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This week my wife and I noticed a white strand like thing on our cats butt. I pulled it off and noticed it was about a 1/2”-3/4” long worm like thing. It was flattening out and then constricting into a thinner line. We immediately took him to the vets, they told us it was probably tape worm. Went back home to get a fecal sample and there was a worm in it at least an 1”-1 1/2” long hanging from the poop. Vet gave us 2x) Drontal and Revolution Plus to give him. A day later fecal results came back negative for eggs, but she looked at the worm and thinks it’s Roundworm/Hookworm. She gave Pyrantel Pamote to give him now as well but it’s only been 3-4days since 1st dose of Drontal I feel horrible but we’ve isolated him to one room but I’m freaking out because we don’t know how long he could’ve had this and he’s always around our kid and on/under the furniture. All I keep thinking is there’s roundworm eggs everywhere. The vet said it’s almost impossible to get and ingest the eggs but everything I’ve read makes me think I could have them everywhere. I’m trying to clean the whole house but it’s impossible to not have potential cross contamination. I tried to talk to the vet but she’s kinda dismissive, I feel like I’m being a pain in the ass. I’ve scooped the poop out of his litter as soon as I’ve seen it since we found out. Please help. I haven’t disinfected the scooper which I feel might just spread eggs into his litter. Am I just being crazy??