 Physical growth delay, weight loss, nutritional deficiencies, and anemia (due to long-standing blood loss) are also characteristic of infection, and these symptoms are more prevalent and severe in children.It does not commonly cause eosinophilia.Coinfection of "T. trichiura" with other parasites is common and with larger worm burdens can cause both exacerbation of dangerous trichuriasis symptoms such as massive gastrointestinal bleeding (shown to be especially dramatic with coinfection with "Salmonella typhi") and exacerbation of symptoms and pathogenesis of the other parasitic infection (as is typical with coinfection with "Schistosoma mansoni", in which higher worm burden and liver egg burden is common).