ENTEROBIASIS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH ENURESIS AMONGONE OF ORPHANGE CARE CHILDREN IN BAGHDAD- IRAQ

Ban   AL-Qadhi; Harith   AL-Warid; Menahel   AL-Qadhi

doi:10.24996/ijs.2011.52.3.%g

Authors

Ban AL-Qadhi Department of Biology, College of Science , University of Baghdad.Baghdad-Iraq
Harith AL-Warid Department of Biology, College of Science , University of Baghdad.Baghdad-Iraq
Menahel AL-Qadhi Iraqi Supreme Audit.Bahgdad - Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2011.52.3.%25g

Keywords:

RELATIONSHIP, ENURESIS

Abstract

The prevalence of Enterobiasis and Enuresis were screened in this study, to evaluate
the possible relationship between each other, and to investigate age, gender related
factors in fifty one orphanage Iraqi children their age (3-12) years, before and after
albendazole treatment. The results showed that Enterobius vermicularis is one of the
most frequent parasites in orphanages, the overall infection rate (84.31%) was reported
in this study, and gender is less related with the prevalence of enterobiasis , the infection
rate in males(55.81%) was higher than females(44.18%) , although there was no
significant relation (p0.05) between gender and infection rate of enterobiasis , while a
significant relationshp between enterobiasis and nocturnal enuresis were investigated
(p0.05) , the percentage of children who had pinworm infection and enuresis was
58.82% before treatment, while the percentage after treatment with Albendazole was
11.76%. Questionnaire interviews were used to determine which of the children suffered
from some clinical symptoms gathered with enuresis.