Desnutrición en lactantes que tengan anquiloglosia en el Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil IESS Los Ceibos de junio del 2021 a junio del 2022.

Abstract

Introduction: Ankyloglossia, sublingual frenulum or tied tongue, is a congenital oral disease that can cause complications in the newborn as well as breastfeeding problems, as well as wheezing and other lingual sounds. Objective: To determine the prevalence of infants who present malnutrition due to ankyloglossia in the General Hospital of the North of Guayaquil IESS Los Ceibos from June 2021 to June 2022. Methodology: A universe of around 600 patients was collected, of which 261 were outside the established age range, 190 were left out of the study, since they did not meet the inclusion criteria. As a result, 149 patients remained as the final sample for this study with the respective CIE-10 code. Results: Of our population of 149 patients diagnosed with ankyloglossia, 95 of these patients were male (63.76%) and the remaining 54 were female patients (36.24). Our study population was directly related to the bibliographies that we analyzed, the same ones that have a higher prevalence in men, due to the close relationship of this pathology with the x chromosome. Conclusion: We were able to verify in our work that low weight is linked to the type of frenulum presented by the patient, for which there would be no way to prevent it, but in the first instance if it is treated, it would have no reason to generate all the indicated complications.