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Not full-term children

The child name not full-term if he was born before the termination of term of pre-natal development in weight more low 2500 g and in the length of a body less than 45 the Medical statistics see notices, that there were many cases when it was possible to keep a life to the child who was born in weight 900 and even 600

At such weight and growth of function of all organs of not full-term child appear are underdeveloped, therefore to antenatal to existence the child happens is a little fitted. At not full-term children along with the general delicacy the thermoregulation is broken. At such children the temperature equally quickly can raise to 40 °C; or fall to 35 °C. The more low weight of the child, the more strongly at it instability of a body temperature and its predilection to appreciable fluctuations is expressed. Breath - at not full-term children superficial, becomes perceptible bent to asphyxia (dyspnea). Because their immunity is sharply lowered, the most frequent diseases at such children in the first months of a life are infections of respiratory tracts.

Chronic female inflammatory diseases of a uterus and ovaries, multifetal pregnancy, serious infectious diseases in pregnancy, a mental or physical trauma can be the prematurity reasons. Certain value has a defective food of mother during pregnancy, a disadvantage of its diet of vitamins C, E and A.

Not full-term children, except low weight and small growth, such signs as weak development of a subcutaneously-fatty fat, the skin of the newborn is insufficiently elastic and covered by germinal hair distinguish. Skull bones are easily mobile, the small fontanel is almost always open, the big fontanel owing to shift of bones can be less usual.