Tuesday, July 13, 2010

How to care for premature babies?

That premature children under the age of 37 weeks gestational age infant. Weight and gestational age small for gestational age that students should have the body weight compared with gestational age less than two standard deviations below the mean or average weight should be less than 20% of infants. If the pregnancy after 37 weeks when weight less than 2,500 grams and gestational age small for gestational age, but generally known as full-term low birth weight children.

Preterm children as immature organs, dysfunction, poor life skills, resistance to low, and therefore enhance the care of premature children.

Product child discharged home early after the first heat. Premature children living in general should be kept at room temperature 24 to 26 degrees and humidity kept at 55% to 65%.

Second, low immune function in premature children, vulnerable, and therefore actively prevent infection. Home with respiratory, skin, gastrointestinal tract infections in premature children not to enter the room, to prevent cross-infection.

Breast milk is the food of choice for premature children. Because breast milk contains protein, fat, sugar right proportion, rich in essential amino acids, particularly cystine necessary for premature children, taurine higher, while the adverse effects on the central nervous system of phenylalanine and Tyrosine low.

Weight premature children smaller stomach capacity is small, it should be fed several small ways to shorten the interval. Found that preterm children faster than full-term child growth and development in general to 2 years old weight, length of term with approximately the same age, low body weight of individual who can be close to 4 years late.

Premature children rely on medical staff and hospital medical equipment, special care, without parental worry, but after discharge of all maintenance responsibility must be borne by parents, and therefore recommends that parents should have the following items:

1. Prepare the necessary equipment: If the oxygen bags (bottles), suction tubes, feeding tubes and feeding syringes and so on.

2. Skilled phlegm chest shot back: This is the lung, trachea premature development of poor children is beneficial.

3. Feeding amount: just discharged home the baby, the first two or three days, their first meal of the feeding amount maintained in the hospital do not increase the original amount, to be adapted at home and then gradually increase the environment, because changes in the environment of the impact of the baby is quite large, especially the gastrointestinal function.

4. Feeding method: generally use less food and more intermittent feeding mode. One minute per drink milk, they put a bottle out of the mouth, so that baby can breathe smoothly about ten minutes, and then continue feeding, such intermittent feeding, can reduce the occurrence or breathing spits oppression.

5. Fed a special formula milk powder (such as the premature child milk): to promote digestion and increase nutrient absorption, growth of premature children benefit.

6. To maintain the proper temperature: the temperature in premature children and changes to the environment as sensitive, so pay attention to maintaining body temperature and temperature to a constant, so that poor adaptation disease.

7. On a regular basis back to hospital for check-up and treatment: such as audio-visual power, jaundice, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, brain ultrasound, nutrition counseling and acceptance of vaccination and so on.

8. Keep in touch with the physician to consult at any time: the original physicians taking care of the baby have a detailed understanding of their situation, are quite handy at the disposal; if for any other physician, on the baby's interests.

9. Skilled infants emergency surgery: If vomiting (choke) milk, convulsions, cyanosis when the color of emergency treatment.

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