Intestinal parasites and the correlation with anemia in children and adolescents from a community in Belém-PA

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Gabriel da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Navarro, Alice Nayara Monteiro, Toledo, Sarah Andrade, Silva, Thales Andrade da, Pereira, Isabelly Coutinho, Costa, Danilo Evangelista, Corrêa, Thasmyr das Mercês Gonçalves, Brito, Francisco Daniel Queiroz, Silva, Alessandra Ribeiro Moraes da, Arruda, José Eduardo Gomes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/28408
• topic: Parasitoses intestinais; Anemia; Crianças; Adolescentes.; Parasitosis intestinales; Anemia; Niños; Adolescentes.; Intestinal parasites; Anemia; Children; Adolescents.

The high incidence of enteroparasitoses in the North Region of Brazil directed this study to analyze the relationship between enteroparasitoses and the presence of iron-deficiency anemia in children and adolescents from the Anjos da Guarda Community in Belém/PA. Parents and caretakers were given the Informed Consent Form (ICF) and a socio-epidemiological questionnaire, after which stool and blood samples were collected from children and adolescents. From the parasites and anemia research, it was pointed out that 60.8% of the samples had at least one enteroparasite and only three patients had a blood count suggestive of iron-deficiency anemia. The data were crossed in the BioEstat 5.0 statistical program and, although no relationship between the presence of parasites and iron-deficiency anemia was observed, the study illustrates that the high incidence of parasites is related to poor basic sanitation, since 80% of the participants reported using a septic tank in their homes and drinking untreated water, which are risk factors associated with contamination by intestinal parasites such as E.histolytica and G.lamblia.