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 HYPOTHERMIA
The hypothermia is the presence of a corporal temperature abnormally low in the newborn baby. It is a serious risk that can provoke even the death.
The hypothermia can be avoided drying quickly the newborn baby in the maternity ward (to avoid the heat loss for evaporation) and, next, wrapping it (even the head) with a warm blanket.
If it is necessary to exhibit the newborn baby to revive it, to observe it or to leave that a cutaneous contact is established with the mother, a source of radiant heat must be used to warm it.
The hypothermia talks each other warming the newborn baby in the incubator or under a source of radiant heat, with a mechanism programmed to support a cutaneous temperature of 36,5 °C.
HYPOGLYCEMIA
The hypoglycemia is the presence of a glucose (sugar) in blood abnormally low in a newborn baby. The children of diabetic mothers are in special hypoglycemia risk.
The hypoglycemia neonatal can provoke a neurological injury, therefore his prevention or treatment must be as precocious as possible.
CONGENITAL ERRORS OF THE METABOLISM
In the first week of life there is detected, in a sample of capillary blood extracted from the heel of the newborn baby, the presence or absence of some congenital metabolic illnesses (fenilcetonuria, hipotiroidismo, tirosinosis, homocistinuria, galactosemia, etc). Some of them are friendly before they produce irreversible damages.
OTHER ANOMALIES OF THE NEWBORN BABY
- Hyperglycemia. Glycemia (sugar in blood) high. It usually owes to hospitable treatments (wheys, etc)
- Hipocalcemia. Calcium low in blood. It affects especially children under intensive cares neonatales.
- Hipernatremia. High sodium in blood. The most frequent cause is the called hypertonic dehydration, and a relatively frequent cause of this type of dehydration is the bad preparation for some parents of the formulae of adapted milk (powdered milk excess for water measurements).
- Hiperbilirrubinemia. To see JAUNDICE NEONATAL AND FOTOTERAPIA.
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