The effectiveness of giving tomato juice and cucumber juice in reducing hypertension in second and third trimester pregnant women in PMB Lamria

Pregnancy is the process of the meeting of an egg cell and a sperm cell so that fertilization occurs, followed by implantation until the birth of the fetus. Pregnancy normally lasts 280 days or 40 weeks or 9 months.). 40 weeks of pregnancy is called a term pregnancy (term). Hypertension is systolic and diastolic blood pressure > 140/90 mmHg. Measurement of blood pressure is done at least 2 times 4 hour intervals. An increase in blood pressure > 30 mmHg and an increase in diastolic blood pressure > 15 mmHg as hypertension parameters are no longer used. The purpose of this study was to identify changes in blood pressure between administration of tomato juice and cucumber juice to pregnant women in the second and third trimesters. In this study, the researcher used a true experiment design pretest-posttest with control grub. The sample in this study were pregnant women in the second and third trimesters with hypertension as many as 28 people, the sampling technique used was total sampling. Research results Based on the results it is known that 14 respondents who were given cucumber juice mean post test rank of 15.79 while the other 14 respondents who were given tomato juice mean post test rank of 13.21. Based on the Mann Whitney test, the p-value was 0.363. Because the p-value is 0.363 > (0.05), it can be concluded that there is no significant difference in the decrease in diastolic blood pressure in the second trimester and third trimester pregnant women with hypertension between those given cucumber juice and tomato juice. Conclusion and Suggestions There is no significant difference in the decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure in pregnant women in the second and third trimesters with hypertension between those given cucumber juice and tomato juice.