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Mar 15, 2011

Nursing care of premature infants be very careful

Many nouns are heard in preterm infants, but what kind of neonatal in premature infants is this? Medically speaking, pregnancy weeks < newborns born 37 weeks for premature infants, birth weight less than 2500g. In preterm infants in China at the rate of live births for 0.68% in preterm infants due to the development of immature, immunosuppression, thus mortality rate higher than term infants.


From the appearance of point of view, premature infants are generally small, head body small, weak skin, sometimes capillaries under the skin can look, therefore wear clothing to soft, do not have buttons, do not scrape the skin, or prone to cause infection leading to sepsis. Thermoregulatory function in preterm infants, and its body temperature often changes with the temperature, if the harm is caused by a disease of the skin and subcutaneous fat are hard, that is, scleredema, babies milk, body temperature cool or even vomit blood, the most serious complication called pulmonary hemorrhage occurs; if the ambient temperature is too high, the child is heating. Therefore, after the birth of premature infants, it is best to hospital care for some time, to enhance its vitality and then go home.


Premature infants \' physical growth is faster, needs more nutrients, but its poor digestive function, therefore according to its characteristic small, frequent meals, not too much of each feed, milk not strong, but to 1-2 hours according to their need to feed a, preterm infants due to less body energy reserves, not supplementary hypoglycemia can occur in a timely manner and ventilation. Therefore on the care and feeding of premature infants guided by the best professionals.


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