DearCustomer

Thank you for writing to just answer with your health concern.

Young children are often the ones who get them, usually in day care. Do you have a grandchild coming in to your home? Also vacuum the furniture, if you have not done this.

Additionally, you could have rid yourself of them, but have rectal itching remaining. A way to check to see if you do have pinworms for sure still is to place a piece of cellophane type over the area at night. The article below explains the exact procedure.

If there are no eggs or pinworms and the rectal area is irritated, your may want to try a hydrocortizone cream to the area.

The article below has several pages, but I am giving you a link to the page with the mediacations. If you have tried the medications that you can buy over the counter, you may need to see your physician for a prescription medication. See: http://www.medicinenet.com/pinworm_infection/article.htm

and

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/pinworm/factsht_pinworm.htm -Has specific guidelines for removing pinworms from the home.

If you find you are having difficulty with rectal itching and don't have pinworms, hemorroids and constipation, yeast infections are some other problems that can cause itching.

I hope this helps.

If you have questions or comments, please reply so that we can address them.

I would suspect your grand kids may be bringing them in. They can be tested with the cellophane tape.

Do you have any other questions?

Have you taken the prescription medication yet? That may be what you have to do. Maybe have to have your sofa professionally cleaned? Also, read the second link to see recommendations, just in case there is anything you missed.

This must be really frustrating for you. Yes they can be in the carpets and they will need vacuuming, although I suspect you have done that.

I am sorry, but there are no further recommendations, excepting if you missed anything such as this:
To clear the infection, the anal area should be washed frequently with warm, soapy water to remove and kill the eggs. Underwear should be changed at least twice a day and washed in hot, soapy water. Fingernails need to be cut close and kept clean. Areas that have a lot of hand contact around the house can be cleaned frequently with soapy water where possible or cleaned with a vacuum cleaner. The toilet seat can be cleaned often as well. Eggs from fingers, fingernails, clothes, bedding, toys and even the air (after shaking bedding and clothing) can re-infect and start another round of Pinworm. Eggs can usually survive up to three weeks, but are killed by sunlight and ultraviolet light.

Additionally information from wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinworm

The sunlight and ultraviolet light. I think cleaning surfaces with alcohol and bleech will help. I don't know of any thing you can spray, although you could spray alcohol and bleech, but of course not on all of your furniture.

May be look at the recommended medications and make sure these are the ones your doctor has given you.

All the web sites, and every since my nursing career, I've never heard that a bug bomb will help. So truthfully, I don't know for sure, but it seems if it did this would be mentioned somewhere.

I think spraying the alcohol is a good idea, I'm sure that will kill them if touched by the alcohol.