Influencia de la suplementación con hierro en el Estado Nutricional y niveles de hemoglobina de niños y niñas que asisten a los CIBV, Cantón Pueblo Viejo, Provincia de los Ríos. 2016.

Abstract

This certification work was done in order to analyze the influence of iron supplementation in the nutrition and the hemoglobin levels of children who go to “Buen Vivir” daycares in the province of Los Rios from April to October 2016. This is a non-experimental and cross study, the sample taken was no probabilistic, by intentional sampling or suitability addressed to all the children who had general data such as age, gender, weight, height, and hemoglobin levels before and after a polymaltose iron supplementation. the instrument used for collecting data was 568 SIVAN (Sistema Integrado de Vigiliancia Alimentario Nutricional) form, by its initials in Spanish. The SPSS computer package was used for the statistical analysis, also the polymaltose iron supplementation improves the hemoglobin levels as well as the children’s weight and height. Some statistical differences have been found (p value= 0,000 at the three variables), it means that weight, height and hemoglobin enhanced themselves due to the polymaltose iron supplementation and comparing to gender, the same statistical significance was found which allows to test the following hypothesis; the continuous supplementation with polymaltose iron 12.5 mg/d is related to the nutritional condition of children. It is recommendable to keep on developing the study including dietetic evaluation in order to determine if the low food intake becomes in a risk to get anemia in preschool children.