Study the association between Enterobius vermicularis infection and enuresis among children in Al-Najaf city

Abstract

Enterobius vermicularis or pinworms infection is one of the most prevalent worms found in children worldwide, nocturnal enuresis is an involuntary and undesirable bedwetting beyond the age of anticipated bladder control. There is a possible association between certain infection and the propensity to develop nocturnal enuresis including intestinal helminth infection. The prospective study included (285) randomly selected children aged range (3-14) years from both sexes. The children were examined for E. vermicularis infection by the adhesive cellotape anal swap. Nocturnal enuresis rates were investigated before and after mebendazole treatment in children with E. vermicularis to search for the association between E. vermicularis infection and enuresis. The overall infection rate reported in this study was 37.89% (108/285) divided as 53.70% infection rate for females and 46.29%for males, there are no significant differences between male and female infection. The results showed that E. vermicularis is one of the most frequent intestinal helminths with nocturnal enuresis among children in Al-Najaf city. From the results, the percentage of children who had enterobiasis and enuresis before treatment mebendazole drug was 26.66%, whereas the percentage after treatment was 14.03%.