Perfil nutricional de crianças com hidrocefalia

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Ingrid Maria Novais Barros de Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3763
• topic: Consumo alimentar; Crianças; Estado nutricional; Hidrocefalia; Children; Food consumption; Hydrocephalus; Nutritional state; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE

Hydrocephalus is a complex disease that can present many clinical manifestations compromising the growth and development of the child. Complication risks as infectious processes and impairment of the immune system can be attenuated in presence of nutritional deficiencies. However, studies about nutritional state and nutritional deficiencies of children with hydrocephalus are rare. Objective: To describe the nutritional profile of children with hydrocephalus. Methods: This is a cross-sectional, was developed at Neurosurgery Ambulatory of the University Hospital in Sergipe from August 2010 to May 2011. The data collected refer to social-economic, health, anthropometry, lab exams and food consumption conditions. Results: the results showed that from the 35 children studied, 17,1% were low weight, 31,4% malnourished with impairment of linear growth, 40,0% anemia, 37,2% presented low levels of pre-albumin. The consumption of energy, lipids, calcium, folic acid, vitamin D and vitamin E showed insufficient. The qualitative profile of dietary consumption is monotonous showing a over recommendation value of dairy and sweets/sugars. There was a significant difference for delayed vaccines (p=0,000), BMI/age (p=0,022), hemoglobin (p=0,031), haematocrit (p=0,011) and pre-albumin (p=0,024) in age from six and 24 months. The diet consumption showed a significant difference among age groups for the energetic value (p=0,002), calcium (p=0.005), folate (p=0.015), vitamin D (p=0.011), vitamin E (p=0.005), cereal group (p=0.002) and group of meat and eggs (p=0.033), were detected that the diet impairment was concentrated in children 25-76 months. There was inadequate intake of the group of meat and eggs too in children six and 24 months. Conclusions: Malnutrition affecting the weight, the levels of pre-albumin and anemia was present in children six to 24 months. The inadequate food consumption was striking feature in children 25-76 months. Thus, it is essential to the continuous multidisciplinary follow-up children with hydrocephalus.