Urinary Tract Infection in Malnourished Children Under 5 Years in Tikrit-Iraq Muhsin Mohammad1, Sarhat Ashoor R.1,*, Ghani Marwa Faiz Abdul2 1Tikrit Medical College, Iraq 2Salah Al-Deen Health Directorate, Iraq *Corresponding author: Ashoor R. Sarhat. Tikrit Medical College, Iraq, E-mail: ashoor.sarhat@gmail.com.
Online published on 21 February, 2019. Abstract UTI is a common problem in children. Its occurrence depends on several predisposing factors and individual immunocompetence. Children with malnutrition have impaired immune function. A cross sectional hospital based study done on children under age of 5 years old admitted to pediatric department in Salah Al Deen General Hospital to evaluate the prevalence of UTI in malnourished children during the period from 1st May to 1st September 2017. The patients will be divided into two groups: Group 1 with malnutrition, while group 2 with are well nourished and each group evaluated by prepared questionnaire including personal, demographic, medical, and clinical evaluation (concentrating on Urinary tract infection) with anthropometric measure. The total number of cases was 160 cases (51% male & 48% female), divided into 2 groups; malnourished (74 case) and well nourished (86 case). Significant bacteruria was found in (27%) of malnourished patients, and (4.65%) of control subject (P value ˂ 0.05).The risk of bacteriuria did not increase significantly with the severity of malnutrition. This study also raveled that bacteriuria in malnourished patients were more common in rural area as(78%) of them live in rural area, also the incidence increase with low educational mother. Top Keywords Urinary tract infection in Malnourished children, malnutrition. Top |