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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About pinworms, they are nothing to get overly worried about. This is because they’re surprisingly common and easy to treat too. When Simi awoke a second time complaining that “her whole private area ...

It's spring, which means all the little critters of the world hatch and come out … and that makes pediatricians think of pinworms. That's what you were thinking of, right? Pinworms, or Enterbiasis ...

Lice, pinkeye and pinworm can spread easily from child to household, but thorough cleaning and good hygiene can help fight them off. By Jolie Kerr This article was originally published on June 3, 2019 ...

[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 ...