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