Vitamin D Deficiency in Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Children Under 5 Years Old in Salah Aldeen General Hospital

Abstract

The aim of this study was carried out to determine the role of vitamin D deficiency in recurrent urinary tract infection in children below 5 years of age and importance of supplementation of vitamin D in such these infections. A cross sectional study hospital based was conducted in Salah Aldeen General Hospital-Iraq, during the period between 1st November 2017–27th February 2018. The study done on 100 children under 5 years old admitted to pediatric department, and classified into 2 groups (50 child with only recurrent urinary tract infection and free from other infections (cases) and 50 child was healthy children without infection (control). Most of cases was aged 2–3 years (26%), were female(64%), live in rural area about(84%), with only breast feeding (52%), about (64%) with illiterate mothers, most of them delivered in winter about (66%), with low socioeconomic level (60%) and insufficient sun exposure (78%), most of them with deficient serum vit. D level about (58%) with normal blood urea and serum creatinin level (96%), and urine culture of the recurrent UTI cases (34%) was positive, and (66%) was negative, about (82%) of positive urine culture results was E.coli, (12%) Proteus, and (6%) Klebsilla infection.