“End of maskmedicin – again”

“The over-the-counter medication against threadworm, which affects mostly children in the preschool years, is almost exhausted, at the pharmacy, type SVT Västerbotten. Already in the autumn was the lack of the only over-the-counter medicine that exists, and now it is again backordered and will not be in stock until the end of the summer.”

“– Explanation for that the medicine is over, there is a shortage of the active substance pyrvin of the manufacturers, “says Magnus Frisk, presstalesperson at Apoteket AB”

“Pinworms are a tarmparasit which are harmless and occur most often in children in the preschool age. The most common symptom is the itch in the butt, especially in the evening and the night, then springmasken is most active. It spread through the people get the eggs in his mouth. By washing your hands after using the toilet and before food limited spread.”