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2. How to prevent and treat pinworm infection in kids - AOL

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   Clinicians can check to see if the child is, in fact, infected with pinworms. Medicine to treat pinworm infections is available over the counter – look for pyrantel pamoate, which is used, for ...

3. Anthelmintic - Wikipedia

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   Anthelmintic medication is also used in mass deworming campaigns of school-aged children in many developing countries. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Anthelmintics are also used for mass deworming of livestock. The drugs of choice for soil-transmitted helminths are mebendazole and albendazole ; [ 4 ] for schistosomiasis and tapeworms it is praziquantel .

4. Mebendazole - Wikipedia

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   This includes ascariasis, pinworm infection, hookworm infections, guinea worm infections and hydatid disease, among others. [5] It has been used for treatment of giardiasis but is not a preferred agent. [6] [7] It is taken by mouth. [5] Mebendazole is usually well tolerated. [5] Common side effects include headache, vomiting, and ringing in the ...

5. Pinworm infection - Wikipedia

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   Pinworm infections commonly occur in all parts of the world. [1] [5] They are the most common type of worm infection in Western Europe, Northern Europe and the United States. [5] School-aged children are the most commonly infected. [1] In the United States about 20% of children will develop pinworm at some point. [3]

6. Albendazole - Wikipedia

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   Albendazole is a broad-spectrum antihelmintic and antiprotozoal agent of the benzimidazole type. [3] It is used for the treatment of a variety of intestinal parasite infections, including ascariasis, pinworm infection, hookworm infection, trichuriasis, strongyloidiasis, taeniasis, clonorchiasis, opisthorchiasis, cutaneous larva migrans, giardiasis, and gnathostomiasis, among other diseases.

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