Physiological Periostitis in a Premature Baby

Physiological periostitis in a 2.5-month-old baby.

Periosteal reaction has different etiologies in early infancy. Physiological periostitis is a well-documented X-ray finding seen in both preterm and term babies aged between 1-6 months and can easily be misdiagnosed as child abuse or pathological periostitis. Here, we present a 2.5-month-old infant admitted with a history of fever, swollen right upper arm after vaccination and X-rays findings r...

Physiological periostitis; a potential pitfall.

CASE 1 A 3 month old infant was admitted with a 24 hour history of reluctance to move her right leg. There was no history of trauma, fever, or malaise. A radiograph of the right leg was reported to show a periosteal reaction at the lateral aspect of the femur consistent with a fracture. The parents could not explain the suspected injury and a Child Protection investigation was done which found ...

Kangaroo Care of Premature Baby

مقدمه: تولد یک نوزاد نارس تنش زیادی را برای والدین به همراه دارد. از جمله این موارد می توان نگرانی ازعوارض زایمان زودتر از موعد، احساس گناه مادر به دلیل احساس ناتوانی در به ثمر رساندن و تکمیل دوران بارداری، دور نمودن نوزاد از مادر بلافاصله پس از تولد برای مدت طولانی و مبهم بودن روند صحیح تکاملی را نام برد.

Premature baby statistics.

For 27 years annual figures have been kept of all infants weighing 2500 g or less born in the maternity department of the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield. The initial neonatal mortality rate (death within the first four weeks after birth) was then around 30% and is now 10%. This reduction is partly due to a decreased mortality rate among the individual weight groups but also to an increasi...

The Premature Baby