A ATUAÇÃO DA EQUIPE DE ENFERMAGEM FRENTE À MULHER PORTADORA DE DIABETES GESTACIONAL

Abstract

This study analyzes the performance of the nursing team vis-à-vis women with gestational diabetes, since this pathology often goes unnoticed, considering that the attention is focused on the baby, leaving the woman's health to the background. This approach is justified by the fact that the disease results in excess blood glucose, increase the pregnant women's blood pressure, which can lead to premature labor and post-natal complications, besides the difficulties the baby's chances of developing chronic diseases are ma \ Ores, as it may present obesity, hypertension and diabetes. It is necessary for health professionals to have discernment when attending with caution to the woman, because often what occurs, is that women already diabetic before pregnancy, discover the disease only in pregnancy. Thus, this study intends by means of a bibliographical review. characterize aspects related to women's health in the prenatal and puerperium, as well as the prevention and treatment of gestational diabetes and in what ways the nursing team should act in the face of this pathology. It is concluded that the work of the nursing team is very important for the care and preservation of the health of the mother-child binomial and that through this care it is possible to avoid many future problems.