Blue children, it is the natural color or is anomaly
A birth is considered for many families as a reason for immense joy. The new parents or reiterating in the process, welcome a new family member and bring with them one more person to experience what it is to live in this world. However, everything does not always go well, sometimes you have to deal with certain events that occurred before, during or after birth.
The unplanned alterations that require attention in the course of the initial years of life of the infant, this requires special attention. An example is cyanosis, congenital heart disease that is characterized by the fact that the child is born with a bluish tone, which causes a great scare to parents. Power and being able to understand this problem means better help from everyone at home. Pay attention to the characteristics of this heart problem will determine the severity of the same and the treatment that is required.
Cianosis or also known as blue baby syndrome, is a heart problem produced by hypoxia, is when the blood that reaches the entire body does not have the necessary oxygen levels. (Medicine, 2012) which is causing the body to acquire a bluish color, a symptom that most characterizes this anomaly. There are cases in which it can be caused by a garment that is used in the child which hinders circulation in a limb, for example a sock with an elastic that tightens more than it should or by the existence of an object as a bracelet thathinders blood passage towards the baby’s hand. The effect of cyanosis can also occur in the oral region of the neonate, specifically on the lips, in the mucous membranes of the neonate, sometimes happens on the fingers of the feet and hands, depends on the situation in which theBlue-Moada Coloring (Lapsus Medicus, 2016).
Another cause can be due to a bruise or trauma after a fall or light asphyxiation. However, the cause that requires more attention and review by parents is a heart disease which prevents the child’s circulatory system from transmitting the necessary oxygen to the rest of the body, therefore the neonate’s blood will have a state of hypoxia (Bustos, 2016).
The human acquires cyanosis when it is born with a cardiac defect which is characterized by making the vital fluid find high amounts of carbon dioxide (CO₂) located in the right ventricle of the heart between directly to the left ventricle, thus skipping theHematosis process, process by which blood with carbon dioxide (CO₂) changes its condition and becomes oxygenated;In this way it meets the route and reaches the left ventricle with oxygen to proceed to distribute for the entire body (Institute, 2015). When this process does not only occur, non -oxygenated blood is mixed with oxygenated and pumps the rest of the organism without having been treated using the hematosis process.
The oxygenated blood that is pumped to the entire human body has a characteristic color, the "live red" while the non -oxygenated blood or carbon dioxide possessor (CO₂) has an effect of "dark red", the same as to the same as to theGathered with the skin manages to obtain the particular blue-muddy coloration effect of cyanosis.
There are causes studied in the field of cardiology within scientific medicine that manage to explain this anomaly in human;Some of them are: the tricuspid valve, who is responsible for being present among the 2 cameras located on the right side of the heart, which can be absent or sometimes fails to open what is necessary. The pulmonary valve is located between the heart and the lungs, in the same way it can be found in an absent state or not open enough (C. Paulina Casanueva, 2015). The aortic valve, located between the heart and the blood vessels that distribute blood to the rest of the body, in some cases it does not open completely. The greatest thickness in the blood is the rarest cause considered within the studies, because it causes peripheral blood circulation slow enough accompanied by a blood oxygenation that is not recommended, thus producing a beginning of cell death due to the lack ofIrrigation that organs dependent on vital fluid such as blood, need to fulfill their functions every day (McGee, 2012).
At the time that deoxygenated hemoglobin in the neonate’s blood reaches between 4-6 dl, it is when the symptoms and aspects that characterize cyanosis can be seen or detected in the system (Medlineplus, 2013). Based on medical studies, 80% to 87% oxygen congestion gives the opportunity to clinically proven cyanosis. In the same way when there are cases of anemia hemoglobin levels are low there.D.A.M., 2017).
To deal with this anomaly, the severity and origin of it mustfrom birth. In children cyanosis can be shown in two different ways: the first known as peripheral cyanosis is the one that affects the color of fingers and nails, which is capable of spreading to the complete hands and feet. The second known as central cyanosis is characterized by the lack of oxygen (O2) in the arteries, it usually occurs due to alterations in the function of the lungs or lung or by some congenital heart disease. The type of cyanosis that is that affects the limbs of the body which is caused by the decrease in peripheral blood flow that is caused by the baby’s exposure, heart failure or venous obstruction (Pinzón, Central and Peripheral Cyanosis, 2016).
The doctor in charge of treating the blue coloration case in the child or the newborn is responsible for performing a thorough examination of the history of the affected party, thus checked if there was any complication before, during or after the lighting by caesarean section or by vaginal deliveryor eutócico, among other names that it carries the same (Garbutt, 2019);The different tests that will be carried out in the child will testify to the specific cause, among the tests is a blood test that aims to verify the oxygen level that the blood entails, in the same way a chest x -ray throughwhich is determined and verified the status of the lungs and echocardiographies that have the function of indicating the blood pumping rhythm of the heart of the affected.
It has been determined by a retrospective study that includes all children or newborns (RN) that have been diagnosed and hospitalized on multiple occasions due to blue coloration in some anatomical part of their body, which is the result of an anomaly Lawhich is produced by some congenital heart disease, by some action of a pathological factor or by the different complications that exist before, during and after the process of cesarean section or normal birth, medically known as eutotic delivery;This condition is named cyanosis.
It is essential to understand its origin, what are the factors that give sufficient impulse to be presented and what is the possibility together with the necessary knowledge to be able to prevent or treat it while going to a specialist doctor, in the case of first -time parents orreiterating that do not handle any previous experience or knowledge regarding an anomaly that is able to give it a blue pigmentation effect on the skin of the child or newborn (RN) so that they are able to make an assessment and determine the levelof medical assistance required by the minor in case of being produced by a physiological or pathological factor, currently acquiring this information and reaching a partial or total understanding of it depends on the will of the parents for having a prevention and careof the child in order to avoid bad practices at the moment that requires immediate attention the child because of this anomaly.
Managing the topic with determination current or future procreators will be more prepared to receive a new life in this world or know how to take care of it throughout its stage of anatomical development, that is, during all their period of growth;Emotional stability and commitment to the family is a primary factor for the prompt recovery of this condition that can be present in any life of this world.
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