Abstract

MIRANDA GUERRA, Amauri de Jesús; HERNANDEZ VERGEL, Lázaro Luís  and  ROMERO RODRIGUEZ, Celia. Vaginal infection in pregnants and its incidence in indicators selected from Mother Child Program. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2010, vol.26, n.2. ISSN 0864-2125.

Introduction: in the mother child care, infections are among the three causes of mother death, together with hemorrhages and high blood pressure. Objectives: to describe the clinical-epidemiological picture of vaginal infections and the pregnants distribution presenting these infections according to the indicators selected from the Mother Child Program. Method: a cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted in pregnants admitted in the "Mariana Grajales Coello" maternal home from Playa municipality of La Habana during three years (2006-2008). Sample included 182 pregnants diagnosed with vaginal infection according to the syndrome management protocol of vaginal discharge. Study variables included: age, diagnosis time, admission time, type of vaginal infection and response to treatment and Mother Child Program indicators. For information collection the documentary and observational method from medical records was used. Results: the 31.31 % of sample were adolescents, the 40.66 % were admitted during the second and the third trimester of pregnancy, presence of moniliasis in the 48.35 % and the 12.08 % gave birth low birth weight children. Conclusions: incidence of vaginal infections in the "Mariana Grajales Coello" maternal home is high with predominance of moniliasis which in most of women evolve adequately to treatment prescribed. The low birth weight is the more affected indicator of Mother Child Program.

Keywords : Vaginal infection; pregnancy; Maternal Home.

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