Anonymous wrote:Pinworms are hard to get rid of.
Clean every inch of your home. Wash everything in hot water and hot dryer. Bag up whatever can't be washed. Launder night clothes and sheets every day (don't shake the sheets). Shower morning and night, morning is most important and get your bottom cleaned real well. Then be sure and clean your fingernails well. Rub vaseline around the anus area at night to trap the eggs and keep them from becoming airborne. (Yes you can get pinworms through the air!) Open up the curtains and let sunlight in.
Everyone in the house needs to take the Pin-X and then again in week or so. Possibly again.
Eat pumpkin seeds and pineapple. Stay away from sugary and carb loaded things that will feed the worms. If you have constipation, make sure you take something to make you go. Tea tree oil suppositories are available on Amazon.
Pumpkin seeds you say? This is the Larla-level insider reference point at Jezebel. Everyone knows this story. It's something you'll never forget.
From: Jezebel (
http://jezebel.com/5664007/10-of-the-the-grossest-stories-youll-ever-read)
The Pumpkin Seed Story, by Becky
My junior year of undergrad, I had a deplorable diet. Every now and then [the convenience store near my dorm] would get packages of pumpkin seeds, which I loved to eat while writing papers. One day when I was shopping I noticed that they had restocked. Since they were prone to running out quickly, I decided to go ahead and buy all of the pumpkin seeds they had. This in itself wasn't bad. What was bad was
that in a fury of writing deadlines, I ate all of them. I had pumpkin seeds for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, as a midnight snack while doing research.
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