[Nutritional evaluation of children with enteroparasitosis].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the nutritious state in children of low social-economic class in order to look over a possible corelationship among this status and the infections caused by enteroparasites.


METHODS
103 children were submitted to a nutritions evolution and to accomplish a exam of serial samples. The method employed searched protozoan cystos, helmints eggs and larvae and it counted helmint eggs when presented through 4 different methods of diagnosis.


RESULTS
The results obtained show that the poor environmental and social-economic conditions helped create a high infectious frequency caused by enteroparasites, mainly by Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides, among the helminthes, and Endolimax nana and Giardia lamblia, among the protozoans. light malnutrition without protein deficit was found in 93.55% and moderate malnutrition in 6.45% of the children malnutrition (30.7%).


CONCLUSIONS
Then, it is possible to suggest that children besides bearing many parasitosis were not weth their nutritional state deeply compromised.
Dantas
Valéria Cristina Ribeiro
VC
Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas da UFRN. valcrisr@uol.com.br
Schxarzschild
Lúcia de Fáitima Campos Pedroza
Lde F
de Medeiros
Ralfo Cavalcanti
RC
dos Santos
Ana Kalina Dantas
AK
Sales
Valéria Soraya de Farias
VS
D000818:Animals; D000886:Anthropometry; D002648:Child; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D015362:Child Nutrition Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000254:growth & development; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000469:parasitology*; D006373:Helminthiasis / Q000150:complications*; D006376:Helminths / Q000254:growth & development; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009752:Nutritional Status / Q000502:physiology; D010270:Parasite Egg Count; D011203:Poverty; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000469:parasitology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index