How can I help eliminate intestinal worms?

How can I help eliminate intestinal worms?
Worms are parasitic organisms that require a host to live in, and they obtain their food supply from the host, or at the expense of the host. In this case, that host could be you! Worms, particularly threadworms, are very common in Australia, and children are at greater risk of developing a worm infestation.

Threadworms

Threadworms, also known as pinworms, live in the human intestine and around the anus. They are small, very thin white worms that grow to around 13 millimetres in length, and to the naked eye, they look like small threads of white cotton, and this is where they get their name from.

Threadworms are the most common type of worm infection found in Australia. Children, particularly pre-school and school-aged children, are more susceptible to threadworm infections, although adults can easily become infected. Usually, if one person in the household has a worm infection, it is more than likely that other members of the family will also become infected.

Worms are spread directly by children (or adults) who scratch their bottoms and then carry the worm eggs back to their mouth with their hands, or indirectly, in food, dust, or other articles of bedding or clothing. The eggs can survive for up to two weeks outside the body. Around 4 weeks after the eggs are swallowed, they hatch in the small intestine and the female travels down the digestive tract and exits the body via the anus to lay a new batch of eggs on the surrounding skin, often at night.

Helping eliminate intestinal worms

Threadworms do not go away by themselves, and you cannot build up immunity to them, so they need to be treated in order to eliminate them from the body. Traditional anthelmintic herbs such as Wormwood and Black walnut contain substances that help eliminate intestinal worms from the body.

Worms have no means of storing energy, so they need to eat almost continuously to meet their metabolic needs and any disruption in this process results in energy depletion. Worms will also die if they become paralysed and temporarily lose their ability to maintain their position in the digestive tract.

  • Starving them, affecting their ability to take up glucose for energy or,

  • Paralysing them, so they lose traction in the digestive tract

Herbal support

Wormwood has a long history of traditional use in Western herbal medicine (WHM) as a vermifuge to help remove intestinal threadworms from the body. Black walnut (green or unripened) is also traditionally used in WHM as a vermifuge to remove intestinal threadworms from the body. Black walnut is traditionally used in WHM as a laxative to relieve constipation. See Wormwood Clear.

Products you may be interested in

all products antioxidants b vitamins best selling products bones & joints cardiovascular health children's health drawn from goodness energy eye health gut & liver hair skin & nails home page immunity latest special offers magnesium make this winter golden memory & concentration men's health metabolics multivitamins muscle health new & improved products nutritional oils nutritionals pain & inflammation pregnancy & reproductive health stress, sleep & mild anxiety trending products vegetarian & vegan women's health article Children's Health Liver & Digestion
Vegan

Children's Magnesium Care

$22.95

Vegan

Children's Multi Care

$35.95

Vegan

Children's Immune Care

$36.00

Vegan

Elderberry Echinacea & Olive Leaf

$40.00

Vegan

Zinc Forte + C

$38.00

Vegan

Children's Calm Care

$37.50

Vegan

Children's Probiotic 15 Billion

$50.95