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Sent to Health Experts June 06, 2006 3:48 p.m.

my 2 yr old grandaughter had PDA when a baby(patent ductus arteriosis) was surgically fixed.has never had any complications.she has now been running a temp for a month on and off, and was diagnosed with pinworms.is there ANY possibility of pinworms migrating from the GI tract to her bloodstream and then to the healed PDA????

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June 06, 2006 4:12 p.m. (23 minutes and 39 seconds later)

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I have found no evidence that pinworms can use the blood stream for any part of their lifecycle. Their entire life uses the gastro-intestinal tract from the mouth to the anal opening. Treatment is straightforward and I imagine that she has been given some medicine? The rest of the family should be treated too.

There is no possibility that pinworms would impact on the PDA site. I hope you can be reassured by that.

Does this answer your question? Has she been showing any symptoms/murmurs that are causing you any concern?

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