3/9/11

Causes of neonatal sepsis and its prevention

Neonatal sepsis is a common, severe bacterial infectious diseases in neonatal period is due to bacterial invasion of blood circulation and blood in the growth, reproduction, produce toxins which cause. Morbidity and mortality rates are high, active resistance such as early treatment can cure infection.


Sepsis of newborn jaundice may appear as the original increase, temperature instability most heat, but sometimes elevated body temperature normal or not. Common symptoms such as vomiting, anorexia, diarrhea, irritability or drowsiness, crying disturbed, and even convulsions. Premature infants may show looked low ash, general weakness, sucking weakness, crying, on a variety of stimulus are low response State.


Susceptibility to sepsis of newborn mainly for the following reasons:


1, newborn\'s skin, mucous membranes and thin tender, easily damaged; not healing umbilical bacterial invasion of Portal; more main immunologic function in newborns with low infection not limited, when the bacteria from the skin, mucous membrane after entering the blood circulation, could easily spread to the whole body caused by septicemia.


2, when a mother suffering from infectious diseases during pregnancy, some bacteria and their toxins can be transmitted through the placenta to the fetus, this newborn pathogenesis of more than 48 hours after birth.


3, when the delivery of the fetus, because maternal amniotic membrane of membranes, sheep lax disinfection of water pollution, prolonged labour, delivery process, may increase the chances of infection, neonatal sepsis caused by.


4, newborn response capacity is low, when you have some local infection, has not been detected, such as Omphalitis, stomatitis and skin small pustules, purulent heads prickly heat, eyelid inflammation, may become the focus, if not treated in time, you can develop sepsis.


Prevention newborn sepsis to note Wai during perinatal period health, actively control pregnant women infection, case fetal in Palace within infection; in delivery process in the should strictly implementation no bacteria operation, on delivery room environment, and rescue device, and recovery instruments, to strictly disinfection; on early breaking water, and stage too long, and Palace within asphyxia of newborn, was born Hou should for prevention sexual treatment; do newborn nursing work, should special note protection good skin, and mucosa, and umbilical Department from by infection or injury, and should strictly implementation disinfection isolation system.


When the nursing newborn, to look carefully to eat, sleep, has no such exception performance as possible early detection of minor foci of infection, timely treatment, so as to avoid spread of infection.

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