TWiP 286: Pinworms keep coming back! How to stop reinfection in your home

TWiP solves the case of the adult female with a 2 year old child who develops anal irritation, but the child and the husband are fine.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula

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Recent case. Woman in 20s, lives in NYC, goes to urgent care with 3 weeks of significant watery diarrhea, not improving. Otherwise healthy, no travel, works in office in NYC, at some point prior to onset she ate at a Taco Bell. Put on twice a day medication, molecular test of stool confirms diagnosis. Don't know when, or what she ate. Trying to replenish fluid losses. Not immunosuppressed.

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