Survival of premature infants 3 challenge

Small for gestational age in born before 37 completed weeks of live-born child, called a preterm or premature infants. Most of its birth weight below 2,500g, head 33cm. Few really quiet and more than 2,500g weight in preterm infants, organ function, and adaptability is worse than the term infants are still premature infants should be given special care.

1, the substantial survival challenges

Challenge 1: low weight, poor function.

Babies born before 37 weeks of gestation is known as premature; birth weight less than 1000th with gestational age average weight of term or preterm infants, known as small for gestational age infants, also known as intrauterine growth retardation infants; they are not only weight is significantly less than the full term neonates, body organ function are worse than the normal newborn, unable to smoothly adapt to the external environment.

Even some babies to drink milk, also fatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis. Medicine to prematurity, intrauterine growth retardation infants and people with diseases of neonates are collectively referred to as a particular baby. In the just-born within a few days, these weak babies, especially suffering from disease of newborns need through the infusion of supplementary nutrition, life-sustaining, gradual transition to normal infants.

Challenge 2: the need for \"catch-up growth\".

Study finds that special baby born through early catch-up growth, to catch up with the other levels of development of the same age. And this \"catch-up growth\" is the best period in the first year after birth, especially the first half. Once this period best missed, is difficult to catch-up growth target. For special infants, faced with low weight, poor function and \"catch-up growth\" exception conspicuous contradiction between.

2, through the best choice

Today, most of us have learned breastfeeding is best food for newborns. But for special infants, breastfeeding alone has shortcomings. On one hand, simply breastfeeding not provided can satisfy \"catch-up growth\" development needs plenty of nutrients on the other, and full-term neonates with different, they do not have the ability to adjust the intake on their own to compensate nutritional deficiencies. To this end, the currently recommended for special babies use breast-Enhancer. Specific methods are as follows:

(1) for special without a breastfeeding baby, can give a special formula.

(2) at the time of breastfeeding, mothers can take breast enhancer, to meet the special needs of the infant. However these methods in hospitals, doctors adjusted according to the growth of a baby at any time.

3, with ordinary milk products are dangerous

Many parents in infants following hospital discharge with ordinary milk fed special baby, this is dangerous. In order to meet the \"catch-up growth\", special baby the nutrients you want more, more strict with milk. Special formula is more suitable for their growth and development needs, and can effectively prevent the occurrence of special infant nutritional deficiency and metabolic bone diseases. Survey shows abroad, with special special infant formula feeding 18 months, average weight, head circumference growth per week, significantly higher than the control group\'s special baby. When the two sets of children to grow up to seven or eight years old, intelligence test scores show that exclusive formula feeding children scored higher than the control group of children, especially boys gap is even more apparent.

Finally, it should be noted that, despite the special formula nutrient rich, more conducive to the growth and development of infants with special, but not a diet, more normal term infants should not be allowed to use. When special infant growth index caught the same age when babies, breastfeeding should promptly switched to normal formula or simple.