Now You Know

There's one thing that I learned from class the other day that might actually be useful to all the mommies who have little kids. It's about parasites. Our professor told us that usually when a child has a parasite or worms in the body, the child would be restless (sometimes at night because some worms are nocturnal), the child would have a bigger belly and you would catch your child scratching his/her behind. When you see these signs, go to your doctor and ask if anti-helmintics/parasites/worms drugs can be given to the child. If the doctor agrees, he might ask you to give your child some Benadryl first. No, it's not that your child has allergies or cough, the Benadryl is to sedate the parasites in your child's body before you give the anti-parasites drugs. You might think it's weird why there is a need to sedate the parasites. Actually, it's a very good idea to do this if you don't want to see worms coming out of your child's mouth or nose instead of his anus. Not sedating the worms would mean that they're active and if they're active and you give the meds, tendency for the worms is to get out of the body at the nearest "exit" that they can find. So it's better to sedate them so they could "quietly" come out of the usual "exit". LOL!