Tab. NICLOSAN 500mg x 4 tabs stat in morning, on empty stomach. Then 2 tabs daily x 6 days. If H. Nana infestation. (Niclosamide) or Tab. ALBENDAZOLE 400mg. bd x 3 days.
For Threadworm infestation:
Tab. ALBENDAZOLE 400mg x bd x 3 days or Tab. MEBEX 100mg x bd x 15 days.
For round worm infestation:
Piperazine Citrate 30ml at bedtime on 3 consecutive days. Or anu of the broad spectrum antehelminthics.
As family doctors, make it a point to deworm every school going child under your care once a year.
Very important: treat all family members including servants, to eradicate the worms completely. Especially thread worms.
Antehelminthics must be given to every child with pain around umbilicus, itching around anus, anemia and failure to gain weight.
Majority of anemia’s in rural population are partly or wholly due to Hookworm infestation. So every patient of moderate to severe anemia must be given anthelmenthic.
Always repeat the antehelmenthic after 10 days to eradicate worms completely.
