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Abstract
Protein energy malnutrition (PEN) is more specific for children. It is generally considered as the most prevalent and serious nutritional disturbance among children in developing counteries (DeSilva, 1969)
Microscopic examination of stool has long been recognised as an important part of diagnostic study of infants and children with diarrheal illness and/or PEN. The stool examination was usually done for ova and parasites but the recognition and significance of stool examination for total and differential leucocytes was noticed firstly by J.ohnc—Harris (1972), who has noticed excess faecal leucocytes in patients infected with organisms which invade the intestinal mucosa as shigella, salmonella and invasive ! coli, on the other hand, no increase in the faecal leucocytes in viral diarrhea, cholera, non—invasive E..Coli and nonspecific diarrhea.
Fitzgerald and Clark, 1982 have stated that a stool pH less than 6.0 suggests bacterial action on malabsorbed carbohydrates, and malabsorption of reducing sugars (glucose, lactose but not sucrose) can be detected by greater than 0.5% reading by a clinitest tablet dropped into equal portions of liquid stool
The importance of early diagnosis of the aetLology and/or complication of PEN stimulated us to study the significancøof stool examination in cases of PEM not only for ova and parasites but also for pH, reducing sugar, ocult blood, total and differential leucocytic count.