Prevalência e aspectos epidemiológicos das enteroparasitoses e sua relação com o estado nutricional em crianças residentes no Bairro Beira Rio de Imperatriz, MA em 2011

Abstract

Intestinal parasites are considered a public health problem, that despite all the advances in technology and medicine, are still strongly incidents today, being able to trigger different consequences to their patients, especially in children, who are in growth phase and development and may have harmed this time delay through the physical, mental and social. Thus, this research aims to understand the prevalence and epidemiology of intestinal parasites and their relation to nutritional status in children living in the neighborhood Beira-Rio, aged 01-10 years, who are accompanied by the Family Health Strategy of that district. Therefore, we analyzed 102 records concerning children attending the Basic Health Unit (BHU), through the care offered by the health team in the period between 2011 and underwent stool testing, hemoglobin and serum iron, beyond measure anthropometric. A prevalence of 60% for intestinal parasites, particularly Ascaris lumbricoides (20%), Giardia lamblia (14%) and Endolimax nana (14%). Regarding sex was not identified significant differences in the prevalence, however, was observed an association between intestinal parasites and serum iron anemia, unlike the analysis of hemoglobin. Nutritional assessment showed that (50.98%) of the children were with adequate nutritional status (eutrophic) and (34.32%) had abnormal underweight and nutritional risk, and of these (57.14%) were parasitized, the alerting for greater attention to this audience because of diseases and complications that may result from this condition. In epidemiology there was a significant relationship between low education and intestinal parasites, as well as disability treatment of water consumed, which reinforces that preventive measures are essential to control the condition, as well as the damage to health, reflect conditions of life to which the community is exposed as inadequate sanitation and poor quality of life, especially for children.