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 ...

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 ...

This medication is used to treat intestinal worm infections such as pinworm, roundworm, and hookworm. Pyrantel belongs to a class of drugs known as anthelmintics. It works by making the worms unable ...

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 ...