A INCIDÊNCIA DE SÍFILIS CONGÊNITA NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE

Abstract

Congenital syphilis is a disease of great impact on public health, due to the great complications that can bring to the health of the pregnant woman and the fetus. In view of this, it is important to perform a prenatal procedure at the beginning of pregnancy. The objective of this work is to investigate the factors related to the incidence of congenital syphilis currently through a bibliographic review through the research sites. It is a Literature Review, with the purpose of gathering and summarizing research results on the subject to be researched, in a systematic and orderly manner, supporting the deepening of the knowledge of the subject, researching in the sites Bireme Scielo, PubMed and Google Scholar . With this research, it was verified that the nursing team is essential in the treatment and diagnosis by performing the prenatal consultations, understand about the drugs that will be used to treat syphilis in the pregnant woman, and also in the sexual partner of the same . It was concluded, then, that it is necessary to implant new ways of prevention aimed at the rupture of the transmission of the disease and that improvements are needed in the quality of prenatal care, since it can prevent the form congenital disease and capture the patients affected by acquired syphilis. Also, expand and qualify the preventive concepts of sexually transmitted infections.