The number of people affected by pinworms increases. Last year hit a record and 2015 is expected to be another record year for the little white worm that often cause itching in the anus.
Have there been scratching a little extra in the butt? This may be because pinworms, because according to a survey oversold medicine as well as the number of searches on the word pinworms through the Google search engine has pinworms increased steadily since 2010 to between 2013 and 2014 to increase a record amount – by 40 percent.
And Running the worm seems to continue to increase, while non-prescription medicine been out for over a month now during the winter.
The pharmacist Ulrica Blomfeldt displays a blank part of the shelf at Cura in Varberg. This usually Vanquin, the prescription pinworms was found.
– As you can see, we have neither Vanquin 32 or 8, she says.
How to plot it has been across the country in a little more than a month since the company that delivers the medication until about a week ago has had production problems.
– There are customers, not every day but almost, which would need to have the medicine, unfortunately, says Ulrica Blomfeldt that when the medicine is finished refers customers to the doctor’s office to get written out the prescription medication.
In addition, the number of sufferers of itchy little white roundworm that lives in our intestines and lay eggs in the anus opening increased by 40 percent between 2013 and 2014.
– There has been a lot of pinworms in society, says parasitologen Johan Lindh at Uppsala University who has measured pinworms frequency by looking at the number of searches for the word pinworms on Google and how many packages of medication sold.
– And when you look at what happened last year, it has grown a lot and in 2014 was known as a record year with a lot of pinworms, he said.
John Lindh estimate the number of affected here in Sweden to about 200,000 each year, mostly children. But all indications are that more and more affected by the harmless but nasty little worm that can cause itching in the anus and insomnia because it is during the night itching worst.
– I think that part has to do with it is pretty much pinworms in society and that it has increased slowly slowly, year after year, and now it’s like we have reached a critical point. For the more it is getting pinworms, it is also more that can infect. Then there are also children who usually get pinworms, and the more children there are in preschool or leisure, the greater the risk or chance to get pinworms, says Johan Lindh parasitologist at Uppsala University who believe that 2015 will be another record year.
Can I do anything to prevent infection?
– Yes, soap and water, he said.
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