[incidence of intestinal parasites in pediatric patients with hematologic neoplasms from 1 to 15 years of age]

Abstract

Introduction: Reference is made to the most frequent intestinal parasites in the hematologic patients and the association with malnutrition.

Material and method: In the Unit of Pediatrics of Hospital General de Mexico, it was studied in prospective, observational and descriptive form to a group of 85 patient hematoncologic, coming from the external consultation, with or without parasitic symptoms. The patients were assisted between June and December of 1994. To all they were carried out studies coproparasitoscopic in series of three, for the method of Faust.

Results: A total of 85 children was studied from 1 to 15 years of age; 59 were parasitaded (69.5%) and 26 (30.5%) free of parasites.

Conclusions: The most frequent affections in the patients pediatric hematoncologic were: leukemia, tumors of the central nervous system and lymphomas. The most frequent parasites were: Giardia lamblia, 28.7%, Entamoeba histolytica 26%, Ascaris lumbricoides 12.3%. Of the 59 patients with some parasite, 54 (91.4%) they studied with some degree of malnutrition.