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 ...

DOCTORS were shocked to discover pinworms living inside a teenager's appendix. The 15-year-old arrived at A&E doubled over with tummy pain, feeling sick, and unable to eat - all classic signs of ...

What Is a Pinworm Infection? A pinworm infection is an intestinal illness that's very common in elementary school-aged children. Pinworms are small, thin, pin-shaped worms that sometimes live in the ...

During a medical procedure to remove a 16-year-old girl's appendix, doctors discovered that she was suffering from an infestation of pinworms. Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm) causes significant ...

Long, white and furiously wriggling, this video shows a teenager’s appendix absolutely riddled with worms. Doctors believed the 15-year-old was suffering from appendicitis and operated to remove the ...

Stomach-churning footage shows the moment surgeons removed a horde of WORMS from inside a schoolgirl - after mistaking them for deadly appendicitis. The unnamed youngster attended the paediatric wing ...

A 15-year-old girl in the UK shocked doctors in the operation theatre after it was discovered that her appendix was completely riddled with worms. It was initially suspected that the girl was ...

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 ...

Despite this, her temperature was normal, and initial tests, including blood work and imaging, were inconclusive. A pelvic ultrasound showed a small ovarian cyst, and a CT scan revealed mild ...