Deterioro cognitivo en niños preescolares asociado a deficiencia de hierro

Abstract

The approach to iron deficiency associated with neurodevelopmental cognitive problems in preschool children is a diagnostic challenge because iron deficiency is not identified until anemia occurs because of it, which may lead this group to be you present complications in motor or cognitive development that may impair the quality of life. Objective: To know the association of cognitive deterioration in preschool children and iron deficiency. Materials and methods: The following work is a narrative, retrospective study, this bibliographic review used articles from the last 5 years, in addition to the fact that they are included within Quartile 1 to 4 validated by the Scimago Ranking worldwide and with a total of 30 articles from multiple journals such as Pubmed, Elsevier, among others. Conclusion: Cognitive deterioration during the preschool stage due to iron deficiency can be generated by multiple causes, from a poor diet or malabsorption of the pediatric organism, including, it can be said that from the intrauterine fetal state due to maternal deficiency it can be an attributable cause and that it can be treated with administered micronutrients but that in turn this does not guarantee the correction of the deficit after its administration.