Worms typically infect children between the ages of five and ten. Most worm infections don't show any symptoms. Children's bottoms might get red and itchy at times. Worm infestations in children often ...

The majority of us have suffered from illnesses related to intestinal worms, most likely when we were younger. Intestinal worms are amongst the most common parasites that affect a kid's nutrition and ...

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 ...

Prof Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté, Coordinator of the National Programme for the Control of Schistosomiasis and Intestinal Helminthiasis. How does bilharzia and intestinal worms damage a child's ...

Abdominal cramping, foreign body in the stool of a child A child presents to the emergency department with a seven-inch live worm in his stool. A 7-year-old male presents to the emergency department ...

Doctors have plucked 11 live worms from a baby's eye after the child contracted a horrific roundworm infection from a neighbour's pet. The boy, named as 'Dong Dong', was taken to hospital after their ...

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