Influência Da Assistência De Enfermagem Na Profilaxia Da Hiperêmese Gravídica: Estudo Piloto

Abstract

The objectives of this study was to find out if nursing assistance given to pregnant women, specifically in relation to nauses and vomiting, would help prevent hyperemesis gravidarum. Nursing assistance consisted basically in orientation regarding diet and help in the solution of emotional problems, both given to the palíenles when they came to the out patient department for pre-natal control. Thirty pregnant women were studied. The data obtained were not significant, due probabity to a number of causes, including: small population; infrequent nurse-patient meetings; lack of control over the patients' diet. This study was therefore considered as a pilot study.

Hyperemesis gravidarum as a psychosomatic disorder

“…Another relevant point is that the digestive system tends to show signs and symptoms caused by emotional and metabolic changes, but which are also caused, above all, by psychological conflicts (LUI and FREDDI;1979). In this sense, tension and unresolved conflicts in relation to motherhood cause anxiety, which, if very intense and prolonged, tends to drain into the body and affect physiological functions.…”