Talk:Pinworm infection

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Split
Most of the content of this page has been split from Pinworm. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:54, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

wear gloves to bed ???
The article says "children should wear gloves while asleep" in the prevention section.

While there is a citation for the statement I can't seem to access it to verify this (in my opinion) dubious statement.

I mean c'mon what parent is going to tell a child to wear gloves to bed and what kid would want to do so? Also, I'm failing to understand how that would be of any benefit whatsoever other than to prevent infection from scratching throughout the night but that would do nothing to prevent or remedy the pinworm issue. Perhaps the source meant an infected child should wear gloves to protect from scratching until treatments taken have resolved the issue and the person that added this statmenet misunderstood. Kap 7 (talk) 00:36, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Often kids scratch their bum and chew their nails which results in auto innoculation and high worm burdens. Wearing gloves makes sense. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 03:35, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Remove reference [23] advice. Do recommend to disinfect kitchen and bathroom surfaces
I believe this sentence in the article is out of date advice: “Household detergents have little effect on the viability of pinworm eggs, and cleaning the bathroom with a damp cloth moistened with an antibacterial agent or bleach will merely spread the still-viable eggs.[23]”

Reference [23] is: Cook GC (September 1994). "Enterobius vermicularis infection". Gut. 35 (9): 1159–62. doi:10.1136/gut.35.9.1159. PMC 1375686. PMID 7959218.

Reference [23] actually just cites: Towards a viable approach to the threadworm problem, J Ibarra, Health School 5, 54-57, 1989 https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?journal=Health+School&volume=5&publication_year=1989&pages=54&#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DZIkMlQEwYG8J

Which is an old reference to what looks like a not very scientific publication. I couldn’t find the original source online but I did find this excerpt of the publication which looks like a newsletter and not very scientific where interestingly someone has written a letter refuting the author J Abarras separate claims about head-lice: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanna-Ibarra-2/publication/274635233_De_Caestecker_L_Ibarra_J_1989_Letters_to_Editor_on_Head_Lice_in_Schools_Health_at_School_5_3_78-79/links/5523f58a0cf22e181e72ab4a/De-Caestecker-L-Ibarra-J-1989-Letters-to-Editor-on-Head-Lice-in-Schools-Health-at-School-5-3-78-79.pdf

The NHS recommends to “disinfect kitchen and bathroom surfaces” (as of 2021): https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/threadworms/

Therefore I think modern advice is to disinfect kitchen and bathroom surfaces and that this paragraph quoted above should be removed from this article as it is out of date not scientific advice. Louiechristie (talk) 07:10, 19 July 2021 (UTC)