FACTORES RELACIONADOS CON LAS ENFERMEDADES GASTROINTESTINALES DE ORIGEN HÍDRICO EN PACIENTES QUE ACUDEN AL CENTRO DE SALUD MANTA DE LA PARROQUIA MANTA, SUBCENTRO DE SALUD SANTACLARA Y CENTRO DE SALUD DANIEL ACOSTA DE LA PARROQUIA ELOY ALFARO DEL CANTÓN MANTA, DE NOVIEMBRE 2006 A ABRIL 2007

Abstract

Keeping in mind the importance of such a vital liquid as the water, for the man's life, as well as for the nature that surrounds us, knowing the very diverse uses and their multiple sources of contamination that mean problems of health; it felt pertinent to carry out a study about the factors related with the strointestinal illnesses of hydric origin. The objectives of this investigation were to establish the magnitude, the graveness and characteristic of the hydric illnesses, to identify the environmental factors related with these illnesses, to determine the cultural factors partner related with the hydric illnesses; to establish the medical care process in these pathologies, to spread a program of qualification for the safe water consumption in the population and make a rise of mapeo the clinical card and of risk. It was a type of Traverse Descriptive study that was carried out in the canton Manta located to 0 º, 55' and 35" of south latitude, and to 80 º, 43' and 2" of longitude west whose population is mostly urban. The population universe conformed it the patients assisted with gastrointestinal illnesses in the Operative Units of the M.S.P Center of Health Manta, Subcenter of Health Santa Clara and Center of Health Daniel Acosta. The data were obtained of the Clinical Histories, of the registration of A.I.E.P.I it stops smaller than 5 years, of the EPI 1 local and EPI 2. To 30% of these patients they were applied a survey related with the access to basic services and hygiene of consumption of foods. They took 3 samples of water that they were subjected to bacteriological analysis for the INH of Portoviejo. The Parasitism was the most predominant pathology inside the illnesses in study, most of investigated people have access to drinkable water, to the service of gathering of garbage and the system of sanitary sewer system. The factor partner - cultural it influences it is the good habits of hygiene and in the not very frequent consumption of foods in the street. The diagnosis of this pathology was generally clinical and the combined treatment of bencimidazoles and mitronidazoles. The study of the water indicated that the value of residual chlorine in all the samples was inside normal values and presence of coliformes contamination didn't exist.