The The Correlation between Tuberculous Lymphadenitis and Nutritional Status in Children

Abstract

Tuberculous lymphadenitis may cause weight loss and lead to malnutrition in children.
This study analyzes the correlation between tuberculous lymphadenitis and nutritional
status in children. It was an analytic observational study with a cross-sectional design.
The population was pediatric patients under 18 years old with lymphadenitis, outpatient
and inpatient admitted from January 2018 to December 2020 in dr. Soebandi public
hospital, Jember, Indonesia. The samples were 76 respondents with total sampling.

There were 52 tuberculosis lymphadenitis patients in the case group, while 24 were non-
tuberculosis in the control group. The body weight data was from the medical record

when the first diagnosis of lymphadenitis. Instruments were weight-for-age z-score
curves (WHO, 2007) for under 60 months old children, while CDC Growth Charts 2000
for more than five-year-old children. Then, data analysis used the Chi-square test.
Mostly, tuberculous lymphadenitis patients were girls (65.4%), 12-17 years old (67.3%),
not underweight (61.5%), and lived in rural areas (73%). Furthermore, all of them were
given isoniazid, rifampicin, and pyrazinamide. In addition, 100% of them had successful
treatment. Meanwhile, most of the non-tuberculous lymphadenitis patients were boys
(54.2%), 6-11 years old (58.3%), lived in the rural areas (79%), and were not
underweight (66.7%). Treatment of the non-tuberculous lymphadenitis group consisted
of antibiotics, analgesics, vitamins, and symptomatic medicine. The Chi-square test
results obtained p=0.667 (p>0.05). In conclusion, tuberculosis lymphadenitis in the
early incubation period