Práticas de higiene bucal em crianças durante o período de internação hospitalar.

Abstract

Pediatric pacients, when hospitalized, remain with compromised daily hygiene activities, which require execution and monitoring oral hygiene by the nurses department. This team must be prepared to do this procedure and consequently prevent infections coming through pathogens colonizers of the oral area, and also check the patients wellness could reduce the hospitalization time. There is no agreement in the literature about an ideal protocol for oral hygiene in hospitalized patients. Due to this data, this present paper aims to consider the frequency and methods of teeth brushing during hospitalization period to, further, suggest a protocol of oral hygiene based on scientific evidence. Characterized as an observational cross-section analytical study, the sample compounded by 289 children, from 0 to 12 years old uncompleted, accompanied by a person in charge, hospitalized at Santa Cruz hospital through Sistema Único de Saúde. The data was collected through a semi structured questionary, answered by the responsibles for the patients. Analyzing partial results, in a total of 112 children, was verified that 51,8% of pediatric patients don’t do any oral hygiene intervention during hospitalization period at the hospital. Besides this, the lack of information is a relevant fact on this paper, since 83% of the people in charge reported that they didn’t receive any kind of orientation about their child oral care maintenance during this period.