Frecuencia de gastroenteritis aguda por rotavirus en niños de 0 a 3 años de edad atendidos en el área de pediatría en un hospital general de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Acute Gastroenteritis is defined as the elimination of three or more unusually liquid or soft stools in a period of 24 hours, in Ecuador, the statistics of the disease indicate that gastroenteritis is one of the most common diseases that are treated in the establishments that are part of the public health system. Therefore, the objective is to determine the frequency of acute rotavirus gastroenteritis in children from 0 to 3 years of age seen in the pediatric area of a hospital in Guayaquil. The methodology used was of descriptive type with quantitative methodology to know the frequency of acute gastroenteritis due to rotavirus in the area of pediatrics, for the collection of data an indirect observation of 50 patients was carried out that were attended during the month of December. As a result it was evidenced that gastroenteritis is common in patients who are 0 to 12 months of age, male (66%), who presented signs such as diarrhea with and without blood (42%), who received mixed breastfeeding ( 38%), had a family history mostly in the parents (22%), have not complied with the vaccination scheme (22%), which is why 44% have dehydration. We can conclude that these data allow us to show that there is a high frequency of acute gastroenteritis and that the necessary preventive measures are not being taken, so they must be modified to avoid their high frequency.