Prevalencia de parasitismo en los niños del Centro de Apoyo Nutricional y Pedagógico Santo Hermano Mguel. Cuenca septiembre 2015 - enero 2016

Abstract

Background Diseases developed by parasites, are creating serious problems in the population, they show a high incidental infection created by intestinal parasites, that can cause, constant diarrhea, anemia and malnutrition in human beings. (1) Objective Determine the parasitic prevalence on children at the National aid nutrition and pediatrics Santo Hermano Miguel. Cuenca starting from September 2015 to January 2015. Methods and materials A study was developed as a transversal descriptive cut type. It was worked with an infant population of 100 children, ranging ages from 5 to 11 years old. The selected people signed the forms and informed consent, a survey was applied to obtain household income and demographic information. Finally proceeded doing a copreparacitic test. The obtained results had an exclusive confidential use for research purposes and they were analyzed through software SPSS 15 and excel. Results The 25 percent of the infant population was male and 75 percent was female, from which 80 percent shows parasitism, the 65 percent mono parasitism and the 35 percent poliparasitismo. The observed photogenic species are: Entamoeba histolygica 85 percent, Giardia lamblia 3.8 percent, Trichomona intestinalis 1.3 percent and Taenia saginata 2.5 percent. According to the household income characteristics, the 100

percent of the population consume regular water. The 83 percent wash their hands before eating, the 71 percent wash their fruits before eating them, the 100 percent uses the sanitary service, at the same time the 42 percent show abdominal pain, the 12 percent present diarrhea, the 14 percent has pruritus and the 46 percent has no appetite. Conclusions The habits of personal hygiene and nutrition are not being followed in the correct form for which exist a high percentage of parasitism, even if they count with basic hygiene services, it doesn't guarantee a negative parasitism