Posted August 15, 20195 yr Much respect to this amazing society Is there any specific considerations in managing neonatal respiratory distress in infant of smoker mother ? Thanks in advance
August 15, 20195 yr 20 hours ago, Dr.Smah said: Much respect to this amazing society Is there any specific considerations in managing neonatal respiratory distress in infant of smoker mother ? Thanks in advance The problem with this population is seldom in the ICU setting (assuming people are not actually smoking in your ICU), however, from my experience as a house officer on a children's hospital pulmonary ward, certainly children with BPD will suffer from a home environment full of smoke (it certainly felt like many of the BPD 'frequent flyers' had parents who smoked while the pulmonary fellows would insist that their BPD clinics were not like this).
August 16, 20195 yr @Dr.Smah Do you mean acute management in nicu for babies whom there mothers are smokers..?
August 16, 20195 yr Author 32 minutes ago, tarek said: @Dr.Smah Do you mean acute management in nicu for babies whom there mothers are smokers..? Yes exactly Dr
August 18, 20195 yr Same here - although maternal smoking is less prevalent nowadays, we have/do not managed infants differently. Although smoking is related to preterm birth as such (see for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15901269) - my personal experience is not that maternal smoking would (as such) relate to severity of respiratory morbidity.
August 18, 20195 yr Author Thank you all for replay ..I just noticed that respiratory distress unfortunately I see in infants of smoker mothers was more severe and not easily controlled like non smoker mothers .
August 19, 20195 yr Same here in Japan, as well as in our unit in Canada, no special management for preterm infants of smoking mothers. Although we have a concern towards smoker parents when they visit their babies in the NICU, we do ask them not to smoke before coming to the NICU and to wear newly washed cloth which doesn't have smoking smell in them.
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