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Smell in Preterm Newborn

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İstanbul Bilim Üniversitesi, Sağlık Hizmetleri Meslek Yüksekokulu,Şişli/ İstanbul

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İstanbul Universitesi Florence Nightingale Hemşirelik Fakültesi, Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı,Şişli/ İstanbul

Arch Health Sci Res 2017; 4: 272-276
DOI: 10.17681/hsp.277840
Keywords : Smell, preterm newborn
Read: 3013 Downloads: 968 Published: 15 December 2019

Nearly 140.000 preterm infants are born every year. Preterm infants spend their first few weeks or months of life outer environment which is more stressful (overstimulation, frequent hand-touch, painful procedures, remaining separate from the mother) than intrauterine environment due to its nature. Particularly pleasant and familiar scents are known to facilitate the psychophysiological adaptation of preterm infants to the environment for the first time and it is reported that it forms part of the binding event. Increasing number of studies in recent years report physiological variables that occur during inhalation of odors for both term and preterm infants. For example, its indicated that lemon-flavored cotton swab regulates the breathing of babies. Vanilla reduces the rate of apnea and prevents bradycardia. But its emphasized that the method for neonates should be studied more and impacts of the different odorants should be observed.

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