pinworm infection
enterobiasis

Many people with pinworm infections do not have any symptoms.

Pinworm infections are easily spread from one person to another.

Pinworm infection has no association with any socioeconomic level, race or culture.

It is not the medicine usually first used to treat pinworm infections.

Many people with pinworm infections have no symptoms and may never be aware of the infection.

One third of individuals with pinworm infection are totally asymptomatic.

Little wonder, then, that an estimated one-tenth of Americans have pinworm infections.

If any adult pinworms or eggs are found, the person has a pinworm infection.

Concomitant Pinworm infection should also be excluded although the association has not been proven.

Pinworm infection cannot be totally prevented under most circumstances.

You can treat pinworm infections with over-the-counter and prescription medicines.

Worldwide, especially in countries that lack adequate toilet facilities, the rate of pinworm infection is far higher.

Finding a pinworm infection requires some nighttime detective work.

People get pinworm infections from one another.

The cause of a pinworm infection is the worm Enterobius vermicularis.

The stigma associated with pinworm infection is hence considered a possible over-emphasis.

Medication is the primary treatment for pinworm infection.

In most cases, albendazole gets rid of pinworm infection.

Pinworm infections are easily treated with medicine, and treatment can help prevent the spread of infection to others.

How long can pinworm infection be spread?

Pinworm infections are common and spread easily.

Pyrantel pamoate gets rid of pinworm infections most of the time.

Mebendazole is highly effective and cures pinworm infections more than 90% of the time.1

Pinworm infections can happen to anyone.

What happens during a pinworm infection?

Its coincidence with Enterobiasis has been reported.

The worms, which cause a disease called enterobiasis, may make their hosts itch and squirm.

Enterobius, commonly known as pinworms, cause the disease enterobiasis.

An example is enterobiasis.

Enterobiasis rarely causes any serious physical problems except for the main symptom, which is severe rectal itching.

In clinical trials, it was highly effective in treating ankylostomiasis, ascariasis and enterobiasis.

In humans, enterobius vermicularis causes the medical condition enterobiasis, whose primary symptom is itching in the anal area.

A pinworm infection or enterobiasis is a human parasitic disease and one of the most common childhood parasitic worm infections in the developed world.

The medical condition associated with pinworm infestation is known as enterobiasis, or less precisely as oxyuriasis in reference to the family Oxyuridae.

Oxyuriasis test; Enterobiasis test; Tape test One way to diagnose pinworms is to use a flashlight to inspect the anal area.

It is mainly used in humans in the treatment of onchocerciasis, but is also effective against other worm infestations (such as strongyloidiasis, ascariasis, trichuriasis, filariasis, enterobiasis, and some epidermal parasitic skin diseases, including scabies.