Maternal and child intestinal parasitism and breast-feeding

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Costa-Macedo, Lêda Maria¹  Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil¹  Rey, Luis¹  Fundação Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil¹ 

关键词: Intestinal parasites;    Breast-feeding;    Infants;    Epidemiology;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822000000400007

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

: From March to May 1991, the prevalence of intestinal parasites was detected in 208 children under two-year old, from out patients attending the Public Health Service in Rio de Janeiro. Maternal parasitic infection was simultaneously investigated. Information regarding nurseling's breast-feeding and enteroparasites rates was also recorded. The centrifugal-sedimentation was the method used for stool analysis. Positivity was observed in 12.7% for children and 37.3% for women. Ascaris lumbricoides was the most frequently detected parasite in children under one-year old (4.3%) and mothers (12.7%). The distribution of parasites accordingly to breast-feeding showed a significant statistical difference (p < 0.05) among infants. No exclusively suckled child presented infection. Children whose mothers were infected showed almost two fold risk of infection (1.7). A correlation between enteroparasites and weaned children was observed (r = 0.75). We believe that infected mothers can contribute for parasitic infection of their kids.

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