If your child wakes up scratching their bottom at night, pay close attention - that persistent nighttime itching is the most common sign of pinworms. This itch, often worse after bedtime, can mean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...