Measurement of Complete Blood Count among Normal Children Under Five Years old In Khartoum State from March- June 2014

Abstract

A cross sectional study was conducted in the city of Khartoum (Haj Yousif - Omdurman) in the period from March to June 2014 to measure total blood count among normal children under the age of five years old. Two hundred child of both gender from different regions of Sudan and the different economic levels were counted and were informed about study expected out come and agreement of their participate in the study .Structure questionnaire was used collect information that include (age, gender, type of breastfeeding food contet, educational level of the mother and taking iron supplements). . blood count sample were collected for use in laboratory investigation . Using statistical analysis (SPSS)for data analysis. The results showed significant decrease in the following parameters Hb.PCV. MCV. and McH with P-value < 0.05. and showed that the percentage of anemia in apparently healthy children drew 50.5% and 21.5% of the kids have normocytic normochromic anemia and 77.5% have a picture of microcytic hypochromic anemia and only 1% have a picture of macrocytic normochromic anemia. It also showed that there is significant effect of balance of food duration of breastfeeding, taking iron supplements and the level of education of mothers on average hemoglobin and hematocrit. with p value (0.00) . The main conclusion from the study there is significant effect in hemoglobin , hematocrit , mean cell volume and mean cell heamoglobin breast feeding iron supplement food content and level of mother education.