[Cidade Leonor slum, São Paulo. III. Environmental contamination and natural feeding practice].
In this study the authors report the high rate of environmental contamination to which children living in slum areas are exposed. The authors performed a bacteriologic and parasitologic survey in children with acute diarrhea and in controls. Feeding habits were also recorded. The feeding habits revealed that 176 out of 520 children (33.8%) were never breast fed, whereas the remaining 344 (66.7%) were breast fed for an average of 2.2 months. The parasitologic survey was positive in 89% of the stool samples obtained from 83 children, mostly with multiple infections. The bacteriologic survey revealed the presence of enteropathogens and, in particular, invasive E. coli and Campylobacter in 46.7% of the children with acute diarrhea, and in 32.5% of the children in the control group. These findings allow the authors to state that environmental conditions of slum areas directly predispose to the appearance of the diarrhea-malnutrition binomial.
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Departamento de Pediatria, Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo.
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Kallas
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Trabulsi
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Fagundes Neto
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D001938:Brazil; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010270:Parasite Egg Count; D011204:Poverty Areas; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Observações sobre a favela da Cidade Leonor, São Paulo. III--Contaminação ambiental e a prática do aleitamento natural.