Estado nutricional y parasitosis intestinal en niños atendidos en el centro de salud Bellavista del cantón Paquisha – Zamora Chinchipe

Nutritional status is a clinical condition that results from the balance between calorie intake and expenditure, which can be affected by factors such as intestinal parasitism, generating negative consequences on the physical and intellectual development of children. In Ecuador, 1 in 4 children under 5 years of age suffer from malnutrition and 3 million of them have parasitism. The purpose of this quantitative, retrospective and cross-sectional study was to determine the nutritional status, types of intestinal parasitism and results of blood counts by age and sex, and to relate them to each other, in a population of 153 patients treated at the BellavistaPaquisha health center. For this, the medical records that allowed the filling of the data collection sheet designed for this purpose were reviewed, after which it was observed that 41.8% (n=64) of children showed normal nutritional status and 39,2% (n=60) moderate acute malnutrition, predominantly in women from 2 to 5 years of age. The most frequent type of intestinal parasitosis was amebiasis 68.6% (n=105), prevalent in preschoolers and schoolchildren of both sexes. The complete blood count revealed eosinophilia in 41.2% (n=63) and anemia in 12.4% (n=19) of the parasitized group. When relating the variables, there was a statistical association between giardiasis with moderate acute malnutrition (p=0.016) and neutrophilia (p=0.030), and ascariasis with eosinophilia (p=0.001). It is concluded that intestinal parasitism influences nutritional status and the results observed in a complete blood count

• Hovedforfatter: Reyes Troya, Joimer José (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Sprog: spa
• Udgivet: 2023
• Fag: MEDICINA; MALNUTRICIÓN; EOSINOFILIA; NIÑOS
• Online adgang: https://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/27295