Relationship between anaemia in children living in a malaria endemic areas and intestinal parasitic infection
- Author:
Ta Thi Tinh
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
intestinal parasitic infection, anaemia
- MeSH:
Malaria;
Parasitemia;
child;
epidemiology;
Helminthiasis;
Parasitic Diseases;
Anemia
- From:Journal of Malaria and parasite diseases Control
2003;0(1):92-98
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A cross-sectional surveys on 1.206 children aged < 13 years old were carried out in Tra Mai commune of Quang Nam province and Phu Rieng commune of Binh Phuoc province in 2 years of 1999 and 2000. The proportion of anaemia children in Tra Mai was 21.6%, Phu Rieng was 33.5%. The most of them were mild anaemia patients. No severe anaemia case was detected. Malaria, hookworm were determined to be the risk factors for anaemia. There was a correlation between the hemoglobin concentration, the malaria parasitemia and the intensity of hookworm infection. Acid folic supplement treatment with dose of 2mg/kg/day x 30 days, combined with specific drugs in anaemia children had increased clearly hemoglobin concentration compared with single specific drugs
