What to do if your baby has a blood infection?

Premature babies are more likely to suffer from blood infections after birth. Once a blood infection occurs, it can easily lead to sepsis in the child, which is very harmful to the child. Once a systemic infection or brain infection occurs, it may even pose a great threat to the child's life safety. This is also an important cause of death in children. In this case, anti-inflammatory treatment must be carried out in time.

What to do if your baby has a blood infection?

There is no such diagnosis for neonatal blood infection. It may refer to neonatal sepsis, which refers to a systemic infection caused by bacteria invading the blood and multiplying in it during the neonatal period. In general, the most worrying thing is encephalitis, but it is not necessarily the case. The treatment time depends on the pathogen. If the pathogen is unknown, antibiotics should be used for 2 weeks.

What causes blood infection in premature babies?

Premature infection is the main cause of increased morbidity and mortality in premature infants. In particular, intrauterine infection caused by viruses not only causes infection in premature infants, but can also cause deformities and serious long-term effects. The three important links of premature infant blood infection include: host, pathogen, and transmission route. These three stages of the premature infant period have their own particularities.

1. Systemic symptoms: often no specific manifestations, often confused with other diseases, such as respiratory system and nervous system diseases. It is generally manifested as: ①

Mental state: may be irritable for a short time, then turn into weak reaction, drowsiness, weak crying or even coma; ② Complexion: dark, yellow, blue, white or purple in severe cases; ③

Sucking: The sucking force weakens, the amount of milk sucked is small, and even milk refusal occurs. Often have nausea, vomiting and diarrhea; ④ Activity: cry and move more when irritable, but soon move less, or even do not move; ⑤

Body temperature: A few may have fever, but most have normal or low body temperature, and the temperature fluctuation does not exceed 1°C within 24 hours. Premature, low-birth-weight, and seriously ill infants do not have a rise in body temperature, and may have hard swellings and low temperatures in their hands and feet; ⑥ Weight: does not rise or falls; ⑦ Peripheral circulation: poor peripheral circulation, dark and mottled skin, it takes more than 2 seconds for abdominal skin to return to its original color, and cold hands and feet; ⑦ Jaundice: yellow and dark gray skin.

2. Local symptoms: Careful examination may reveal local lesions, which are commonly found in the navel, skin, ears, nail grooves, eyes, mouth, or birth injury sites. Also pay attention to visceral diseases, such as lung, liver, meningitis, urinary tract infection, birth canal infection, etc.