Premature Infants

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  Indian Student Designs Cardboard Baby Incubator in UK

  An Indian student has developed a low-cost cardboard baby incubator that could help save millions of lives in countries like India which lack grassroots-level infrastructure for neonatal care of premature and underweight infants.

• Fortified breast milk improves growth

  Adding a multi-nutrient supplement to breast milk may improve the nutrient intake and growth of a premature infant.

• Preterm infants need monitoring after vaccination

  After premature infants have been vaccinated at around two months of age, they should be careful monitored because there's a heightened risk of heart and respiratory side effects. Researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, studied 239 preterm infants who had being vacci and observed that in a few, cardiorespiratory...

• Enriched formula not needed for premature infants

  Enriched milk formula is no better than standard formula for feeding pre-term infants after hospital discharge.