Clinical Investigation toward the Relationship between Habitual Bathing and Clinical Health Course during the Pregnancy, Based on the Questionaire Survey / 日本温泉気候物理医学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

  Habitual bathing varies greatly depending on the country and culture, showering style spreads in recent years in accordance with the age. So we investigate the habitual bathing of modern maternity and the effect of perinatal course.<BR>  An unidentified questionnaire was distributed toward the 204 puerperal women, who were delivered in Shizuoka Kosei hospital from April in 2011 to February in 2012. Questinaire consists of multiple-choice selection and free writing about the habitual and balneum bathing. By way of the combination between these results and the maternal events, we investigated the relationship of them. <BR>  The 204 puerperal women were divided into 99 primipara, 76 unipara and 29 multipara, who underwent the 12 threatened abortion, 35 threatened preterm delivery, 15 preterm delivery, 7 pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH), and 10 weak labor and 26 preterm rupture of the membrane. On the other hand, all the puerperal women had the habitual bathing every day, 38 of puerperal women (35%) had the style of showering every day, 45 of them had the style of bathing from 1 to 3 times a week, and 121 of them had the style of bathing for over 4 times a week. As compared with their distribution, there was the tendency that PIH was increased in the bathing group, otherwise the weak pains was increased in the showering group.<BR>  There is a little evidence how the habitual bathing depends on the factor and promotion of bacterial vaginosis, the style of bathing could encourage the cleanliness and maintain the vaginal flora through the puerperal course in this clinical survey.