FACTORES RELACIONADOS CON LAS ENFERMEDADES GASTROINTESTINALES DE ORIGEN HÍDRICO EN PACIENTES QUE ACUDEN A LOS CENTROS DE SALUD DELOS CANTONES JARAMIJÓ Y MONTECRISTI. 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 gastrointestinal illnesses of origin hídrico. The objectives of this investigation are to establish the magnitude, the graveness and characteristic of the illnesses hídricas, to identify the environmental factors related with these illnesses, to determine the factors partner cultural related with the illnesses hídricas; to establish the process of medical attention in these pathologies, to diffuse a training program for the consumption of sure water in the population, and to carry out a rising of the clinical record and mapeo of risk. It is a type of Traverse Descriptive study that was carried out in the Cantones Jaramijó located to 0 degree 55 ' 31” of south latitude and 80 degrees 29 ' 16” of western longitude, and in the Cantón Montecristi whose location is to 1 degree 2 ' 3” south latitude and 80 degrees 39 ' of longitude west. The population universe conforms it the patients assisted with gastrointestinal illnesses in the Operative Units of the M.S.P. Subcentro of Health “Lcdo. Romeo San Andrés” of the canton Jaramijó and in the Center of Health “Montecristi” of the canton of the same name. The data were extracted 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 he/she was applied a survey, to the access of basic services and hygiene of consumption of foods. They took 3 samples of water in each canton which were subjected to bacteriological studies for the INH of Portoviejo. The Parasitosis was the most predominant pathology in preescolares in Jaramijó, as long as in Montecristi the affected group was the scholar, most of investigated people present access of drinkable water in Jaramijó, while in Montecristi in its majority consume well water. Both cantons have the service of gathering of garbage , but it is faulty the service of sanitary sewer system. The factors partner–cultural that influence they are the bad habits of hygiene and the consumption of foods in the street. The diagnosis of these pathologies is generally clinical and the combined treatment of bencimidazoles and mitronidazoles. The study of the water indicates hardness, the value of residual chlorine in all the samples it is below the internationally so much accepted parameters in Jaramijó like in Montecrist presence of coliformes contamination exists.