The NHS has advice on what to do about sending your kids to school should your child have any of these 17 health conditions ...

Worm infections are generally thought of as a childhood problem. The truth, however, is that adults too carry a risk, especially in places where hygiene, food and water safety may be less than perfect ...

I don’t mean to alarm you but the kids are back at school and nursery, which means parents need to be on the lookout for nits and (I’m so sorry) worms. Specifically threadworms, which – I didn’t ...

If you see your child scratching his bum more than usual, he might have worms. Read on to find out all you need to know about worms in children. If you have a child who’s skinny, you’ve probably heard ...

Threadworms, which are a type of parasitic nematode, spend a lot of time crawling around on human skin, poking and prodding to find the best place for entry before burrowing in. But disrupting a ...

Threadworms spend up to 10 minutes exploring human skin before finding the best place to burrow in. When a specific dopamine signal is blocked, the worms almost completely stop trying to penetrate the ...

Whole villages in southern Mexico are threatened with mass blindness as an obscure disease sweeps the tropical, coffee-growing state of Chiapas. Thus far Government sanitary brigades have only sized ...

I have had an itchy bottom for months, especially at night. Scratching only seems to make it worse. I regularly wash the area and have tried hydrocortisone cream but to no avail. What could be the ...

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The comedian Shappi Khorsandi once commented that she used the mythical concept of 'sugar worms' to get her children to brush their teeth after sweets. It's a trick I poached to convince my daughter ...

The comedian Shappi Khorsandi once commented that she used the mythical concept of “sugar worms” to get her children to brush their teeth after sweets. It’s a trick I poached to convince my daughter ...

Comedian Shappi Khorsandi once commented that she used the mythical concept of “sugar worms” to get her children to brush their teeth after sweets. It’s a trick I poached to convince my daughter to do ...