Prevalence of Intestinal Hetminths Parasites Among the Children in Chools in Devedaha Municipality of Rupandehi Distric, Nepal

Abstract

The intestinal parasitic infection is more common in developing countries living under low socio-economic profile, with poor hygiene and sanitary condition. This study was carried out to measure the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis among the children of Public and Private schools of Devdaha Rupandehi. Total 150 stool sample were collected randomly from different public school (n=75) and private schools (n=75) and examined by direct smear method. Out of 150 samples of children 28 (18.667%) were found to be infected with one or more intestinal parasites. Among them A. lumbricoides (42.10% vs. 41.66%), Trichuris trichiura (26.31% vs. 25%) Hookworm (17.14% vs. 15.38%) and Taenia sp. (15.78% vs. 8.33%) were identified. The prevalence of infection were found higher in public school children (22.667%) as compared to private school (14.667%) where public school boys were (24.24%) were slightly more infected than girls (21.42%) while in private school girls (15.38%) were slightly more infected than boys (13.88%). The prevalence of parasite on the basis of age group (3-7) years in both public (25%) and private (18.42%) school is more than other age groups. The observed data were statistically analyzed with the help of Ms. Excel 2007, Chai square test was performed for the analysis of data, statistically no significant difference (P>0.05) was noticed in prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection among children of both public and private schools children. Children should be discouraged from activities such as finger sucking defecating on open place, nail biting habits, walking by bare foot, use of dirty drinking water etc. Basic health education program about intestinal parasitic infections should be conducted time to time, proper management of toilet, Pure and safe drinking water should be made easily accessible, which is important to overcome parasitic infection in school children.