Medicated and Non-Medicated Sitz Baths for Episiotomy Wound Healing in Government Hospital Postnatal Moms, Gwalior”- A Quasi-Experimental Study

Abstract

Background

Each woman's experience of labour is unique, yet it is always a miraculous part of nature. For a woman, this may be a game changer. There is no other time in a woman's life when she will encounter such a unique collection of mental, emotional, and physiological hurdles as the first time she gives birth. Birth-related damage to the perineum or genital tract may complicate the postpartum period for new mothers. The episiotomy procedure involves making an incision in the perineum to increase the size of the vaginal opening during delivery and to protect the uterine lining from trauma.

Objective- Episiotomy wound healing was studied using a comparison of medicated and unmedicated sitz baths in a study done at the Gwalior Government Hospital. Quasi-experimental methodology and an assessment strategy were utilised in the research. Fifty participants were picked by a non-random process known as convenient sampling, yielding an overall sample size of fifteen. The information was compiled using the REEDA scale.

Results- The study found that postnatal mothers' levels of episiotomy wound healing differed significantly between the pre-and post-test periods.

Conclusion- This suggests that sitz baths, whether medicated or not, have a positive effect on episiotomy wound healing. The medicated sitz bath greatly outperformed the non-medicated sitz bath in terms of post-test healing scores, proving its superiority. Furthermore, there was no discernible correlation between the speed with which the episiotomy wound healed and other sociodemographic variables.