Profile of the infantile exogenous intoxications assisted in a specialized hospital of Goiânia-GO

Abstract

This study aimed to describe the profile of the acute exogenous intoxications, among children from 0 to 12 years of age, assisted in a specialized hospital of Goiânia between July and December of 2006. It is a study of the type descriptive, exploratory, with quantitative approach. The analysis demonstrated that most of the children lives in urban zone, being 53,7% coming from Goiânia-GO. Among the 121 cases, 51,2% corresponded to intoxications with individuals of the masculine sex, and in 80,2% the accident happened at home. The most frequent age group corresponded to children between 1 and 3 years, totaling 64,4% of the notified cases. The most common way of intoxication was oral, being exclusive in 116 cases (95,7%). The most common causal agent was the medicine (34%), followed by the mouse poisons (14%) and chemical products of household use (13%). Understands that knowing the profile of the infantile intoxications is possible to constitute subsidies that allow to work preventive and therapeutic aspects of these intoxications. In this context, the nurse takes a fundamental function, acting like as educator near parents and children, with the intention of reducing mortality rate and minimizing relative aspects to the morbid of this type of infantile accident.