When Cheryl Kennedy of Chicago went to fill a pinworm prescription for her 4-year-old daughter, she was astounded to learn that four tablets of the drug Albenza cost almost $700—even with insurance.

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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Although home remedies for pinworms exist, they’re anecdotal and aren’t a proven treatment. OTC pyrantel pamoate or doctor-prescribed medications are effective treatments, though home remedies may ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It's something a lot of kids get, but it's also easily cured. One single prescription pill can stop a contagious case of common pinworm, ringworm or even roundworm. It used to ...

The most common symptom of a pinworm infection is intense itching around the anus. Infections are contagious but are preventable with handwashing and other hygiene practices. A pinworm, or Enterobius ...

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 contact ...

What Are Pinworms and Tapeworms? Pinworms are also called “threadworms.” They’re the most common type of intestinal worm infection in the U.S. and one of the most common in the world. They’re thin and ...

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 ...

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[Sign up to receive NYT Parenting in your inbox every Wednesday] When I found out one of my kids had head lice, my knee-jerk instinct was to burn down my house and walk away from it all. That seemed ...