About 10 percent of annual births throughout the world is for premature babies , according to the last year of the World Health Organization ( WHO ), a rate in Spain is between 7 and 8 percent, says the vice president of the European Union Neonantología and Perinatal Medicine, Dr. Manuel Sanchez Luna, on the occasion of International Children Premature, held this week.
Given that the concept is that premature infants born before 37 weeks of pregnancy, it is a broad and multifaceted, but, according to Europa Press said, "infants of concern are those that are well below this gestational age, at least those who are born before 26 weeks with less than 750 grams, because they are what is more sequels and less likely to survive. "
When you are born in the 26 weeks the chances of survival are at 60 percent, while in 23 the chances are almost nil.
Thus, between 26 and 23 weeks were these specialists accumulate major problems in treating these children. In these cases, the fundamental problem is that when you are born very immature, there is no complete development of body, so even if they are able to survive, their development will be completely different from what occurs in the womb.
"They will cause hormonal problems, growth and development", he warns, if prematurity has been produced by a direct problem of the fetus or the mother, including an infection, "logically increases the risk of sequelae."
Thus, the consequences are clearly related to the development of the nervous system, and therefore has greater risk of neurological disability, neurosensory and motor, also more likely to have breathing problems at birth and growth, the latter also occurs more slowly, both in weight and height. In addition, increasing infectious problems at birth.
Children born between 26 and 28 weeks also require hospitalization and are at risk for problems in the short to medium term, "but are smaller." In this case the chances of surviving more than 90 percent and virtually, 60 percent have no sequelae. However, "require very special care since the early days and their growth during the first years."
Also, "children born around 37 weeks generated an important hospital and healthcare costs." These children, although they appear prepared to survive outside the uterus of the mother, are immature and, above all, they must face adjustment problems.
In general, he says, "the survival of these children has increased dramatically, the population living is higher, it has also increased the percentage of children with sequelae, but these are also milder."
"You can say that in Spain survive more than 85 percent of children with less than 1.5 kg and up to 50 percent have no consequences," naturally mortality and sequelae are increasing as they are reducing the weeks of gestation .
