[Purpose] In Japan, it was customary to bathe newborn babies in warm immediately following delivery. However this practice was reconsidered in 1974, at the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Presently, some institutions do not perform bathing while others continue the practice. Therefore, we conducted a survey in order to identify the sanitary measures currently carried out in the early neonatal stage and determine why they were adopted. The present study also seeks to clarify advice on bathing newborn babies. [Survey method] In May 2007, a survey questionnaire was sent to 59 institutions that handled deliveries in Niigata Prefecture and responses were received from 40 institutions. [Results] The sanitary measures used at birth and during the hospital stay were classified into categories A to E. The most common was category A(72.5%), dry-bathing immediately after birth and daily bathing from the following day. The reason for the sanitary measure taken immediately following birth was to maintain the body temperature of neonates in every category, while from the following day, the reasons differed according to the category, such as to avoid energy consumption, to maintain constant body temperature and condition , and to keep the neonates clean.
早期新生児期における保清方法の実態調査
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