Agreed, if just going after the worm you would have better luck treating allopathically after positively identifying the type of worm. I think one needs to look at the child's susceptibility to worms and entire symptom picture. If the approach discussed here were to actually work, we would never have to use a commercial wormer at the shelter, but it doesn't.

Small "grains of rice" this explains what we frequently see in our cats as tapeworm, (I'm not sure stage of larva would be in the bowel? -don't know forsure) although the worms themself are more in diameter of a piece of string and flat not round.