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Treatment

Prevention

Health professionals should question all women in the postpartum review, especially those that already had postpartum depression or previous depression, about mood changes, appetite, pleasure, sleep and feelings towards their babies.

This will help early detection of postpartum depression and therefore avoid important physical and mental damages on the baby's health that could happen from bonding difficulties and from mother-infant attachment (grade B recommendation).
There are strong evidences that counseling and postnatal intervention decrease depressive symptoms and depression (grade B recommendation).

Geral Approach

Biological, psychological and social aspects are evaluated and treated in the general approach in individuals with mood disorders. Click on the buttons below:

Refer to the promotion of adequate sleep, pharmacotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy.

Refer to the individual or group psychotherapy.

Refer to unfavorable family situations and the lack of information and education on postpartum mood swings, as well as economic stressors, which can be directed to the relevant social networks.

The risk of postpartum depression is high (25%) in women with a history of depression and especially high when there is a history of postpartum depression (50%).

Brasil. Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Atenção à Saúde. Departamento de Atenção Básica. Atenção ao pré-natal de baixo risco / Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Atenção à Saúde. Departamento de Atenção Básica. – Brasília : Editora do Ministério da Saúde, 2012. 318 p.: il. – (Série A. Normas e Manuais Técnicos) (Cadernos de Atenção Básica, n° 32)