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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...