Mebendazole usually comes with patient directions. Read them carefully before using this medicine.
No special preparations or other steps (for example, special diets, fasting, other medicines, laxatives, or enemas) are necessary before, during, or immediately after taking mebendazole.
Mebendazole tablets may be chewed, swallowed whole, or crushed and mixed with food.
It is important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits, especially in infections in which high doses are needed. This is to make sure that the infection is cleared up completely and to allow your doctor to check for any unwanted effects.
If your symptoms do not improve within a few days, or if they become worse, check with your doctor.
Mebendazole (me-BEN-da-zole) belongs to the family of medicines called anthelmintics (ant-hel-MIN-tiks) . Anthelmintics are medicines used in the treatment of worm infections.
Mebendazole is used to treat:
* Common roundworms (ascariasis);
* Hookworm infections (uncinariasis);
* Pinworms (enterobiasis; oxyuriasis);
* Whipworms (trichuriasis); and
* More than one worm infection at a time.
This medicine may also be used for other worm infections as determined by your doctor.
Mebendazole works by keeping the worm from absorbing sugar (glucose). This gradually causes loss of energy and death of the worm.