Absorption of carbohydrate from rice in Ascaris lumbricoides infected Burmese village children.
J Trop Pediatr
; 38(6): 323-6, 1992 12.
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ABSTRACT
With the objective of determining the relationship between ascariasis and carbohydrate absorption from rice, breath hydrogen tests (BHT's) were performed in two study populations of Burmese village children. Using a rice test meal, breath hydrogen peaks greater than 10 ppm above baseline within 4 hours (indicating rice malabsorption) were seen in 24 out of 55 (44 per cent) Ascaris lumbricoides infected children and 3 out of 18 (17 per cent) non-infected children (age 18-59 months). In another ascaris endemic village 139 children (age 36-108 months) underwent a rice meal BHT. Seventy children had been regularly dewormed for 2 years (single dose levamisole 50 mg every 3 months) whilst 69 children had been dewormed once in 2 years, 6 weeks before breath testing. Regularly dewormed children showed a lower prevalence of rice malabsorption (33 per cent) compared to the control group (54 per cent) (P < 0.05). These findings suggest that malabsorption of carbohydrate from rice can occur during Ascaris lumbricoides infection in children.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Contexto em Saúde:
3_ND
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Ascaríase
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Oryza
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Carboidratos da Dieta
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Ascaris lumbricoides
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Absorção Intestinal
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Enteropatias Parasitárias
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Trop Pediatr
Ano de publicação:
1992
Tipo de documento:
Article