Scabies infection and nutritional status profile on pediatric patients’ general hospital Dr. Soetomo Surabaya
1 Medical Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
2 Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
3 Department of Public Health Sciences Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
4 Department of Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2022, 15(02), 021–028
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2022.15.2.0795
Publication history:
Received on 30 June 2022; revised on 01 August 2022; accepted on 03 August 2022
Abstract:
The parasitic infection caused by mite Sarcoptes scabiei, scabies, is widely known as one of the world's highest morbidity of skin infections. WHO classified scabies as one of the Neglected-Tropical-Disease. Scabies has several risk factors, and one of them is malnutrition. This study aimed to know the scabies infection profile and the nutritional status of patients in pediatric dermatology division, general hospital Dr. Soetomo Surabaya.
This is a retrospective study from secondary data collected by evaluating medical records from pediatric patient aged 0 – 60 months. The data were analyzed using the descriptive methodology to measure the frequency and percentage of each variable. The results showed that most of the patients are male, below 1 year old, and had good nutritional status (31.6%)measured using the weight-height index from WHO. Furthermore, most of the samples had upper extremity as the common region with scabies lesion, and papule is the most common lesion found on patients.
Keywords:
Scabies; Nutritional Status; lesion; Body Region; Skin Infection; Children
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