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 ...

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 ...

The subject of pinworms may be near and dear to your heart. On second thought, it may not be dear to your heart, and anatomically, it is not really near to it at all. But (pun?), it can be one of ...

It’s spring, which means all the little critters of the world hatch and come out … and that makes pediatricians think of pinworms. That’s what you were thinking of, right? Pinworms, or Enterbiasis ...

Intestinal worms often lead to gastrointestinal symptoms, like diarrhea, because they live in your digestive tract. Other symptoms, such as a skin rash or problems breathing, also can occur, depending ...