What Are Intestinal Worms (Helminths)?
Human intestinal worms are parasites that live in the human intestine, eat bowel content or suck blood from the intestinal wall.
Intestinal worms may cause severe, life threatening infection, predominantly in children in tropical and subtropical areas where people often defecate on the ground: in rural parts of Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Indonesia and Central and South America. In people from Mediterranean parts of Europe or south parts of North America, they usually cause a relatively mild disease.
Presence of parasites of any kind (including intestinal worms) in or on the body is called infestation.
Helminth is a medical term for intestinal worm.
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