All issues > Volume 26(2); 1983

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1983;26(2):137-142. Published online February 28, 1983.

Occult Blood in Children.

Soon Taik Rhim¹, Heon Sook Lee¹, Kyu Cha Kim¹

¹Department of Pediatrics，Jeonbug National University Medical School，Jeonju、Korea

Abstract

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

Keywords :Occult blood.