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Disease In Premature Babies
The premature baby are the risks arising from a lack of maturity of some organs are therefore not work well or are exposed to external aggression.
The problems of this baby are focused on the difficulty of adapting to the environment extrauterine by their immaturity and low weight. The smaller and immature, the greater the risk of diseases of the baby.
The respiratory, nervous, digestive, renal, immune and vision may be involved. The respiratory system is one of the most affected. Respiratory distress syndrome occurs as a consequence of the lack of surfactant protein that is responsible for the pulmonary alveoli are elastic and remain inflated or expanded. Read the rest of this entry »
Special care premature babies
Being parents of premature is not easy. Passage in an incubator, feeding difficulty, multiple examinations, long stay. A maternity, special care, even light, that receives little too early are sometimes difficult to bear. Instead of feeling reassured by the increased surveillance, young parents are rather confused face of this tiny baby and its apparent fragility. Its slender shape, its thin skin, sometimes a bit “wrinkled”, his few hairs … The physical characteristics of a premature infant may accentuate this feeling of anxiety. That did not last obviously. Although prematurity is often difficult lives, little by little, baby gains weight, her face relaxes, he is regaining strength … It just grows!
If a preterm delivery has visible consequences, other effects depend on the developmental stage of its vital functions at birth. In premature infants, respiratory, digestive, liver … are indeed more or less immature. Disorders or deficiencies related to the prematurity may therefore appear over time: difficulty breathing, weak stomach, anemia, iron deficiency or lack of vitamins … care, examinations and monitoring performed in motherhood, which is sometimes extend to return home, are there to detect and remedy any problems. These are very rare for premature babies, born after the 33rd week of pregnancy. In prematurity, we must distinguish “premature baby” of the “big premature babies”!
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