We try to avoid establishments where there are dogs or cats running around. No dogs or cats = no hookworms. Never had an issue in 37 years.Originally Posted by farmer
We try to avoid establishments where there are dogs or cats running around. No dogs or cats = no hookworms. Never had an issue in 37 years.
I believe this might have been for my benefit? I was unfortunate enough to get hook worm in both of my feet on Negril Beach in early Nov. 2015. We are booked to go back to Negril in April 2016 so I am glad to hear that I can buy Al-Bendazole in Jamaica over the counter. This is what I finally took to rid my last batch but in Canada it is not FDA approved so it took me two full weeks before I received treatment here in Canada. I appreciate that forums like this one are so full of information to help travelers like myself, keep the information coming
I picked up some sort of infection in my foot my holiday winters of 2013 and 2014. Now I always wear sandals when walking the beach as the treatment kept me out of the water for ten days each time. Lots of pooping and peeing happening on the beach.
If you are worried about something, do something about it. If there is nothing you can do, why worry!
I also picked this up in Feb 2013 on the beach and so did my daughter's friend, I am assuming we got it by Rooms (Sunny Side bar) there where a lot of dogs and cats there. I got treated in Negril while I was there and it went away in a few days. My daughters friend went home a week before me and the Doctors in Canada that she saw where not certain how to treat it, I sent her the name of the medication but its not sold in Canada. We where back to rooms this past Nov. and this time my daughter got it. Unfortunately she didn't develop any systems until she returned home. She is still dealing with it. Again we stayed at Rooms and there were a lot of puppies next door at Sunny Side bar and cats. We are going back in Feb to Rooms but I think I will keep my sandals on.
