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 ...

Most parents know that moment of dread – your child is scratching furiously in the middle of the night, pulling at their pajamas, too groggy to explain what’s wrong, too uncomfortable to go back to ...

As a parent, it might feel like you are constantly giving your children worm treatments—usually in the form of chocolate or sweetened chewable tablets. In fact, most kids in Australia (or any other ...

The infection season in kindergartens and schools is already here, and experts explain how the risk of reinfection can be reduced through simple means. There are few phenomena that manage to trouble ...

This medication is used to treat intestinal worm infections such as pinworm, roundworm, and hookworm. Pyrantel belongs to a class of drugs known as anthelmintics. It works by making the worms unable ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: How does a child contract pinworms? What are the symptoms and treatment options? Pinworms! Just the thought of them can provoke discomfort and anxiety. But many people who carry ...

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 ...

Diarrhea and stomach pain can happen if you have a heavy intestinal worm infection, like tapeworm. You can check your poop ...

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – A Clay County mother is calling for accountability from her child’s school after her daughter contracted pinworm infections twice within two months. Alisha Monroe, a parent of a ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Duval County mother said her son contracted pinworms at New Berlin Elementary School, adding that the first grader came home with the infection at the end of September, leading ...