovit contains silicon, vanadium, zinc, selenium, tannins, vitamins (C, A, K, E, B), as well as herbs (wormwood, calamus, horsetail, dandelion) and other components.
Adults need to take 2 capsules of the drug per day (morning and evening). The treatment and prophylactic course should be 3 months according to the scheme: 30 days of admission - 7 days of rest - 30 days of admission, etc.
Contraindication is hypersensitivity to the components that make up the drug. During treatment, you should not consume foods and drinks that stimulate fermentation in the intestines (beer, yeast bread), as well as antibiotics and other anthelmintic drugs. When using Metovit during pregnancy, medical advice is required.
No side effects have been identified.
Helmintox
Helmintox is an anthelmintic drug based on Pyrantel. It is produced in the form of tablets (125 and 250 mg) and in the form of a suspension (1 ml / 50 mg), in a bottle of 15 ml of suspension.
Helmintox provoke nerve blockade of muscles and spastic paralysis of pinworm muscles. Parasites are excreted from the body along with the feces. Helmintox is active against mature worms and their eggs.
The drug is taken once.
- Dosage for adults weighing less than 75 kg - 3 tablets of 250 mg. Dosage for adults over 75 kg - 4 tablets of 250 mg.
- The suspension must be shaken well before taking. One scoop contains 125 mg of active ingredient. Adults up to 75 kg are prescribed 6 measuring spoons of the suspension. Adults over 75 kg are prescribed 8 measuring spoons of the suspension.
Contraindications:
- Pregnancy.
- Individual sensitivity to drug components.
- Breast-feeding.
- Treatment of myasthenia gravis.
Side effects:
- Nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss.
- Headaches and dizziness, loss of consciousness, drowsiness, insomnia, hallucinations.
- Hearing impairment.
- Increased body temperature.
Against the background of treatment with Helmintox, laxatives should not be taken. Patients with renal insufficiency should be prescribed the drug with caution.
Albendazole
Albendazole is a broad-spectrum anthelmintic drug. It leads to the death of worms due to disruption of glucose utilization processes and the inability to synthesize ATP.
Albendazole with enterobiasis is prescribed 0.2 g once. After 3 weeks, the course of treatment can be repeated. The maximum daily dose for adults is 800 mg.
Contraindications:
- Individual intolerance to Albendazole.
- Lactation, pregnancy.
- Age under 6.
- Retinal diseases.
The drug is prescribed with caution in case of hematopoietic dysfunction, liver disease, and detected cysticercosis.
Side effects:
- Headaches, meningitis symptoms, dizziness.
- Epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting.
- Arrester development.
- Skin rash, skin itching and other allergic reactions.
- Leukopenia, agranulocytosis, thrombocytopenia.
- Increased body temperature.
- Increased blood pressure.
- Baldness.
There is a possibility of increased intracranial pressure, the development of hepatitis, erythema, Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
Pinworm pills and medicines for children
Enterobiasis in childhood is the most common parasitic disease. Statistics indicate that at least once in a lifetime, every child has been infected with pinworms.
To rid the child of parasitic infestation, he needs pinworm pills. The doctor should prescribe them based on the test results. Even if the parents independently found pinworms in the child's feces, they should consult a doctor. Only a specialist can correctly select the dose of the drug, determine the frequency of taking the drug, etc. It should be remembered that not all drugs for pinworms can be used in childhood. Most of them have age restrictions.
Why are pinworms dangerous for children?
Very often, enterobiasis is hidden and symptoms of the disease may be absent altogether. However, this does not mean that pinworms do not pose a health hazard to the child.
- Functional disorders of the digestive system. The intestine suffers most often. The child complains of abdominal pain, he is tormented by flatulence, constipation, diarrhea.
- Allergic reactions. Their development is provoked by toxic waste products of pinworms.
- Chronic fatigue syndrome. Children with enterobiasis get tired faster, begin to lag behind in their studies, their academic performance decreases.
- The presence of pinworms has a negative effect on the appetite of children.
- Girls with long-term enterobiasis are susceptible to the development of inflammatory diseases of the reproductive system. In addition, parasites can provoke enuresis.
- The quality of night rest is deteriorating. Sleep becomes restless, children begin to grind their teeth at night. He suffers from this significantly tooth enamel.
Migrating parasites are dangerous. They can cause pneumonia and bronchitis and can penetrate into organs other than the intestines.
How to treat pinworms in children
Pinworm pills for the treatment of children should be selected by a doctor. Almost all of them are very toxic and, if used incorrectly, can harm a child's health.
Pirantel
Pirantel is one of the most commonly prescribed medicines for the treatment of worms in children. It can be used to treat enterobiasis in children under one year old, but the dose must be strictly observed.
Contraindications to taking the drug - individual intolerance to the components that make up the drug.
Among the side effects are:
- Vomiting, nausea, digestive disorders.
- Increased body temperature.
- Allergic reactions, skin rash.
For children, Pirantel is prescribed depending on age in the following dosage:
- 3-6 years 250 mg.
- 6 to 12 years 500 mg.
- 12 years and older 750 mg.
The calculation is based on a dose of 10 mg / kg body weight. The drug is taken once. A week later, the course is repeated.
