Prevalencia de parasitosis intestinal y su relación con estados anémicos en los niños que asisten en las guarderías del Municipio de Riobamba.

Abstract

The present study determined the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis related to the anemic states in children attending the six children's development centers of the Decentralized Autonomous Government of the Riobamba cantón, a parasitological (coproparasitary) and hematological (blood biometric) was done to a population of 128 children of a range of 1 - 3 years oíd with the attendance of the parents and the help of the coordinating and auxiliary teachers of each children's center, stool samples were collected and blood extraction ; The collected samples were transferred to the laboratory of Parasitology and Clinical Analysis of School of Biochemistry and Pharmacy of the Polytechnic School of Chimborazo. For the coproparasitary examination, lugol and 0.85% of saline solution was used while the hematocrit determination was performed manually, resulting in (61/128) representing 48% of all children with intestinal parasitosis, there is no gender significance due to 67 men attending, representing 52.3% and 61 women, representing a percentage of 47.7%. Of the 48% of children with parasites, (42/61) children show to be monoparasite with 69% and (19/61) cases have 31% of polyparasite children; being the most prevalent

parasite Entamoeba histolytica with 11%, Giardia lamblia cysts with 10%, Entamoeba coli cysts

with 9%, Chilomastix mesnili cysts with 2% and Endolimax nana with 1%. Based on the clinical

analyzes,

it is concluded that there is no direct relation of parasitosis and anemic states. It is essential to socialize teachers and parents through the implementatíon of public health campaigns on the prevention and eradication of intestinal parasitosis in children because they are the most vulnerable population.