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Mar 15, 2011

Family nursing for preterm infants

Your premature infant discharged to go home. At this point, you\'re ecstatic, but overwhelmed. The emaciated children, whether or how to better take care of him?


30 years of little green unfortunate patients with severe hypertension during pregnancy, a last resort, in 32nd week of pregnancy for a caesarean, gave birth to a baby weighing only 1300 grams (a little boy).


Baby after birth because of breathing difficulty, and by the implementation of endotracheal intubation, and introduce a tracheal intubation by known as the \"Lung surfactant\" promote lung maturation of drugs, went on to use oxygen and artificial respirators 3 days. Little guy was gradually able to breathe independently, may still need to cultivate in the incubator.


Due to insufficient milk effort, nurses each time the feed is not to let him suck the milk bottle, but by a fine from the nostrils of insert gastric tube, special formula in preterm infants in the milk and breast milk slowly into the stomach. In this way, children\'s weight day by day growth, life day by day to improve capacity.


When you weight up to 2000 gram, the children finally was moved out of the incubator, and started trial bottle feed.


When you weight up to 2,500 g, little green couple has been notified, their baby can go home. While in the ecstatic, more of a concern. Home How to take care of the baby? When a child visits sth


Special Recommendation: home care has many points of the baby is preterm birth in preterm infants! How to care?


Preterm infants in the world needs more care


Shiyue pregnant, give birth to a child, birth of new life. Few lives can be early came to this world for various reasons. Shiyue pregnant we mentioned, refers to the 40 weeks of pregnancy; if the baby was born in the less than 37 weeks of pregnancy, medically referred to as premature. In preterm infants with birth weight less than 2,500 grams (5 Jin). Because of the premature babies are mature enough, after the birth in the hospital for special care and treatment of neonatal intensive care center.


Preterm premature in 6 areas:


1. unable to maintain normal body temperature, so needs to be incubating in the incubator in preterm infants.


2. breathing difficulty or breathing out. Immature lung affected in premature infants with respiratory, often artificial respirators and special drugs, to help it mature.


3. liver function in preterm infants with immature, so skin jaundice occurs early, and degree of heavier. Process does not take timely measures such as phototherapy control jaundice appears irreversible damage of the brain called bilirubin encephalopathy--medicine.


4. immature liver function in preterm infants can also lead to systemic bleeding, especially cerebral hemorrhage, intestinal bleeding. Maintaining body temperature stable, normal blood glucose of premature infants, respiratory smooth is the basis for prevention of hemorrhage.


5. nutrition is fundamental to human existence. Preterm infants often do not normally suck, you need one root insert gastric tube feeding, and normal breast milk or formula cannot meet his needs, need in breastmilk and breast milk additives.


6. the newborn\'s immature immune system development, especially in premature infants. Systemic infection are the most prone to body disease in preterm infants. Injection of immune globulin and antibiotics necessary, prevention and control of infection.


Through this \"six close\" post, is likely in preterm infants discharged to go home. When a child is hospitalized, the whole family for the baby worry, anxiety; learned that baby is discharged from hospital, the family also is confused, overwhelmed. Reason is that parents do not know how to take better account of the emaciated children at home.


When preterm infants following hospital discharge sth


Premature infants after discharge from hospital, doctors should be together with the parents concerned about the health of children. Areas of concern include:


1. patient feeding


Feeding is the basis for growth and development. Because of the little baby is going through a painful ordeal, the poor capacity than normal babies, characterized by insufficient strength born of desperation. Kids small mouth, should select the right nipple; due to insufficient sucking your strength, patience should be fed. General early discharge, breast-30-40 minutes at a time. Moreover, feed the children often during sleep. Touch wake the baby ear, complete feed. Because the controlled development of cardiac muscles at the entrance of the stomach is not mature, very prone to vomiting after feeding. This phenomenon, children should be placed in lateral position. At this point, side of the mouth is lower, vomit easily outflow of remains in the oral oral.


Editing Tip: don\'t end holding the baby, so leave the mouth of vomit will choke into the airway, causing aspiration pneumonia.


2. vaccination


When you child body weight up to 2000 gram, consider implementation of the vaccination. Because of the different child birth weight, experiences of different disease processes, sooner or later larger differences of up to 2000 gram. Future vaccination programs can vary from person, by a doctor for your child to develop special vaccination schedule. Parents should be according to the schedule for this special local vaccination for children in the health sector.

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