Gambaran status gizi dan faktor risiko kecacingan pada anak cacingan di masyarakat Dayak Meratus, Kecamatan Loksado, Kabupaten Hulu Sungai Selatan

Abstract

Helminthiasis is a disease caused by intestinal parasite helminth with a high prevalence and spread throughout Indonesia, not deadly but secretly and slowly affect the health and productivity of patients through the decline in nutritional status. Slow and less symptom-prone effects cause the disease to be neglected among other diseases. This research is descriptive observational with cross sectional design, to know the description of nutritional status and risk factors of helminthiasis at elementary school children suffering from helminth in Meratus Dayak community, conducted in April 2017 at SDN Loksado and SDN Tanuhi, Loksado Subdistrict, Hulu Sungai Selatan Regency, South Kalimantan Province. The results showed 6.5% of helminthiasis occurred in the Dayak community in the Loksado Subdistrict. Helminthiasis consists caused by hookworm (58.33%), Enterobius (16.66), Hymenolepis (8.33%), Trichuris (8.33%), and mix infection of hookworm and enterobius (8.33%). However, this helminthiasis has not had an impact on the patient's nutritional status and progressed without symptoms, indicated by the nutritional status of patients who are mostly in the normal category until the fat. Although helminthiasis is not a deadly disease and is emergency, but the risk factor of helminthiasis in the patient can cause chronic infestation and transmission to other children.
 Keywords : helminthiasis, nutritional status, risk factors

Risk factors of soil transmitted helminth infection among primary school students

“…Students of 5 th grade had the highest proportion of STH infections (55.56%). 11,12 The results of this study indicate that the prevalence of STH infections is 10.84% with the highest proportion is a Trichuris trichiura. This result is accordingly but lower than the study conducted by Sofiana et al who also found Trichuris trichiura as the major type of STH infection with a proportion of 24.6%.…”

“…1 Annida et al reported the majority of children in Dayak Meratus community (80.4%) had the habit of playing in the yard and used soil as the game media were associated with hookworm infections. 11 Samad's research also found that 52.5% of the soil contaminated with Ascaris lumbricoides eggs in Tembung, Medan was associated with the incidence of STH infections among elementary school students. 14 The STH transmission is easier found among the children who often play or have contact with the ground.…”

Risk of Helminthiasis in Pregnant Women

“…Another symptom of worms is lowering the appetite so that the weight will continue to decrease. Worms are an emergency disease often overlooked because they appear without clinical symptoms (Annida, Fakhrizal, Juhairiyah, & Hairani, 2019).…”

Efektifitas Media Film Dan Ular Tangga Terhadap Pengetahuan Dan Sikap Anak Sd Tentang Penyakit Kecacingan Desa Tanoh Mirah Kecamatan Peusangan Kabupaten Bireuen

“…Cacingan merupakan penyakit di daerah tropis yang bisa ditularkan melalui tanah dan menyebabkan infeksi di rongga usus yang dapat mengakibatkan kehilangan karbohidrat, protein, dan kehilangan darah dan disebabkan karena kurangnya kebersihan diri dan sanitasi yang buruk (Rahman., 2017). Menurut Annida (2018) bahwa penyakit kecacingan memang bukan menjadi penyakit yang mematikan namun jika anak-anak menderita kecacingan akan dapat berdampak terhadap kejadian infeksi yang meningkat dan mengalami penurunan status gizi.…”