title: [Clinical symptoms of giardia infection in children].
abstract: Clinical studies of children with Giardia lamblia infection have indicated that its clinical symptoms are largely nonspecific and characterized by pain, dyspepsia, asthenic neurosis and allergic dermatosis. Dyspepsia is the leading clinical syndrome of giardiasis that was detected in 81.5% of the examinees. Pain was noted in 76.9% of such children, asthenic neurotic and allergic reactions were found in 64.8 and 15.7%, respectively. Among concurrent parasitic diseases, enterobiosis is more common (26.9%). On physical examination, three fourths of the children with giardiasis had pain on palpation of areas of the epigastrium, pyloroduodenum, right hypochondrium, as well as a splashing sound and rumbling along the thick bowel. Laboratory studies showed that a third of the patients with giardiasis had elevated eosinophil levels and moderate dysproteinemia, which is indicative of the body's sensitization and an inflammatory process in the biliary system. The clinical manifestations of Giardia lamblia infection were analyzed in children of different age groups. It was found that dyspeptic and allergic dermatological syndromes were prevalent in children aged 2-3 years, dyspepsia in those aged 4-7 years, dyspepsia and pain in those aged 13-15 years, and pain in those aged 13-15 years. Thus, changes in the clinical symptoms of giardiasis were followed up. There were poorer clinical symptoms in old age groups and organic digestive pathology developed in the patients.
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Zalipaeva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004064:Digestive System / Q000473:pathology; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000473:pathology; D005873:Giardiasis / Q000097:blood / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000473:pathology; D010146:Pain / Q000473:pathology