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 ...

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Hi Dr Ombeva My child has pinworms and is not responding to albendazoles, which medication can I use to get rid of the worms? Dear Betty Pinworms also called Enterobius vermicularis or seatworms or ...

Dear Betty Pinworms also called Enterobius vermicularis or seatworms or threadworms are extremely common and contagious and are transmitted by ingesting pinworm eggs. These eggs can be found on ...