The Effect of Zinc and Vitamin C Additional on Healing Process of Second Degree Perineal Wound in Postpartum
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 9
Abstract
Background: The intake of nutrients is one of the important factors affecting the wound healing process, one of which is zinc and vitamin C Objective: To assess the effects of zinc and vitamin C additional on healing process of second degree perineal wound in postpartum. Methods: The design of this study used experiments with a post test only control group design. With a simple random sampling technique, 50 respondents were selected from the population, consisting of 24 respondent were given zinc with a dose 20 mg, 1x1 daily for 7 days and 26 respondent were given vitamin C with a dose 100 mg, 1x1 daily for 7 days. Data analysis with Mann Whitney test. Result: The addition of vitamin C to postpartum mothers with second degree perineal wound have a shorter duration of healing time than postpartum mothers who given zinc, i,e (8,15 days for vitamin C group and 9,13 days for zinc group) and have better perineal wound score where in vitamin C group the respondents that healed are 16 (61,5%) than zinc group where the respondents that healed are 7 (29,2%) in 7th day of assessment. Conclusion: The addition of vitamin C is better in shortening the healing process of the second degree perineal wound compared to the addition of zinc
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Listyaning Eko Martanti
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