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What Causes Getting Cold And Fever Often?

sir, i am haveing twins which are born on 02/10/2014 who are premature babies of 27 weaks and boy : 1.2kg and girl 1.3 kg and till now their are haveing repetaed infections for Boy: mainly mouth infections where are using vitamin c and for girl : repeted cold and cough and fever , this cold and cough are coming for boy at a frequncy of every 30 days and for girl for every 20 days its being very defficalt for us to look after can u give me better solution to get rid after this
Mon, 15 Sep 2014
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Preterm low birth weight babies are very much prone to infections as there immune system is very poor. they are also very prone of getting cold as they cannot maintain their body temperature... First thing you have to do is always monitor their body temperature. A easy technique is to see whether the temp of hands , feet are same as over abdomen. if not your babies ae suffering from cold stress. keep them well wrapped and feed them frequently..Once weight of the babies crosses 2.5 kgs all these problems will come down.
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What Causes Getting Cold And Fever Often?

Preterm low birth weight babies are very much prone to infections as there immune system is very poor. they are also very prone of getting cold as they cannot maintain their body temperature... First thing you have to do is always monitor their body temperature. A easy technique is to see whether the temp of hands , feet are same as over abdomen. if not your babies ae suffering from cold stress. keep them well wrapped and feed them frequently..Once weight of the babies crosses 2.5 kgs all these problems will come down.