Abstract

LINARES, Roberyil; NUNEZ, Olynés  and  RIVERO, Anelsi. SELF-MEDICATION AND MATERNAL PRACTICES IN THE TREATMENT OF INFANTILE COLIC CONSULTATION WITH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CENTER. Gen [online]. 2017, vol.71, n.4, pp.124-131. ISSN 2477-975X.

Infantile colic is a behavioral syndrome of unknown etiology that affects healthy infants, self-limited to the first four months of life, characterized by inconsolable crying and irritability, and it´s experienced by parents with great anguish and desolation; Therapeutic approaches are varied but literature does not establish the most effective one. This study was aimed to know the most commonly used treatment by mothers who attended to the Children's Hospital Jorge Lizarraga consultation and compared it with a group of mothers who attend a private consultation. The sample consisted of 200 mothers to whom an instrument was applied. In both groups of mothers pharmacology treatment was used in 75% of cases, the use of medicinal herbs like star anise and empirical medication was only present in mothers who attended public center with 15%, producing complications in 92% patients, requiring hospitalization in 64% of cases, determining the type of treatment, complications and hospitalization presented statistically significant differences between the two groups studied.

Keywords : colic; infant; self-medication; maternal practice.

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