Important visual inspection
Premature babies eye screening is important to avoid problems such as retinopathy of prematurity.
Being born too early leads to greater attention, to avoid the baby may suffer a problem. The premature baby’s eye check is important to avoid future problems.
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Nutricia will advise new parents about healthy nutrition for their baby or toddler. Baby Food division through parent group Numico baby food advieslanceerde Tuesday’s Feeding for Life program.
The central theme of the program is the importance of proper nutrition in the first years of the subsequent health of the child.
“We are the role of caregiver does not take over. Educators continue to parents. But we found that parents in the Netherlands are not aware that good nutrition is important for later, “said Gijsbert Dezaire, Managing Director of Nutricia Netherlands. “We are the baby food company in the Netherlands. So it suits us. And we have the knowledge and experience about food and about the issues that mothers face. ” (more…)
- Hearing loss (hearing loss) is the most common congenital disease in the newborn.
- 3 to 7 of every 1,000 babies have some degree of hearing loss. 50% of infants with hearing impairment are born healthy, no family history and no risk factors.
- For more than minimal hearing loss is a baby will interfere with their development.
Hearing loss is a hidden handicap, so its detection, diagnosis and intervention are delayed. Until very recently, hearing loss is detected late, generating significant delays in the child developing speech and language, as well as delays in the acquisition of their learning, thus compromising their future.
From the moment of birth, babies begin to develop language. Babies learn to talk through what they hear, the baby who has difficulty hearing have difficulties in language development.
It is important not to forget that language is the basis for the development of their learning beyond.
Since it is possible to check the hearing of the baby just born babies who have some hearing loss can get help before 6 months of life, avoiding significant delays in their learning that differ from their peers.
This behavior must always be a concern, especially if it evolves the normal increase in weight. You should consult your pediatrician to rule out any disease and, if the baby is healthy, he will give you some advice (avoid excess shelter you numb not to establish a more rigid feeding schedule, etc. .).
Milk intolerance
The baby is too apathetic or irritable. Other symptoms include vomiting, rash, diarrhea or poor weight gain. First one, several or all of these symptoms, the doctor must rule out the possibility of allergy to milk or inborn metabolic disorders. In either case it requires feeding with formula milk adapted special.
Jaundice may persist after birth to 10 and 15 days. When held within that time and the baby breastfeeds, it is very possible that in the case of breast milk jaundice. This disorder is due to the fatty acid content of milk inhibits the normal metabolism of bilirubin. In these cases the urine is clear and there is no blood incompatibility with the mother. Should consult with your pediatrician, but this jaundice is not serious at all. Only in the event that was very intense, feeding should be discontinued a few days but generally not necessary.
In the first four months the baby should double their birth weight, so you need to eat much and often. Each baby follows its own rhythms of sleep and food, whether it is performed by breast and bottle.
Even if the baby has a great capacity to adapt, you may experience some digestive problems that require attention:
Muguet
This fungal disease (thrush) is characterized in that the baby has a whitish spots, as dregs of milk on the lips and inside the mouth (gums, tongue, palate or inside of the cheeks). This fungal infection causes irritation and discomfort in the mouth, preventing normal food.
In these cases, the pediatrician prescribes an antifungal treatment based on local or general because the thrush may spread to the buttocks. It is also very important to follow a strict physical care during the 10 or 15 days that the problem may persist.
The baby spits up and eject small amounts of milk from the esophagus or stomach with no nausea or contractions of muscles of the abdomen. It is usual in the first weeks of life and will not affect weight gain. Regurgitation usually decrease with increasing age and disappear by eight months.
The baby does not know how to sleep alone, like cuddling, tummy hurts, he’s afraid of the dark … these are some major sleep disorders.
The baby wakes up at night and not sleeping well. Sleep sometimes becomes a problem. Understand what upsets the baby and act appropriately in different circumstances is the safest way to help restore its natural rhythm of sleep without falling into bad habits.
We offer a helpful guide to the most common sleep disorders and possible solutions:
• Everything is too new for him. He has spent the womb into an unknown world. The toddler has to become accustomed to external stimuli: he wakes up and cries often for no apparent reason.
What to do?
You have to transmit security. To help you fall asleep, put a lien on your cradle or doll.
• Still hungry. His life follows the rhythms of the hours of the meal is normal that when you take him off the night, the boy wakes up asking for milk.
What to do?
Delays everything when the last shot at night.
How to prevent and treat it?
