worm Doses 1980s and 1990s

lamb stew

For those who grew up in the 80s and early 90's yucky worm doses could not 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 .

The_Valeyard

Awww, I thought this would be about the legendary game that was 'Worms'

Shame on you OP!!

jimmy blevins

There's an urban legend that slim fast gives you worms.

lamb stew

jimmy blevins wrote: »

There's an urban legend that slim fast gives you worms.

i heard that alrite

waraf

I grew up in the eighties and we never took anything for worms nor did I ever hear of any of my mates taking anything for worms. Is this some sort of farmer thing??

Donald Trump

lamb stew wrote: »

For those who grew up in the 80s and early 90's yucky worm doses could not 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 .

Did your oul' fella just used to dose you with Panacur SC for the craic?

He was a gas man back in the day. Used to tell stories about it down the pub. We had some laugh at the state of you

Look on the bright side though, no fear of you getting any worms

Donald Trump

jimmy blevins wrote: »

There's an urban legend that slim fast gives you worms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p2JN4WuEGw

lamb stew

waraf wrote: »

I grew up in the eighties and we never took anything for worms nor did I ever hear of any of my mates taking anything for worms. Is this some sort of farmer thing??

the townies just lived with the worms because they were parasites themselves, they'd have their hand down the front of their track suit pants anyway so it didnt matter

billie1b

lamb stew wrote: »

they'd have their hand down the front of their track suit pants anyway so it didnt matter

Thats from crabs not worm, the country girls up for the weekends gave them to us

Sir Osis of Liver.

An acquaintance of mine doesn't go to the doctor.
He's a farmer and gets the vet to treat any personal medical issues he may have(seriously).

He told me he takes a cattle worm dose once a year.Really clears him out.

What the actual fcuk?

XR3i

when i was in 4th class one of the lads got really sick during the day and when the doctors came down they removed a 4 metre long tape worm from him, and the tapeworm was reeely agressive and it attatcked the doctor and the school-principal and ate the german teacher alive

Canis Lupus

I got worms when I was travelling in Africa. Speaking no French it was fun trying to get medicine from the chemist.

lamb stew

so none of yee or none of yere kids or brother or sisters etc never got worms when they were small, and the townies got the crabs instead, suppose none of yee or yere kids never had nits neither

5starpool

I was born in the mid 70's and grew up in the country and never took anything for worms. No idea what you are on about OP.

LETHAL LADY

I've heard of children having worms and the itchy arse that ensues, but I can't say I've ever heard of a dose being given en masse for it.
Are you mixing up the polio vaccine usually given through a sugar cube?

Canis Lupus

I grew up both in the big smoke and then the country. We got wormed.

Canis Lupus

If I remember the liquid used to be a weird slightly fluorescent green but I might be mistaking that with something else.

Sir Osis of Liver.

I grew up in 70's/80s and never got a worm dose.

Did they pump the dose up your ring?

lamb stew

no i did not grow up in Africa, I only made the townie remark because of the farmer remark which i am not one, and who ever told the story about the vet worming the farmer is telling lies

lamb stew

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

I grew up in 70's/80s and never got a worm dose.

Did they pump the dose up your ring?

ha ha your hilarious

Ruu

Can remember ads about preventing scour.

Sir Osis of Liver.

lamb stew wrote: »

no i did not grow up in Africa, I only made the townie remark because of the farmer remark which i am not one, and who ever told the story about the vet worming the farmer is telling lies

That would be me and I'm not telling lies.

G'wan ya big wormy African ya.

lamb stew

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

That would be me and I'm not telling lies.

G'wan ya big wormy African ya.

report the vet so, i dare ya

Outlaw Pete

Yeah, I remember taking some weird concoction called Pripsen? It was a purple drink and also some small tablets for thread worms. Might have been what fcuked up my microbiota. Who knows what that crap does. I don't trust anything that we put in our bodies to only kill what it's been taken to kill. Plus, I once heard that the CIA ... damn, someone's at the door.

lamb stew

im not saying every child back in the day was dosed regularly , but I remember being dosed. I probably didnt have them most of the time, but i know i had them once or twice. My wife grew up in the town and she was dosed aswell. just having a few pints at the moment with the mates and they also had worms when they were kids and were routinely dosed. I suppose it was a parenting choice like a clatter, or making their kids go to mass every sunday

wexford awake

ah worms. had them 2 or 3 times myself and I will never forget the itch. I would have been wormed every now and again too. I remember mom running around the house after us with the dose threatening us with '' wait until your father gets home from work''. lamb stew you might have been dosed for them so often because maybe your siblings had them and usually all the children would take the vile stuff aswell as the child who had the worms. That's the way it was in our house anyway. One of us would nearly always have them. I do remember the after xmas worm dose because everytime we would eat more sweets than usual mom would arrive out of the chemist with bottles of stuff.:D

taytobreath

how does one acquire these lovely guests

DEFTLEFTHAND

In the late 90s we were inoculated for MMR and Meningitis. I never remember being wormed. I've always associated such a treatment for a dog or a cat, not man.

_Brian

Grew up in the 70/80's and never heard of anyone getting treated for worms.

We did get milk of magnesia every Saturday evening to "keep ya right"

Deer

I had a few worm doses because my filthy manky brother would get worms and mum would have to dose me too. It was some raspberry concoction - easily the vilest thing I have ever taken. I remember bawling my eyes out while she tried to get me to drink it. Even now I have trouble with powder in liquids.

I gave my daughter a worm dose when she got them years ago. When I saw them in her nappy I drove up to my mum nearly crying for help (I've grown up a bit since then ). It was just a tablet though.

Milk of magnesia was also disgusting but they have changed that so it's minty now and not half as bad as it was.

