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June 12-13, 2019 | Edinburgh, Scotland
Pediatrics and Clinical Pediatrics
2nd World Congress on
Current Pediatric Research | Volume: 23
Effect of vitamin A, zinc and multivitamin supplementation on the nutritional status
and retinol serum values in school-age children
Carmen Carrero Gonzalez, Gloria Lastre Amell, Maria Alejandra Orostegui, Linda Ruiz Escorcia and
Leandro Sierra Carrero
Universidad Simon Bolivar, Colombia
M icronutrient deficiency, known as hidden hunger,
represents the most common form of malnutrition
in the world. The lack of deficiency of vitamin A, iron, zinc
and folic acid contribute greatly to the diseases of the
world, depriving the body of micronutrients essential for
proper growth and development. The objective: to evaluate
the effect of supplementation with vitamin A, zinc and
vitamin A + zinc in schoolchildren, in the anthropometric
nutritional status and serum values. Methodology: After
informed consent, the students were grouped randomly
into three (3) groups: the group supplemented with
vitamin A (VA) (single dose: 100,000 IU, composed of 25
schoolchildren), the group supplemented with Zinc (Zn)
by 26 School children who were given liquid zinc sulfate
(dose: 12.5 mg) and the group supplemented with VA + Zn
by 29 schoolchildren, who received Vitamin A (single dose:
100,000 IU) + Zinc (12.5 mg of zinc sulfate). Result: The
students studied before and after the supplementation.
The three groups showed an increase in the average
values of weight, height and gains in weight and height
after supplementation. However, these differences were
not significant. In relation to the VA Group, the values of
serum zinc showed a statistically significant loss after the
intake of vitamin A supplement (DU). In this investigation,
a consumption of deficient adequacy in calories was
observed in all the students studied, predominantly the
consumption of flours, pastes and sugars. Observing an
adequacy of low protein consumption in girls. Conclusion:
The impoverishment of the Venezuelan population is one
of themost difficult problems facing the country, negatively
affecting the consumption of food, especially those of
animal origin, which compromises the consumption of
proteins of high biological value and micronutrients,
generating a deficit nutritional.
Speaker Biography
Carmen Maria Carrero Gonzalez is a specialist in Clinical Nutrition with
a PhD in Health Sciences. Universidad del Zulia Venezuela, directed
for more than 20 years nutritional recovery units for malnourished
children, has more than 30 research studies in child nutrition that have
been cited, has been a national speaker (Colombia and International), is
a member of the committee editorial of the magazine Nutrition Health,
currently belongs to the research group of Nefrologia recognized
worldwide and to the group of nursing care in the nutritional area.
He is a research professor in Nutrition at Simon Bolivar University and
advisor of the master’s degree in Food and Nutrition Security of the
University of Atlantico Barranquilla Colombia.
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Carmen Carrero Gonzalez et al., Current Pediatric Research, Volume 23
ISSN: 0971-9032