AUDIÇÃO E EQUILÍBRIO DURANTE A GESTAÇÃO - UFSM

HEARING AND VESTIBULAR COMPLAINTS DURING PREGNANCY.
6.2 Summary
PURPOSE: verify hearing and vestibular complainsts in pregnant women.
METHODS: 82 pregnants participated on this study. For hearing and vestibular
complaints, a questionnaire proposed by Castagno (1994) was performed. Also to
compare results among gestational trimesters, pregnant were divided into 04 groups:
Group 1: all pregnant, Group 2: first trimester of pregnancy; Group 3: second
trimester of pregnancy and Group 4: third trimester of pregnancy. RESULTS: we
could observe that tinnitus was the main auditive complaint (33%) having no
difference among all groups. Tinnitus was present among 52,44% of all pregnant
and mainly in the Group 2. According to symptoms related to dizziness, vertigo was
the main auditive complaint in first trimester (22,72%), whereas instability (12,12%)
and walking imbalance (12,12%) were more frequent in second trimester and
instability (12,12%) and tendency to fall (11,11%) in the third trimester. Nausea was
the main symptom associated to dizziness in pregnant, being more frequent in the
first trimester of gestation. CONCLUSIONS: women during gestation present auditive
and vestibular complaints, mainly dizziness and tinnitus.
Keywords: hearing, dizziness, tinnitus, pregnancy, inner ear.
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