188 kids complain of uneasiness after taking deworming tablets

About 188 children were on Wednesday taken to hospitals in Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana and Chhattisgarh as they complained of uneasiness after being administered with deworming tablets on the occasion of National Deworming Day.

About 100 children complained of discomfort after they consumed the tablets and had to be taken to the Sadar Hospital in Biharsharif in Nalanda district.

In Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district, 58 schoolchildren were given treatment when they complained of nausea, after consuming dewarming tablets. “The children of a private school in Chidawa fell ill, after consuming the tablets, so they were taken to a local hospital. They were discharged after treatment,” Dr SN Dholpuriya, Chief Medical and Health Officer of Jhunjhunu, said. He added the tablets were given to children of Class 6 to 10. “All students are fine now,” he said.

“Eighteen children were taken to a government hospital in Sonipat, Haryana, when they complained of illness after taking the tablets. Of them, only three had pain in the abdomen. The rest were fine,” said Dr Jaswant Punia, Sonipat Civil Surgeon.

“It is normal for some to have such reaction when a large number of children are administered with the tablets. Sometimes, a child may have a large number of worms in the body and this happens. But there is nothing to worry,” he said.

In Chhattisgarh, 12 schoolchildren of two schools in Janjgir Champa district fell ill after consuming deworming Albendazole tablets.

“While seven students complained of uneasiness and nausea at a government primary school in Bamnidih block, five complained of discomfort in another government school of Jaijaipur block after consuming the anti-worm tablets,” said Janjgir-Champa Collector OP Chaudhary.

The students were admitted to the Jaijaipur Government Hospital. Their condition is stated to be normal.