Abstract
Growth in height and weight is considered as indicators of nutritional status; theyrespond to both genetic and environmental factors such as nutritional value of the diet,exposition to infectious and parasitic diseases, sociocultural and psychoaffective context.This study concerns the relationship between splenomegaly as an indicator of a chroniccontext of parasitic load and the growth in height or weight of preschool children fromrainforest Southern Cameroon. The anthropometric study shows that 31,6% of the 0-6 yearsold children are stunded and 3,6% wasted. The height retardation follows the evolution ofthe spenomegaly. The results are in accordance with the importance of infectious factors,especially paludism in the installation and the perenniality of a chronic malnutrition status.