| Occult Blood in Children. |
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Soon Taik Rhim, Heon Sook Lee, Kyu Cha Kim |
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Department of Pediatrics，Jeonbug National University Medical School，Jeonju、Korea |
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임순택, 이현숙, 김규차 |
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전북대학교 의과대학 소아과학교실 |
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| Abstract |
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A study was made for investigation of occult in children according to age and sex distribution,
and correlation with disease, G-I problems, drugs, Hemoglobin and parasites.
The test group was 741 patients who were admitted in The Dept, of Pediatrics of Jeonbug
National University Hsopital from Jan. 1977 to Apr. 1981, and 241 cases of normal children.
In each cases a stool specimen was examen was examined to determine the presence of occult blood,
using the Benzidine method. The results were as follows:
1) 57.1% of the patients showed positive results and 37.8% of the normal children showed
positive results. 2) The highest positive rate(62.4%) was noticedin the children between 1 year and 4 years,
and the lowest positive rate(48.4%) was noticed in the children over 12 years.
3) The most common diseases were immunity, allergy and its related diseases, and were
followed by cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disease, infectious diseasese and urinary
system disease according to frequency. 4) The positive rate in patients with G-I problems was 64.9% and in patients without G-Iproblems was 49.0%. 5) The positive rate in patients with hemoglobin over 8. 0 gm% was relatively high(88%). 6) The occult blood rate in patients who were treated with antibiotics &steroids was relatively high, onthe other hand in patients who were treated with salicylates and hematinics was relatively low
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| Key Words:
Occult blood. |
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