Most parents know that moment of dread – your child is scratching furiously in the middle of the night, pulling at their ...

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 are tiny white roundworms that enter the body when people ingest or breathe in their microscopic eggs. The worms make their way through the digestive system and lay their eggs in the rectum.

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 ...