Brief Answer: Deworming Detailed Answer: Dear XXXXXXX Thanks for contacting Ayurveda with your health concern and following guidelines are noticeable and practiced in my Clinic. 1. Since worms are there, thus do go for stool test to identify the type of worm on which suitable medicine may be prescribed. 2. Since duration of worm infestation is not known, thus child with worm do suffer from weight loss [please mention about the same] PS. since the worms consume the vitamins and nutrients in your bodies for their survival, which can lead to malnutrition, low weight and anemia, so check with her body weight, vitamin/nutritional level, hemoglobin with suitable child specialist and necessary Investigations. 3. Preventive measures which can be taken at home are: i. filtered or boiled water for drinking purpose. ii. do not give undercooked or infected food, wash fruits and vegetables thoroughly. iii. avoid letting her going/playing in infected water/soil. iv. change her nappies regularly and also make sure that any family member or close relative is not suffering from the same. PS. infected fingernails can be a source of contamination, so regular checking of under fingernails in baby as well as family members is must along with habit of washing hands before meals and after toilet and go for deworming of other family members also. 4. Make powder of raw mango seed and give 120mg with yogurt or water empty stomach in morning for three days OR mix garlic and jaggery in equal amount and make a round tablet. Give 1.5gm [empty stomach] for 3 days. 5. AVOID: cucumber,long cucumber,raw fruits, potato,meat,sugar,sour foods, milk,jaggery,clarified butter for 15 days) and give walnut,PINEAPPLE, peach. 6. There after improve digestion : avoid: heavy,slimy food (initially)along with fetid odor and unpleasant sight and give old rice (1 year old but not diseased), green gram,fresh green vegetables, banana, pomegranate, garlic,ginger, raisins, black pepper,clarified butter,butter milk, regular bathing, lemon,salt,mint. PS. give chutney of 'mint' or ginger mixed with cumin seeds 7. i. Syrup Liv.52 or Syrup Livomyn 1tsf thrice a day,(1/2 hour after meals) ii. Cruminill syrup [Charak] or Krimihar liquid [Dhanwantri]: 1/2 tsf thrice a day for 3 days 8. Have you completed her Immunization schedule till date? 9. Any deprivation in feeding or personal care or health related issues of mother during pregnancy? Hope I have given due consideration in taking up your case, any suggestions are welcome. Dr. Munish Sood Naimittika

---