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 ...

Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and associate professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health.

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 ...