Indicators of the vegetative nervous system in children with acute and chronic giardiasis

• Ershova Irina B.
• Petrenko Oksana V.

Abstract

Aim of the work is to study of the initial vegetative status and vegetative regulation in patients with giardiasis are presented.

Material and methods. 132 children (mean age 10.93±3.7 years) were examined. Of these, 68 patients were diagnosed with an acute course of giardiasis, and 64 had a chronic course. In all cases, the diagnosis was confirmed by the detection of cysts and/or vegetative forms in the stool, and the serological method was additionally applied. The presence of a different helminthic parasitic invasion, in addition to the studied disease, was excluded. The comparison group was represented by 113 children without a parasitic invasion of the same age and sex (mean age 11.2±3.6 years).

Results and discussion. Vegetative status in the acute course of the disease was characterized by sympathicotonia, high vegetative reactivity of the hypersympathicotonic type. Children with a chronic course of giardiasis had a pronounced imbalance in vegetative regulation, characterized by a decrease in the tone of the sympathetic department at rest, an asymptoticotonic variant of the response to orthostatic loading.

Keywords:children, giardiasis, vegetative nervous system

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