Narrativas e experiências de doenças e tratamento de crianças no bairro da Matola "J", Município da Matola

Abstract

The present research analyzes experiences of children's illnesses, based on narratives about treatment and cure of illnesses told by the children's caregivers in the neighborhood of Matola "J", Maputo province. The narratives and speeches of the children's caretakers allowed me to reflect and understand strategies and paths followed for the choice of treatment of diseases in children. From the speeches narrated by the participants, I could then realize that, there are several paths followed by parents, for the resolution of health problems in their children, this said, through the exchange of daily experience about symptoms and cure of a particular disease that occurs occurs in the interaction between the caregivers of the children in different groups that they belong to. The caregivers in some cases are able by themselves to identify the type of illness and provide solutions for this illness. Additionally, I understood that there are diseases that are known among the caregivers as diseases that all children have at birth, and others that can be transmitted from mother to child namely: n'weti, chickenpox or phavaphava, kutsamiwa, however, these diseases are treated at home with the use of specific remedies. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)