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 ...

[Sign up to receive NYT Parenting in your inbox every Wednesday] When I found out one of my kids had head lice, my knee-jerk instinct was to burn down my house and walk away from it all. That seemed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lice, pinkeye and pinworm can spread easily from child to household, but thorough cleaning and good hygiene can help fight them off. By Jolie Kerr This article was originally published on June 3, 2019 ...