Nutritional evaluation of children with enteroparasitosis

• 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
• ISSN: 0102-8650

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.