Malnutrition in relation to some intestinal parasitic infection in children of Kirkuk city-Iraq

Abstract

Malnutrition and infection with intestinal parasites are widespread in almost all developing countries, high rate of people in the world are infected with protozoal and helminthes parasites. Most of cases are asymptomatic but some intestinal parasites can cause severe diarrhea and malnutrition problems. Four hundred and thirty children (257 male and 173 female) whom attended the parasitology section of Kirkuk General Pediatric and Azady Teaching Hospitals, were chosen for this study. Their ages were < 1-12 years. The weight and the height of each children were recorded. Stool samples were taken from them and examined microscopically for parasitic finding. The frequency of malnutrition was significantly more in males (29.9%) than in females (15.6%). The most age group which were more malnourished in both males and females were 8-11years. Although the number of inpatients (336) was higher than outpatients (94), but malnutrition showed no significant differences between them. The total malnourished children were 24%. Most of the normal malnourished children had body mass index (BMI) range of 13-16.9, while most of the moderate malnourished had BMI range of 13-14.9 and the sever malnourished BMI were 8-12.9.The most prevalent parasite in both sexes were Entamoeba histolytica followed by Giardia lamblia, Hymenolepis nana, Enterobius vermicularis and Cryptosporidium parvum, and the lowest rate was for Ascaris lumbricoides. The most malnourished children were infected C. parvum with a rate of 60%, followed by E. histolytica and G. lamblia with rate of 18.7, 10.4% respectively, no malnutrition degree were noted with other parasites. A significantly high rate of malnourished children had parasitic infection (30%) comparing with the total malnourished number (104). Diarrhea was significantly related with malnutrition degree and with parasites. 60% of the total moderately

Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites among Children in Khanaqin City East of Diyala/Iraq

“…The study considered children from different living areas, that relatively vary in the social environmental and economic conditions, to make it possible to relate the prevalence of the disease to the living conditions of those areas.Current study disclosed that the total incidence of the intestinal parasite infection was 19.778%. This is lower than what was reported by 15 and 3 who have reported infection incidences ratio of 24% and 22.27% respectively. However, the result presented here is higher than that of 16 and 17 who reported occurrence ratio of 14% and 17.4%, respectively.…”

Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Most Endoparasites and Ectoparasites during Past Decade in Iraq

“…The assessment of almost all academic research articles revealed during 2015 and confirmed a variation in the recording of E. histolytica infection among different provinces, high prevalence of infection (50.16%) was recorded in Sulaymaniyah (Ali, 2015), while the low prevalence of infection (5.52%) was recorded in Salahaddin (Tikrit) as mentioned by (Al-Ammash, 2015). Nearly similar results were recorded in Bbil, Al-Nasiria, Erbil, AL-Karbala and Kirkuk (23.37%, 23.78%, 24.4%, 26%, 26.32%, respectively) according to (Ali, 2015), (Khwam, 2015), (Faraj, 2015) (Fatima, 2018 and (Obaid, 2015). During 2016, a variation in the recording E. histolytica infection among different provinces had been demonstrated, similarly high prevalence of infection (79.49% and 70.1%), was recorded in Kirkuk and Diwania respectively (Ahmad, 2016) and (Al-Damerchi, 2016), while the low prevalence of infection (5.58%) was recorded in AL-Karbala (Muhsin, 2016).…”