Other symptoms can include weight loss, wetting the bed and irritated skin around the anus. Pinworm infections are most likely to occur in children ages five to ten.

If your child gets pinworms: Don't fret. Any serious health consequences are very rare. Ten percent to 50 percent of children become infected between the ages of 5-12, so it is certainly not unusual.

Children share all kinds of things when they go back to school – books, pencils, stories from summer vacation and, unfortunately, pesky and sometimes dangerous parasites that rely on close ...

If they do have symptoms, the itchy bottom would be the most likely.” A typical, minor pinworm infection may be several worms (or as few as one mating pair of pinworms), while a heavy infection ...

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 ...

The most effective medications for treatment of persistent symptoms of parasites when no parasites can be found are the antipsychotic drugs, the same ones that are used for schizophrenia.

Q: My 7-year-old daughter was embarrassing all of us by constantly scratching between her buttocks. When I took her to the doctor we were told that it sounded like pinworms.