Infantile cerebral palsy, its gastrointestinal complications and effects of nutritional status in children 1-10 years of the integral riding center of the prefecture of guayas
Journal Title: Más Vita - Year 2020, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Currently, private and public institutions do not have among their services the care of users with disabilities and caregivers do not have an adequate food education program Objective: Establish the feeding scheme and knowledge of caregivers in children from 1 to 10 years old with infantile paralysis of the Centro Integral de Equinoterapia de la Prefectura de Guayas. Methodology: It is a field ́s research, descriptive, with a transversal design applying two qualitative and quantitative modalities. To select the population and the sample, several research instruments, methods, techniques were applied. Results: It was evidenced that caregivers have a basic knowledge of the frequency and schedules of children’s meals, but not in their rations and the fiber consumption. For that reason, children have mostly symptoms and signs of gastroesophageal reflux, with moderate to severe malnutrition. Conclusions: Because of caregivers’ ignorance about the gastrointestinal diseases caused by PCI that children suffer from. The children knows the signs and symptoms they have. In addition, it was found that patients suffer from severe malnutrition, due to the different subpathologies that occur at the gastrointestinal level caused by childhood cerebral palsy. Therefore, it is essential that the feeding scheme for caregivers of children 1-10 years old, who attend to the Centro Integral de Equinoterapia de la Prefectura de Guayas, be improved, with the socialization of a healthy eating guide for each of its pathologies
Authors and Affiliations
Yaira Lyanne Doylet-Rivas, Graciela Mercedes Álvarez-Condo, Miriam Janet González-Calero, Cassandra Hidalgo Candell
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