Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Parasite: Pinworm

Kendall knocked on my bedroom door late last night. "Can we go to the drugstore? I need some medicine." She was horribly embarrassed to tell why. She'd somehow contracted pinworm. You know what that is? Little tiny white worms that live in your guts and crawl out your rectum at night to lay their eggs. You can see them if you look at your private parts at night. Yuck! Kendall self-diagnosed; I did not check her. When you're 17, the last thing you want is for your mom to look at your privates. I picked up an over-the-counter medicine for her. One dose takes care of the little buggers.

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