Home Care - How to Relieve Severe Nausea in Pregnant Women

Home Care - How to Relieve Severe Nausea in Pregnant Women

Obstetrical Nursing  

Home Care - How to Relieve Severe Nausea in Pregnant Women

Nausea is the sensation issued a strong food or want to vomit. Vomiting sensation is accompanied by signs of autonomic, such as hypersalivation (excessive saliva expenditure), diaphoresis, tachycardia, pallor, and tachypnea. Nausea is closely linked to the occurrence of anorexia and vomiting.

Nausea can also occur due to take medication, the effects that occur after surgery and radiation. Nausea often occurs during the first trimester to a pregnant woman.
Nausea can also be caused by extreme pain due to accidents or other issues, anxiety, alcohol poisoning (drunk) because of excessive consumption, or it can also be caused by food and beverages are not tasty.

Nausea during early pregnancy is often called morning sickness, because it generally occurs in the morning. Really just happened the morning ?, Not really, because there are some pregnant women can occur at any time throughout the day. Because the exact cause is unknown, treatment of this problem can have different effectiveness. But do not worry because there are some things you can do.

Increased estrogen and thyroxine become one of the causes of nausea in pregnant women. Sometimes in some women, the nausea lasts until severe. Therefore to avoid it, you can do some of the following home care.

Get plenty of rest
When you are pregnant, you are advised to have plenty of time to rest. Rest will make your body relax and minimize fluctuation of hormones that can cause nausea.

After sleep, get up slowly
When waking from sleep, get up slowly. If you wake up suddenly, then there is a jolt that will shock your body and can make you sick.

Eating healthy food
While pregnant, avoid foods that can trigger nausea. One of them is caffeine. Caffeine is a proven bad for your pregnancy because it can increase the acid in the stomach which would exacerbate nausea.

Increase your physical activity
Physical activity you do, can reduce severe nausea because physical activity will accelerate your body's metabolic system so that you avoid nausea.

Nursing Diagnosis and Interventions for Cirrhosis of the Liver

Nursing Diagnosis and Interventions for Cirrhosis of the Liver

Nursing Diagnosis and Interventions for Cirrhosis of the Liver  

Nursing Diagnosis 1.

Self-Care Deficit related to fatigue and the presence of ascites.

Goal: The client is able to care for themselves.
Expected outcomes: The client is able to show self-care activities.

Interventions :

1. Give the rest during the acute phase.
Rationale: Increased rest and tranquility providing the energy that is used for healing.

2. Give light activity during bed rest.
Rationale: Bed rest time, can reduce the ability, this is precisely the case due to the limited activities that disrupt the rest period.

3. If the client is tired, limit visits of family or friends.
Rationale: Increase rest and tranquility providing the energy that is used for healing.


Nursing Diagnosis 2.

Imbalanced Nutrition Less Than Body Requirements related to anorexia.

Goal: Nutrition clients are met.
Expected outcomes: The client is able to exhibit a lifestyle to improve or maintain an appropriate body weight, showed weight gain goals with laboratory values, and freely sign of malnutrition.

Interventions:

1. Observation vital signs.
Rationale: To determine the general state of the client.

2. Monitor dietary intake, or the number of calories and provide little in the frequency often.
Rationale: Eat a lot harder when the client anorexia. Anorexia is also the worst during the day, make food intake difficult in the afternoon.

3. Provide oral care before meals.
Rationale: Eliminate sense, it can not increase the appetite.

4. Monitor blood glucose.
Rationale: hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia can occur require changes in diet or insulin administration.

5. Collaboration: Consultation with a dietitian to provide a diet in accordance with the client's needs with the input of fat and protein as tolerated.
Rationale: Allows to create a diet program for individual needs. Protein restriction is indicated in severe diseases like hepatitis.


Nursing Diagnosis 3.

Risk for Impaired tissue integrity related to bed rest, ascites and edema.

Goal: Do not damage the integrity of the skin.

Expected outcomes: Identify the risk factors and shows the behavior or technique to prevent skin damage.

Interventions:

1. Elevate the lower extremities.
Rationale: Improves venous return and decrease edema in the extremities.

2. Keep the sheets dry and free of creases.
Rational: Humidity increase pruritus and improve skin damage.

3. Cut fingernails to short, and give the gloves if desired.
Rationale: Prevent clients from injury to the skin, especially at bedtime.

4. Give the massage at bedtime.
Rational: Beneficial to improve sleep by reducing skin irritation.

Nursing Diagnosis for Glaucoma (Pre and Post Operative)

Nursing Diagnosis for Glaucoma (Pre and Post Operative)

Nursing Diagnosis for Glaucoma - Pre and Post Operative  

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases causing optic nerve damage. Glaucoma often affects both eyes, usually to varying degrees. One eye may develop glaucoma quicker than the other.Glaucoma is a condition which can affect sight, usually due to build up of pressure within the eye.

The exact causes of optic nerve damage from glaucoma is not fully understood, but involves mechanical compression and/or decreased blood flow of the optic nerve. Although high eye pressure sometimes leads to glaucoma, many people can also develop glaucoma with "normal" eye pressure.

There are four main types of glaucoma:

• Acute angle-closure glaucoma – which often has severe symptoms
• Chronic open-angle glaucoma – the most common type which often has few symptoms
• Developmental glaucoma – a rare condition affecting young babies
• Secondary glaucoma – caused by other conditions or eye treatments

Nursing Diagnosis for Glaucoma (Pre Operative)

1. Disturbed Sensory Perception (visual) related to the reception of sensory disturbances, impaired organ status.

2. Pain (acute / chronic) related to an increase in intra-ocular pressure (IOP)
characterized by nausea and vomiting.

3. Anxiety related to physiological factors, changes in health status, pain, possibility / reality vision loss.

4. Deficient Knowledge (learning needs) about the condition, prognosis, and treatment related to less exposed / do not know the source.



Nursing Diagnosis for Glaucoma (Post Operative)

1. Pain (acute / chronic) related to the surgical incision.

2. Risk for injury related to increased IOP, vitreous loss.

3. Risk for infection related to invasive procedures.