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Thanks to the ‘healer’ for treatment, the 16-day-old child was hospitalized in critical condition

03/26/2022 13:26 GMT+7

Due to the cold weather, the family let both mother and baby steam coal according to the concept of folk care. After 3 days, the child showed signs of coughing, wheezing, difficulty breathing, sucking less, crying continuously, and had to be taken to the hospital for emergency care.

On March 26, Nghe An Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital said that it had just received a case of a child with HFMD (16 days old, residing in Ha Tinh), hospitalized with poor feeding, cough, shortness of breath, and cyanosis. , lethargy, on the skin there are many bruises, needles on the chest, abdomen, neck, back.

After examining and doing tests, listening to the lungs with poor ventilation, the child was diagnosed with respiratory failure – severe pneumonia, monitored for blood infection.

Nghe An: Newborn baby suffers from respiratory failure, blood infection because of coal smoke, ritual ceremony
The baby’s health is more stable, but the pneumonia is not over yet.

The child’s family said that when he was born, the baby was completely healthy. However, when they returned home from the hospital, due to the cold weather, the family had both mother and baby steam coal according to the local care routine. After 3 days, the child showed signs of coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, little feeding, constant crying.

Thinking that the child was infected, the family invited “the healer” to the ceremony for the baby. However, the crying condition in the child still did not decrease, the child cried more, showed signs of cyanosis, fatigue, stopped nursing, so the family rushed to take the child to the hospital.

After admission, the patient was treated with antibiotics, endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. Now, the baby’s health is more stable. However, the pneumonia is not over yet, the child still has to continue to be monitored and treated.

BSCKII. Truong Le Thi – Head of Neonatal Emergency Resuscitation Department, Nghe An Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital recommends that when it is cold, parents can keep their children warm by wearing warm clothes, hats and socks; absolutely do not let the child lie down because the skin of a newborn is very thin and easily damaged. CO gas when burning coal can cause asphyxiation if lying in a closed room, causing damage to the immature respiratory system in children.

“The hospital has received many children with inflammation and infection from the ‘celebration’ wounds. There have been many tragic cases when parents believed in the words of the ancients, brought their children to treatment in a state of consciousness, lethargy, pale skin, and many “feast” marks on the back, which were still swollen and swollen. signs of infection. The reason is that many families worry when they see their children cry a lot because of the tongue or twist their bodies to sleep because of the dark hair, so they think about worshiping according to folk beliefs for children, “said Dr. Please share more.

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