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worm Doses 1980s and 1990s

  • 06-08-2016 9:28pm
    #1
    lamb stew
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    For those who grew up in the 80s and early 90's yucky worm doses couldnot be avoided. if you had them you had to take it, and if you didnt have them you still had to take a dose every few months. I remember sometimes having to take a once off strawberry milkshake( not bad tasting and the only kind of milkshake i had as a kid :) ), I also remember once or twice having to take a horrible bottle over a week or 10 days or so, think the doctor prescribed that one. Anyone remember what they were called?. My young fellow has worms at the moment, and got a thing called vemox. its basically just one spoon of either liquid or tablet form, and a repeat dose in 3 weeks. Kids have it so easy these days. It brought back memories of childhood, but cant remember the name of the stuff we had to take back then .


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  • #2
    echo beach
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    The older treatments contained piperazine. Pripsen powder also contained a laxative to expel the dead worms quickly. Whoever convinced you it was a 'strawberry milkshake' did good work as most people thought it was foul tasting. With the arrival of the more effective and easier to take mebendazole (vermox) it fell out of use and isn't available anymore.

    With improved hygiene and living conditions, worm infestations aren't as common and many children will never be 'wormed'. There is some suggestion that having worms could protect against asthma and other allergic conditions. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/02/what-do-worms-have-do-asthma

    In tropical countries where worms are a more serious issue leading to several dangerous diseases the standard treatment is ivermectin, whose discovery lead to a Nobel prize for Irishman William Campbell. http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1005/732481-william-c-campbell-nobel-medicine/


  • #3
    lamb stew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭lamb stew


    echo beach wrote: »
    The older treatments contained piperazine. Pripsen powder also contained a laxative to expel the dead worms quickly. Whoever convinced you it was a 'strawberry milkshake' did good work as most people thought it was foul tasting. With the arrival of the more effective and easier to take mebendazole (vermox) it fell out of use and isn't available anymore.

    I thought it was nice. da parents probably told me when I was younger, but I remember getting a bottle of medicine once or twice , it was like the colour of either red lemonade or darker, but I would have to take maybe a few spoons a day over 7 or 10 days, and that crap was vile. atleast milkshake was was a once off.


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