title: [Nutritional approach in pregnant and nursing adolescents: basic strategy to prevent risks]
abstract: OBJECTIVE: To present the different factors that can interfere in the neonatal evolution and results, as well as the approach strategic nutritional aspects in health promotion and attention of pregnant nursing adolescents. METHOD: National and international literature provided with subsidies to discuss and summarize practical and relevant aspects for the clinical assistance of pregnant and nursing adolescents, especially the lower age group. RESULTS: The approach to pregnant adolescents requires evaluation of parameters of clinical, nutritional, and psychosocial risk. Among the very young adolescents, in addition to those parameters, their gynecological age and physical growth stage are also relevant. The nutritional evaluation and the dietary orientation of the pregnant and nursing adolescents constitute support steps in health promotion and attention, preventing risks such as malnutrition, anemia, vitamin deficiency, in addition to low intrauterine growth, low birth weight and postnatal undernourishment. CONCLUSION: The complexity of the factors interfering in the course of precocious pregnancy requires deep knowledge of the problem by the health staff in order to be able to effectively to intervene in more critical and prior aspects of the health support for this risk group.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Neto