Parasitosis y su relación con anemia y desnutrición en niños de 5 a 9 años de la parroquia Juan Benigno Vela del cantón Ambato

Abstract

The objective of this research was to determine the relationship of intestinal parasitosis and its relationship with anemia and malnutrition in children from 5 to 9 years old in the Juan Benigno Vela parish of the Ambato. This is a qualitative study of documentary and field type, where 100 blood samples were analyzed to determine hemoglobin levels and fecal samples to identify the presence of intestinal parasites through the Faust flotation technique, for the collection of information surveys were applied to each legal representative of the participant, also anthropometric data was taken from each child. It was possible to determine that 82% of the total child population was parasitized, 56.1% of them had only one type of parasite and 43.9% had more than two parasites. As for pathogenicity, 29.3% had commensal parasites and 70.7% had pathogenic parasites, 83% of them were infected with the chromista species and 16% with protozoa. The most frequent parasites were: Blastocystis sp. 43.41% followed by Entamoeba coli 20.16%, Endolimax nana 18.60% and Giardia lamblia 8.53%. As for the Body Mass Index, 86% of the children had a healthy weight and 5% were underweight; according to the results of the biometry, 68.55% presented normal hemoglobin and 25.2% presented anemia due to low hemoglobin levels. It is concluded that in the parish Juan Benigno Vela there is a high prevalence of parasitosis, but it is not related to anemia and malnutrition