When parents first notice their kids have a pinworm infection, they usually flip. “It freaks parents out,” says Dr. Kristin Bencik-Boudreau, a pediatrician at Bayshore Pediatrics, a primary care ...

Dear Dr. Donohue • Two of my children, a boy in the second grade and a girl in kindergarten, have been scratching their behinds for a week. I mentioned this to my neighbor, and she said they probably ...

Pinworms involve infection by a parasitic worm that may live in the large intestine of a human. A child may contract the infection after unknowingly transferring the worms into their body from a ...

Pinworms! Just the thought of them can provoke discomfort and anxiety. But many people who carry pinworms have no symptoms and rarely suffer any ill effects. Even when a pinworm infection does cause ...

After experiencing two months of anal itching and bleeding, a 32-year-old mother visited a medical clinic for a workup. A colonoscopy revealed that she had a 1-centimeter pinworm living — and laying ...

When children just cannot sit still, they could be suffering from a pinworm infection. Dr. Najwa El Dahdah said the thin white worms are about a quarter to a half-inch long and oftenare not visible to ...

About pinworms, they are nothing to get overly worried about. This is because they’re surprisingly common and easy to treat too. When Simi awoke a second time complaining that “her whole private area ...