Mothers Awareness Regarding Eruption Of Teeth In Maternal, Childhood, And Family Planning Centre Sudan River Nile State Shendi Town Sudan 2017
Volume 3 - Issue 7, July 2019 Edition
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Author(s)
Mariam Mohamed Elnageeb, Shireen abdelfatah Mohmmed, Fatima Babiker
Keywords
Eruption, Knowledge, Mothers, Teething, Traditional management
Abstract
This descriptive, cross-sectional community based study conducted in Shendi town in maternal, childhood and family planning center, to assess mothers awareness regarding eruption of teeth of their children. In period extend from (September to December 2017). Hundred mothers were included in this study, data were collected through structured questionnaire and analyzed by (SPSS) program. The results showed that more than one third (31%)of studied mothers were knowledgeable about age of starting teething selected the age group between 6-7 months, while more than two third (76%) were aware about eruption of first teeth only less than one third (27%) of studied mothers were knowledgeable about all the symptoms associated with teething (fever ,pain, loss of appetite) also more than two third (78%) were aware about complication of teething and the majority of them (86%) using wood smoke for traditional management of the teething symptoms. The study recommended that Implement health education program by health educators to increase the mother’s knowledge regarding teething through organized health programs in different health centers and Provide Information through mass media for mothers about the risk of using of traditional management and the importance of medical management.
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