Ringworm is a skin infection caused by microscopic fungi which, according to the affected area takes on different names: tinea pedis, t. unguium, t. capitis, t. corporis, t. cruris or ringworm of the skin, nails, head, body, and English.
The most widespread form is ringworm of the feet, also called athlete’s foot, affecting mainly children who frequent the gym or pool. It may not show signs or cause redness between the toes, before the skin to macerate and break, causing intense itching.
If not controlled, the rash may spread to the rest of the foot and spread to the nails and sole. To eliminate athlete’s foot provided under doctor’s prescription, you can apply an antifungal cream, being careful to wash before the child’s feet and drying them carefully.
The ointment should be applied for 2-3 weeks and at least one more week after the disappearance of ringworm, but, apparently, the foot is already cured. In general, healing requires 2-3 weeks. Meanwhile, the child must wear suitable footwear. Avoid putting a child or plastic shoes too tight shoes, are preferable shoes of leather or natural fibers, to be changed often.
How to treat and what are the causes that trigger?
Contact dermatitis is the most common form of dermatitis and is a skin inflammation caused by contact with irritating or allergy-inducing substances (soaps, metals, cosmetics, perfumes, textiles, detergents, drugs, etc.)..
In the first case, the intensity of the disorder depends on the amount of substance that has been exposed. By contrast, in the case of an allergic dermatitis, once manifested, always fire when it comes into contact with the substance allergenicity, whether small or large doses.
The reaction of the child’s skin varies depending on the underlying cause. In general, at first feels itchy and blisters in areas of the body that have come into contact with the “ingredient guilty.” If the contact is prolonged, the blisters may spread. In the case of causing allergies and dermatitis caused by further reaction can occur months or even years before manifesting itself.
Therefore, it can happen that a substance used for a long time without ever having caused any reaction, causing dermatitis. The blisters break also causes the formation of a crust, inside which inflammatory cells are still present. This explains why, if the child scratches are formed in skin thickening.
The baby’s jaundice is not a real disease but a symptom that can indicate liver disease. When the baby has jaundice, their skin and sclera, the whites of the eyes assume a yellowish color. This is because the body quickly destroys red blood cells. Sometimes the stools are whitish and urine brown.
It is not a real disease but the symptoms that may indicate liver disease (eg hepatitis) or disorder can result in rapid destruction of red blood cells and, consequently, anemia, such as The fabismo. In general, red blood cells break down and are destroyed by the body every 120 days.
Hemoglobin, the protein that gives blood its bright red, is transformed into bilirubin, a yellowish color. Normally, the color change of the skin and sclera is so slow that it does not show. However, if red cells are destroyed quickly, the skin and whites of the eyes take on the characteristic yellow of jaundice.
This is a fairly common situation during the first days of life of the baby (jaundice is present in 60 per cent of children born at term and 80 percent of those born before term, caused mainly by the fact that child’s liver is still not entirely efficient), but less so in successive ages. The treatment of jaundice is different depending on the cause that has originated.
In the case of the newborn, for example, jaundice can have three different cases, depending on the underlying cause, be classified as physiological jaundice (treatment involves exposing the baby, the third to sixth day of life, blue light lamps during 12-hour cycles), jaundice due to breast milk (it may contain a hormone that decreases the liver’s ability to eliminate bilirubin) or jaundice due to an incompatibility between the blood of the mother and the child (thanks to prenatal testing, this problem can be identified from the beginning of pregnancy and can intervene to prevent its consequences).
Guidelines for the implementation of care and medical care.
1) Establish the diagnosis and obtaining a chromosome analysis
As soon as a newborn appreciate some of the features that commonly occurs in children with Down Syndrome, a scan will be performed physical and neurological comprehensive in order to establish the clinical diagnosis of Down syndrome.
It is desirable for you to scan a neonatologist, a pediatrician specializing in developmental or other experienced physician. Besides blood will be drawn to analyze chromosome. The chromosomal study results are then used for genetic counseling.
For example if the child has trisomy 21, the risk that the mother must return to have another child with Down syndrome is 1 / 100. But if the child has translocation Down syndrome, then parents will also be a chromosome analysis, because one of them can be a “balanced carrier. The genetic counselor is able to provide additional details.
2) Advice and emotional support to parents.
Once a child is born with Down syndrome, is of utmost importance that parents are informed and assisted by professionals with tact, compassion and truthfulness. This initial advice will have a vital impact on the subsequent adjustment of the parents.
