Moisturizing cream to reduce the premature death of children

Introduction: the latest issue of British "Pediatrics" magazine published a study that children in the hospital for the premature skin smear sunflower oil or moisturizing cream to reduce the mortality rate.

UK latest issue of "Pediatrics" magazine published a study that children in the hospital for the premature skin smear sunflower oil or moisturizing cream to reduce the mortality rate.

Moisturizing cream to reduce the premature death of children

In the study of Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Cali Dr. Dement said, is the effect of these oils can improve the skin's barrier function to protect cells, reduce the water and heat loss.

Researchers at a hospital in Bangladesh on 497 within 33 weeks of pregnancy in premature newborns were tested. In addition to routine care, the 159 newborns received sunflower oil therapy, 157 received treatment with moisturizing cream, while 181 neonates served as controls. The first two groups in premature children born within 72 hours after the start sunflower oil or emollient body oil painting (except for facial and scalp outside), the first two weeks 3 times per day, followed by twice a day until discharge.

The researchers said that in the first month of the end of the control group, the survival rate was 29.4%, using the sunflower oil group survival rate was 34.2%, use a moisturizing cream of 45.8%. The study also found that coated sunflower oil and moisturizing cream for the two groups appear sepsis and skin infections and fewer cases. Darmstadter said: "Maybe the role not only in the skin moisturizing cream, because it is absorbed by the skin, blood system, may have systemic effects, may even affect stomach of 'barriers to feature'. Besides, I think, in the Apply moisturizing cream on the skin during the massage function is also very important. "