The highest clearance rates are obtained by combining mebendazole or albendazole with ivermectin. Ivermectin's safety in children under and pregnant women has not yet been established. People with diarrhea may be treated with loperamide to increase the amount of drug contact with the parasites. Mebendazole is 90% effective in the first dose, and albendazole may also be offered as an anti-parasitic agent. Adding iron to the bloodstream helps solve the iron deficiency and rectal prolapse. Difetarsone is also an effective treatment. During the 1940s, the most effective treatment was , the crude sap of ficus species now known as ficain, however at the time it was not widely available. Hexylresorcinol, a common antihelminthic at the time, was an alternate treatment given by retention enema in a dilution of 1:1000 with warm tap water, and produced marginally effective results.
Trichuriasis
Trichiasis
Trichomoniasis
Taeniasis
Trichinosis
Naegleriasis
Helminthiasis
Gnathostomiasis