Piperazine
Piperazine is an anthelmintic drug used to treat enterobiasis. It is often prescribed for antiparasitic therapy in children under one year old.
Contraindications to taking the drug:
- Hypersensitivity to drug components.
- Organic lesions of the central nervous system.
For the treatment of enterobiasis in children, Piperazine will need to be taken for 5 days. Then take a week break and repeat the course. The number of courses can be from 1 to 3. In between taking the drug, the child should be given a cleansing enema. For this purpose, you can use a solution based on soda and boiled water. You need to take half a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate per glass. Dosage for the treatment of children of different ages (single dose):
- Children under one year old 200 mg.
- 2-3 years 300 mg.
- 4-5 years 500 mg.
- 6-8 years 750 mg.
- 9-12 years old 1 y.
- 13-15 years old 1.5 g.
Side effects:
- Nausea, abdominal pain.
- Headache.
- With caution, the drug should be prescribed for the treatment of patients with renal failure, since there are risks of neurotoxic complications.
Zentel
The drug Zentel with the main active ingredient Albendazole is prescribed for the treatment of enterobiasis in children over a year old. The drug is available in the form of a suspension and tablets.
Contraindications for admission:
- Age less than a year.
- Albendazole intolerance.
- Age under 3 years for tablet form.
- Diseases of the retina.
- Pregnancy, lactation.
Dosage:
- 2-3 years 10 ml of suspension once.
- 1-2 years 5 ml of suspension once.
- After 3 years and older 400 mg of the drug once.
Side effects:
- Skin rashes and itching.
- Nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea.
- Increased body temperature.
- Hepatitis.
- Hair loss (until the end of treatment) and other side effects typical of Albendazole.
Mebendazole
Mebendazole is a broad-spectrum drug that is most often used to treat enterobiasis in adults and children over 2 years of age.
Contraindications for admission:
- Age less than two years old.
- Pregnancy and breastfeeding.
- Hypersensitivity to Mebendazole.
- Severe violations of the liver.
Dosage:
- Children from 2 to 10 years old 25-50 mg once.
- Children 10 years of age and older 100 mg once.
If necessary, the course can be repeated after 14-28 days.
Side effects:
- Abdominal pain, nausea.
- Dizziness.
If the drug is taken for a long time and in high doses, then the development of eosinophilia, anemia, leukopenia, headache, hematuria and other side effects is possible.
Levamisole
Levamisole is not indicated for the treatment of children under 14 years of age. On pinworms and other worms, Levamisole acts in such a way that they are paralyzed and, together with feces, their intestines are excreted.
Contraindications to taking the drug:
- Age under 14.
- Hypersensitivity to Levamisole.
- Hematopoietic dysfunction.
- Diseases of the kidneys and liver.
- Pregnancy, lactation.
- Glucose intolerance.
The dosage for patients over 14 years of age is 150 mg. You need to take the drug once.
Side effects:
- Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.
- Increased heart rate.
- Dizziness, insomnia, encephalopathy.
- Allergic reactions.
Niclosamide
Niclosamide is an anthelmintic drug, the action of which is aimed at paralyzing the muscular system of parasites, as a result of which they become unable to retain themselves in the intestines and are excreted together with feces.
Niclosamide is used to treat teniasis, hymenolepiasis, diphyllobothriasis and teniarinchosis.
Contraindications for use:
- Pregnancy, breastfeeding.
- Individual intolerance to the components of the drug
The drug can be used to treat parasitic infestation in children over 2 years of age. For children under the age of two, Niclosamide can only be prescribed for health reasons.
Calculation of the daily dose:
- Children under 2 years old - 0.5 g.
- 5 to 12 years old 1.5 g.
- From 12 and older - 2-3 g.
The tablets must be chewed thoroughly or crushed beforehand. The average duration of treatment is 4 days.
Possible side effects:
- Itchy skin, hives and other allergic reactions;
- Nausea;
- Abdominal pain, diarrhea, flatulence;
- Photophobia;
- Neurodermatitis.
What rules must be followed during and after treatment?
Taking pinworm pills is not a guarantee that reinfection will not occur. In addition, the risk of invasion remains for all family members.
To prevent this from happening, you must follow some recommendations:
- Personal hygiene rules must be followed in full.
- Child's nails should be cut short.
- Bed linen should be changed as often as possible. After each wash, it must be ironed.
- Every day you need to wash yourself with soap. It is best to do this in the morning and evening.
- Any contact with animals should be limited as much as possible.
- After each visit to the toilet, after walking or being in other public places, you need to wash your hands with soap.
- Before eating raw vegetables or fruits, you need to pour boiling water over them.
- Meat and products based on it must undergo high-quality heat treatment.
- Toys must be thoroughly washed and handled. This should be done as often as possible.
All family members should receive anthelmintic treatment. After the therapy, repeated tests should be taken. Correctly selected pinworm pills will help remove parasites from the body, and compliance with the rules of prevention will prevent re-infection.
Author of the article: Danilova Tatyana Vyacheslavovna | Infectionist
Education: in 2008 received a diploma in General Medicine (General Medicine) at the Pirogov Russian Research Medical University. Immediately passed an internship and received a diploma of a therapist
