Application of diet intervention in the treatment and nursing of children henoch purpura

Abstract

Objective To study the diet intervention in children henoch purpura and appropriate nursing strategy.Methods 78 cases of children henoch purpura from 2000 to 2005 as control group were treated with regular medication.111 patients from 2006 to 2011 were treated with diet intervention in addition to the regular medication as experimental group.Improvement of symptoms and occurring of relapse were monitored for both gToups.Results There was no acute abdomen seen for the experimental group.Purpura continuous time,recurrence rate and hospitalization time of the experimental group were (6.71 ± 1.29)d,( 1.38 ±0.19),(16.70 ±7.79)d,all significantly less than those of the control group (10.89 ± 3.56 )d,(3.72 ±1.13 ),(36.70 ±9.12) d,the differences were statistically significant (t =11.36,21.41,16.18,respectively;P ＜0.05 ).The relapse of abdominal pain and its continuous time of patients in the experimental group were 9.0％,(6.12 ± 1.69) d,significantly less than the values of the control group 25.6％,( 12.70 ± 2.92) d,the differences were statistically significant ( x2 =9.49,t =19.55 ; P ＜ 0.05 ).Conclusions Diet intervention showed effectiveness for acute abdomen prophylaxis of children Henoch purpura.It reduced the occurrence of acute abdomen,rash,and gastrointestinal symptoms. Key words: Children; Nursing; Henoch purpura; Diet intervention