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HEALTH - Premature infants can develop a healthy and normal if they receive good medical care after birth. Experts suggest that special care and optimal for babies born before 37 weeks of pregnancy.
Although the number of premature babies develop normally after birth, still most of them are still likely to experience health problems that can affect their growth and development.
According to Nupur Gupta, Obstetrician in Gurgaon's Well Woman Clinic, organs of premature babies, especially before 37 weeks, are not fully developed and they will face different problems such as issues related to the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, eating, and brain problems.
These babies may also be vulnerable to the risk of developing an infection hypothermia, cerebral hemorrhage, and retinopathy of prematurity. The infant care depends on the conditions and the level of prematurity at birth.
More than 3 per four premature babies could be saved with caution
Kumar Ankur of the Association of Consultant Pediatrician and Neonatalogy Department, BLK Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi said, a premature baby needs special care in the form of care incubator, intravenous nutrition specifically, ventilator to support breathing problems, the facility to filter holes forum in the heart, and check up of the retina.
The survival rate of premature infants depending on gestational age at birth. Prematurity is categorized in preterm mild, moderate and severe.
If premature lightweight and gets the best medical treatment, the survival rate is about 75 percent of premature babies after birth.
Treatment and type of medical action premature babies are also dependent on their breathing. Treatments such as kangaroos or kangaroo care and breastfeeding also plays an important role for the care of premature babies, as important as skin to skin or skin contact with the mother.
Nutrients found in breast milk can give a tremendous impact on the health of premature babies. Caring for premature babies require a lot of care and attention.
Some premature babies may require fluids given intravenously or through a tube in the early stages.
