Adewole, Adekanmi and Abdussalam, Fatimah Oluwakemi (2019) Effect of Nutrition on Schistosomiasis Infection among Primary School Pupils of Ebute-Igbooro, Yewa North Local Government. In: Proceedings of 1st National Conference of WITED, Ilaro Chapter, 2019, The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro.
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Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by flukes (trematodes) of the genus Schistosoma. A survey of the effect of nutrition status on Schistosomiasis among Primary school pupils of St. John’s primary school and Local Authority primary school, Ebute-igbooro, Yewa North Local government was carried out. The study group was made up of pupils of St John’s Anglican Primary school and Yewa North Local Authority Primary school both in the village. The research was designed as a cohort study to include a baseline examination before treatment and follow up examination 6 and 12 weeks post treatment. Baseline examination included 378 school children with age range 5-12 years in Primary schools. The urine samples were collected and further subjected to microscopic examination to check for the presence of S. heamatobium. Height, weight, mid-upper arm circumference were measured and questionnaires were administered to obtain demographic data from pupils. The result indicated that infected children have poor Body mass index (BMI) that showed underweight and poor nutrition status.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Chemistry |
| Depositing User: | Mr Taiwo Egbeyemi |
| Date Deposited: | 30 May 2020 12:43 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2020 12:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/134 |
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