Relationship Between Nutritional Status And Giardia Lamblia Infection Of Children In Al-Karbala City.

Abstract

Objective: Malnutrition is delivered and sustained in an unpredictable example in the tropical nations where it is endemic. Gut parasites could deliver ailing health. In kids, giardiasis is all the more regularly connected with looseness of the bowels and malabsorption.

Materials: Stool tests were arbitrary gathered from 100 children (50 males and 50 females) between the ages 2–12 from Karbala city emergency clinic during 2020-2021. Tallness, weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) boundaries have been utilized in the current investigation to decide the sustenance status.

Results:. No critical contrasts saw among young men and young ladies and as indicated by age gatherings. A parasitological stool assessment result demonstrated Giardia lamblia in just 31% of kids. There was proof of 32% of hunger status by W/H, H/Age and BMI ideas individually were related with positive giardiasis. The prevalence of infection males 35.7% was higher than females 25% in children .and 37.5% in males was higher than females 25% of malnutrition. The prevalence of infection and malnutrition in rural 77.4% and  75 % Respectively , 22.6% and 25% in urban .

Conclusion : The investigation presumed that giardiasis could be a factor partake with other sterile social factors that impact on nourishing status in children .