Nutritional status among paediatric age group with chronic Renal failure undergoing hemodialysis.

Abstract

Objective was to evaluate the nutritional status of 23 children with chronic kidney disease receiving hemodialysis. Methodology: A structured interview questionnaire was designed and used to interview the child or mother. It includes nutritional assessment of the children under study, such as physical examination, anthropometric measurements, and laboratory investigations. Results: The current study found that11 boys (47.8%) and 12 girls (52.2%), undergoing regular hemodialysis. Age ranged from 1 to 14 years.73.9% had family history of hemodialysis, 95.7 % from the participants the duration of hemodialysis was 4 weeks and 73.9% from patients follow CKD and the majority of children under 90% of age and gender criteria had below normal weight, arm circumference, and triceps subcutaneous fat thickness and the average upper-to-lower body ratio was 1.1 and the average arm span-to-height ratio was 1, indicating proportional short stature in CKD Related to the clinical and laboratory characteristics of children with CKD. protein intake was significantly positively correlated with BUN, significantly negatively correlated with serum bicarbonate levels, the minimum albumin value was 3.0 mg/dl, and the maximum value was 7.1 mg/dl. Conclusion: In conclusion the age ranged from 1- 14 years,73.9% of patients follow CKD and many children (90%) of children had below normal weight and the average albumin value was 3.0-7.1 mg/dl. Therefore, nutritional assessment should be based on multiple methods, the results of which should be synthesized by a pediatric nephrology team to comprehensively assess how dialysis start date is associated with lower anthropometric measurements. Improving parental knowledge of nutritional dialysis is important.