Relación entre el consumo del suplemento de micronutrientes y hemoglobina en niños y niñas menores de 5 años. Chimborazo 2016.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to relate the consumption of micronutrient and hemoglobin supplement in children under 5 years of age, in Chimborazo 2016, carried out in 459 children from 0 to 59 months of age who attended to Child Care Centers and Growing with our Children Centers of Chimborazo province during 2016. With a non-experimental cross-sectional design to evaluate the relationship between the consumption of the micronutrient supplement and hemoglobin, in order to study the changes that occur in the nutritional status of iron from consumption of the supplement, by means of an anthropometric evaluation of weight and height and its relation of weight-for-age index, height-for-age index and body-mass for age index, and the HemoCue technique, which consists of taking a capillary blood sample from a finger of the child’s hand in two stages, one at the beginning and the other at the end of the investigation. From the total number of boys and girls evaluated, 12% had low weight for age, 53% had short height, and 6% were overweight. In the initial hemoglobin sample taken 30% of the children had anemia, while in the final hemoglobin sample take the value was reduced to 20% of children with anemia. With the results gotten, it is recommended to maintain the program over time and extend it to the entire population under 5 years of age, both in the distribution of the supplement and in the follow-up of the results.