Nutritional evaluation of children with enteroparasitosis

To evaluate the nutritious state in children of low social-economic class in order to look over a possible corelationship among this status and the infections caused by enteroparasites. 103 children were submitted to a nutritions evolution and to accomplish a exam of serial samples. The method emplo...

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Published in:Acta cirúrgica brasileira 2005, Vol.20 Suppl 1, p.57-62
Main Authors: Dantas, Valéria Cristina Ribeiro, Schxarzschild, Lúcia de Fáitima Campos Pedroza, de Medeiros, Ralfo Cavalcanti, dos Santos, Ana Kalina Dantas, Sales, Valéria Soraya de Farias
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Subjects:
Animals
Anthropometry
Child
Child Day Care Centers
Child Nutrition Disorders - classification
Child Nutrition Disorders - parasitology
Child Nutrition Disorders - pathology
Child, Preschool
Eukaryota - growth & development
Feces - parasitology
Female
Gastroenteritis - parasitology
Helminthiasis - complications
Helminths - growth & development
Humans
Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - complications
Male
Nutrition Assessment
Nutritional Status - physiology
Parasite Egg Count
Poverty
Protein-Energy Malnutrition - parasitology
Severity of Illness Index
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Summary:To evaluate the nutritious state in children of low social-economic class in order to look over a possible corelationship among this status and the infections caused by enteroparasites. 103 children were submitted to a nutritions evolution and to accomplish a exam of serial samples. The method employed searched protozoan cystos, helmints eggs and larvae and it counted helmint eggs when presented through 4 different methods of diagnosis. The results obtained show that the poor environmental and social-economic conditions helped create a high infectious frequency caused by enteroparasites, mainly by Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides, among the helminthes, and Endolimax nana and Giardia lamblia, among the protozoans. light malnutrition without protein deficit was found in 93.55% and moderate malnutrition in 6.45% of the children malnutrition (30.7%). Then, it is possible to suggest that children besides bearing many parasitosis were not weth their nutritional state deeply compromised.
ISSN:0102-8650