Daenarys

I never had worms but my primary school principal would send letters to the parents along with the book list before school started stating worm and nit season was about to kick off. My crazy mother bought into that prevention BS and forced us to drink that raspberry powdered muck. :mad:

Widdershins

A friend of mine got some kind of worm when she was in Africa, that destroyed one of her eyes and left it blind ,and she can't stand the sunlight to this day ..it causes her a lot of pain. We have it easy in Ireland

The Raptor

I had a dream a few weeks ago that I was so badly infected that I threw up worms.

It was a nightmare dream really.

Poor Uncle Tom

Ruu wrote: »

Can remember ads about preventing scour.

Cheno Unction, quare name but great sthuff.....

shamrock2004

lamb stew wrote: »

im not saying every child back in the day was dosed regularly , but I remember being dosed. I probably didnt have them most of the time, but i know i had them once or twice. My wife grew up in the town and she was dosed aswell. just having a few pints at the moment with the mates and they also had worms when they were kids and were routinely dosed. I suppose it was a parenting choice like a clatter, or making their kids go to mass every sunday

I remember this alright. It was disgusting to drink. Perhaps having the worms would have been better than drinking that pink liquid. Ill ask the mother what it was called.

PandaPoo

I had worms once when I was younger, but I never told anyone or got treated. They're gone now though so they either went away or theirs currently destroying my insides

Your Face

Animals.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

That would be me and I'm not telling lies.

G'wan ya big wormy African ya.

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

An acquaintance of mine doesn't go to the doctor.
He's a farmer and gets the vet to treat any personal medical issues he may have(seriously).

He told me he takes a cattle worm dose once a year.Really clears him out.

What the actual fcuk?

Yeah, probably Ivermectin/ Ivomec. I've never taken it but I know people who have. We use Ivomec on horses and I know lads who have used it for afflictions of the venereal kind.

Absolutely nothing harmful about it. I am pretty sure it's a human medicine too. Just adjust the dose like.

Sure people take bute and ketamine at music festivals and on the weekend, those are drugs for horses.

Irish Guitarist

I think your user name explains this. In the eighties the ads on RTE were heavily aimed towards farmers. Many of these ads were about worming livestock.

I've never in my life heard of a human taking anything for worms however and I was born in 1976.

mud

I was never wormed but my friend's family were. She has vivid memories of being lined up with her siblings and having to swallow some disgusting gunk.

lamb stew

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I think your user name explains this. In the eighties the ads on RTE were heavily aimed towards farmers. Many of these ads were about worming livestock.

I've never in my life heard of a human taking anything for worms however and I was born in 1976.

Its got nothing to do with the times.Worms are still doing the rounds today, probably more than ever.Apparently headlice are becoming a major problem, much more so than years ago. The reasons I dont know. None of our family ever got headlice, and when I tell my mates that they dont believe me.
See back then parents had no access to the internet like today so our parents generation probably carried forward that tradition thinking children were prone to getting worms alot like dogsdo.When they were kids themselves they probably had to deal with more dangerous worms like Rondworms and Tapeworms because of lack of sanitation etc so to be dosed was the done thing. Luckily our generation down only have to deal with threadworms, which cause no harm only for an itchy butt.

My sister in law works in a pharmacy and firstly she said that worm doses are flying out the door, and secondly parents are coming in hysterical finding worms in their childs crap.
When my son had them last week both me and the wife were as calm as breeze, cuz we both remember having them and being treated for them.
Guaranteed if yee all go home and ask yere parents did yee or yere bros and sisters ever have them or ever got a dose, then yee may be pleasantly surprised.
Back then alotof parents thought eating alot of sugary foods caused worms, but in fact they just got them off other kids at school etc.A major precaution you take with these is you have to clen the house top to bottom, sheets towels in the washing machine, our parents wouldnt have had that info back then so we were probably reinfecting ourselves alot. To understand the threadworm lifecycle google it. Im afraid if most of yee have kids, yee will encounter threadworms At some stage. I just hope that they are not too afraid to tell yee

jimbobaloobob

lamb stew wrote: »

For those who grew up in the 80s and early 90's yucky worm doses could not be avoided.

I can get the taste of it as i read your post

Vinculus

I wonder if worms have to takes doses of medicine to rid the humans from their digestive systems.

Rosie Rant

I remember loving the taste of the worm dose, maybe the flavour had improved by the mid '90s. My brothers and sisters had to be treated as well and the house was scrubbed from top to bottom. Sheets and towels were scrubbed as well. I'll never forget that maddening itch!

lamb stew

Yeah I quiet liked the milkshake. There was no going to the local chipper for a milk shake back then. It was the dose in a bottle that I couldn't stand. I had to take a few spoons a day for a a week or more.

For Forks Sake

lamb stew wrote: »

Yeah I quiet liked the milkshake. There was no going to the local chipper for a milk shake back then. It was the dose in a bottle that I couldn't stand. I had to take a few spoons a day for a a week or more.

I'm beginning to think that you may actually be a farmyard animal that has gained internet access?

Grandeeod

Worms and nits in the 80s. Had both and got treated for both.

In 2016, both are still around and as common as ever. Only if you have kids will you appreciate this.

Lyclear and Vermox are your friends.

lamb stew

Grandeeod wrote: »

Worms and nits in the 80s. Had both and got treated for both.

In 2016, both are still around and as common as ever. Only if you have kids will you appreciate this.

Lyclear and Vermox are your friends.

Granddeeod, any idea was was the name of your friends in the 80s

Grandeeod

lamb stew wrote: »

Granddeeod, any idea was was the name of your friends in the 80s

Louie Lyclear and Vinnie Vermox. Both from Finglas.

Great lads!

Fr_Dougal

Next you'll be telling us you used to put 10-10-20 on your cornflakes, OP.

...And Justice

I really want to scratch me hole after reading this thread.