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    Read user comments about the side effects, benefits, and effectiveness of Reese''s Pinworm Medicine oral.

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    Condition: Pinworm Infection
    8/1/2018 5:32:12 PM

    Reviewer: Demanding purchaser, 65-74 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)

    Effectiveness

    Current Rating: 1

    Ease of Use

    Current Rating: 1

    Satisfaction

    Current Rating: 1

    Comment:
    The treatment has given me more misery than I had to begin with!!! Since taking the product, I am now bothered constantly, instead of the former occasional itch. I think the product just stirred them up and irritated them!!!! It is worse than having done nothing at all!!!!

    Condition: Pinworm Infection
    7/22/2018 8:07:02 PM

    Reviewer: MsJackson, 45-54 on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)

    Effectiveness

    Current Rating: 5

    Ease of Use

    Current Rating: 5

    Satisfaction

    Current Rating: 5

    Comment:
    I took this with medication, the diarrhea was hell, nausea, loss of appetite but I followed it up with Diatomaceous earth for 3 weeks afterwards. The DE will keep the remaining larva from maturing by drying them out. I lost about 11 ibs from the ordeal but no recurrence of the infestation.

    Condition: Pinworm Infection
    6/30/2017 9:51:40 AM

    Reviewer: 45-54 on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)

    Effectiveness

    Current Rating: 1

    Ease of Use

    Current Rating: 1

    Satisfaction

    Current Rating: 1

    Comment:
    I'm on my 3rd dose and have been using strict hygiene procedures. It helps for about a week with the night time itching after a dose, but doesn't completely get rid of the worms. It works by paralyzing them and then you're supposed to pass them. But it doesn't affect the eggs so a second dose is needed to paralyze the newly hatched worms that haven't laid eggs yet. I don't ... Show Full Comment

    Condition: Pinworm Infection
    3/12/2017 4:51:40 PM

    Reviewer: ihatepinworms, 19-24 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)

    Effectiveness

    Current Rating: 1

    Ease of Use

    Current Rating: 4

    Satisfaction

    Current Rating: 1

    Comment:
    It seemed to relieve the itch for a day or two, but I have more pinworms than ever even after a second dose.

    Condition: Pinworm Infection
    5/29/2016 9:03:51 AM

    Reviewer: Female (Caregiver)

    Effectiveness

    Current Rating: 1

    Ease of Use

    Current Rating: 5

    Satisfaction

    Current Rating: 1

    Comment:
    Wow garbage wish I would have read these reviews before I paid so much

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