In recent decades there has been recognition that the actions of disease prevention and promoting healthy lifestyles promoted in the child a full growth and development. Since these actions are only viable means of population studies that the child is inserted. However, these benefits become unmanageable children who live in coastal communities, since these studies are extremely scarce. It is known that anemia and intestinal parasitic infections affect child nutritional status thus hindering the full development. The study include 80 children aged 1-10 years, and a 45 (56%) were female and 35 (44%) were male. We had a high prevalence of intestinal parasites found in all these children. The parasites found were E. histolytica/dispar (36.8%), G. lamblia (31.2%), A. lumbricoides (23.2%), T. trichiura (4.8%), hookworm (2.4%) and passing S. stercoralis (1.6%). There was also a high prevalence of anemia (77.5%), noting that children of 1-5 years of age were the hardest hit. The correlation of anemia and deficiency of serum iron was significant (p = 0.0001), since 91% of children were anemic and iron deficiency. The most surprising about this study was that 72.5% of children were well nourished before both intestinal parasites and anemia. We did not observe almost no studies relating to these variables in children riverside, but only by what we watch and shows the results obtained in a context marked by precarious living conditions.
|
