女子高校生の体型意識が健康や食生活に及ぼす影響について

In these days, skinny young women are increasing and it has become a major health problem. So we investigated their realities and consciousness for skinniness, life style, eating habits and subjective symptoms of fatigue. Based upon this investigation, we studied the effect of women's aspiration for skinniness on their health and eating habits, and the needs of adolescent health education and its ideal way. As the result, average BMI of 15 and 17 years old was lower than that of 2005's national health and nutrition research. In addition, the above average fell below the average of the school health survey results at all classes and skinny trend became clear. Further, among the normal body group, 67.1% students have obesity awareness and 84.5% skinny intention, which suggests that they have unnecessary skinny desire. As for the awareness of the issues for eating habits, it was revealed that the more prone to obesity the higher the awareness and the more skinny the lower the awareness. From this research, we derived the fact that the ratio of fatigue, anemia and menstrual irregularity is high among the skinny which might affect health, though a significant correlation was not found between anemia by skinniness and menstrual irregularity. Therefore, various health problems such as skinny intention in puberty, anemia by skinniness and menstrual irregularity could remain great challenges for health education. High school girls are now at an important stage where adulthood, pregnancy and childbirth are just behind them. Therefore, it seems essential to have them recognize and interest in proper weight, mechanism of skinniness, various health problems such as anemia by skinniness, menstrual irregularity and eating habits vital to health. On top of that, health education is needed so that knowledge and skills about the eating habits can be acquired

Sero-Epidemiology of Rotavirus Gastroenteritis in Children in Ilorin, Kwara State

Rotavirus is responsible for the most severe dehydrating diarrhea among young children due to gastroenteritis. In this study, we aimed to ascertain the occurrence of childhood gastroenteritis caused by Rotavirus among infants and young children who are younger than 5 years of age in Ilorin, Kwara State and determined the risk factors posing the challenges to be susceptible to diarrhea associated with rotavirus in Ilorin, Kwara State. Diarrhea stool samples were collected from children who passed watery stools, who met predetermined inclusion criteria and who presented at the study hospitals Viz: General Hospital and Specialist Hospital Alagbado and Children Specialist Hospital, Igboro. All within Kwara State either on outpatient care basis or those admitted into the pediatric ward. Sample of stool habouring rotavirus antigens was detected by commercial Rotavirus IgM ELISA kit to target recent infections among the participants. Out of three hundred (300) stool samples that were collected from children suffering from acute diarrhea, a total number of eighty-six (86) were found to be Rotavirus positive (28.7 %) and two hundred and fourteen (214) were found to be negative (71.3%). The age group 3-5 years, showed the highest prevalence rate which is in line with some research findings that attribute this age range with certain feeding habits and cultural practices, predisposing them to gastroenteritis. It is therefore advised that parents and guardian alike should ensure that special care is given to children, with emphasis on their feeding habits and sanitation