Enterobiasis and its relationship with enuresis among one of orphange care children in Baghdad-Iraq

Abstract EN

The prevalence of Enterobiasis and Enuresis were screened in this study, to evaluate the possible relationship between each other, and to investigate age, gender related factors in fifty one orphanage Iraqi children their age (3-12) years, before and after albendazole treatment.

The results showed that Enterobius vermicular is one of the most frequent parasites in orphanages, the overall infection rate (84.

31 %) was reported in this study, and gender is less related with the prevalence of enterobiasis, the infection rate in males(55.

81 %) was higher than females(44.

18 %) , although there was no significant relation (p 0.

05) between gender and infection rate of enterobiasis, while a significant relationship between enterobiasis and nocturnal enuresis were investigated (p 0.

05)the percentage of children who had pinworm infection and enuresis was 85.

82 % before treatment, while the percentage after treatment with Albendazole was 11.

76 % Questionnaire interviews were used to determine which of the children suffered from some clinical symptoms gathered with enuresis.