Early babies in Brazil have the effects of coronavirus, even when they are free of copper

Due to his refusal, he has left medical professionals without assistance in order to care for patients who do not have adequate resources for prevention or treatment. Brazil has had more than 16.7 million cases in the entire pandemic, with a daily death rate of about 2,000. Although they are less than the daily high of 4,000 in the second wave of April, it is still one of the highest in the world.

While the quality and availability of health care may be as different in countries as Brazil, the best medical facilities in the country have also collapsed, and only good sites like São Paulo have had a rebound.

Six months after the Amazon oxygen crisis, mothers and babies continue to have consequences.

Care complications

Every year, about 340,000 babies are born in Brazil earlier than 37 weeks. The rate in Europe is double and, accordingly World Health Organization (WHO), the 10th largest number of premature births in the world. Many crucial methods of caring for these babies, such as early breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact with parents, are maintained in hospitals across the country, although they prove to be much more at risk than growth, development and survival requirements. -19.

Although the number of advanced births in Brazil by 2020 is yet to be released, experts like Denise Suguitani – a nonprofit prematurity creator and director, the only NGO in the country to help early babies and their families – suspect there will be growth. than in previous years.

Prenatal care can prevent many mothers from giving birth prematurely, but covid-19k is hopeful that parents who skip visits to these doctors are much greater. According to a study by the author Brazilian Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Associations In July and August last year, 81% of obstetricians / gynecologists consulted that their patients were concerned about hiring kobid-19 at prenatal appointments.

“Pre-birth appointments identify the risks of having an early birth,” Suguitani says. “So if a pregnant woman sells an appointment or an exam, she will be left with no problems that could lead to a premature birth during pregnancy.”

Hiring covid-19 during pregnancy can also be a factor in preterm birth. According to pediatrician and neonatologist Rossiclei Pinheiro of the Federal University of Amazon, premature birth can begin when an inflammatory reaction caused by coronavirus — or any other type of infection — can appear in the amniotic membrane, and can lead to early rupture.

In other cases, mothers were forced to give birth to babies with covid-19.

“When the mother has a concussion and ends up with breathing problems, the baby could suffocate in utero,” says Pinheiro.

Risks of contact limitation

During the pandemic, hospitals have limited NICU visitors, and some staff have even stopped parents from touching their babies. Pinheiro and other experts say the approach is wrong.

Since the skin-to-skin relationship is especially important, it is important for the newborn to rest on the breast with a parent. It is called kangaroo care and has been shown to reduce infant mortality by 40%, hypothermia by more than 70% and severe infections by 65%. March examination, WHO and partner researchers found that kangaroo care has a higher chance of survival for babies born to much-infected mothers, and that the benefits are far greater than the low risk of dying from the virus.

Carla Luana da Silva, a 27-year-old woman from the state of São Paulo, was not only prevented from practicing kangaroo care with her very early baby, she was blocked from having any contact with him. Da Silva says the baby was the hardest part of her 81-day stay at the NICU.