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1000 Points In New Born Care – Part 6

1000 Points In New Born Care

1. Some babies will have fusion of one or two fingers or toes. If it is so, after consulting the children specialist the fused fingers or toes should be operated to separate them.
2. Normally the foreskin of the male new born babies will look as it closes the external genitalia (Penis). If that skin can not be retracted or if the tip of the penis bulges like balloon while passing urine, after one year of age the foreskin should be cut by a small operation. This operation is called as ‘Circumcision Operation’. Normally, muslims do this as routine on religious grounds.
3. If the new born body is blue in colour with difficulty in breathing it is a symptom and sign of Heart disease. Such babies needs immediate medical attention.
4. Breast milk is the best milk on the earth. None is equivalent to it. It is sterile, clean and provides adequate nutrition and energy to the newborn baby, moreover, it is easily available and also economical.
5. Artificial milk powders in the tin should be prepared as formula feed under strict sterile measures. Or else the babies may be affected with loose motion.
6. Very few babies may not tolerate the sugar in the breast milk. The sugar in the breast milk is called as ‘Lactose’. Those babies who are intolerant to the Lactose will have loose stools as soon as breast milk is fed. This is called as ‘Lactose intolerance’ such babies will need Lactose free special formula feed. Even in such babies the breast milk should not be stopped immediately. If continued, breast feeding aggrevate loose stools breast milk has to be stopped.
7. Sometimes the lactose intolerance may be subsequent to the bacterial infection of the intestines and it will be transient. So in such cases temporary withholding of Breast milk may be adequate.
8. New born babies and babies less than one year of age (infants) may have incessant cry, mostly in the evening hours. This cry is due to the colicky pain in the abdomen. It is called as Infantile colic. This pain can be treated with medium advised by the doctors.
9. Premature or pre term babies and Low Birth weight babies are prone to loose their body temperature rapidly and will go in for a condition called as Hypothermia. In this condition, the body temperature of the babies will be subnormal. So, these babies should be fully covered and kept. They should be worn with winter clothes like woollen sweater, cap and even stockings.
10. If babies are too premature and are very much low in birth weight, those babies should be kept in ‘Incubator’ which provides congenial temperature and atmosphere for the babies.