Study: Premature babies with moisturizing oils may reduce mortality

A study conducted by U.Sresearchersahospital in Bangladesh found that applying sunflower oil or Aquaphor moisturizing oil to the skin of premature babies in theofhospitals can reduce mortalityDrGary Darmstedt of the Johns Hopkins-Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States says one of the main reasons for the high prevalence and mortality of premature babies is that their skin barriers are low, and these oils can strengthen the barriers of the skin, protecting cells,reduce water and heat lossResearchers tested 497 premature newborns at 33 weeks pregnant at a hospital in Bangladeshassess the effectiveness of skin barrier therapyIn randomized tests
159 newborns received sunflower oil therapy,157,, and 181 othersas control groups, in addition to daily careThe first two premature babies began to receive a full-body smear
of the moisturizer (
, excluding the face and scalp) within2of life, three times a day for the first two weeks, and then twice a day until dischargeAt the end of the first month, the survival rate of the control group was2
9.4% and the survival rate was 34.
in the group using sunflower oil2
percent, 45.8 percent in the group using AquaphorThe researchers also found that two groups of people who applied moisturizing oil also had fewer cases of sepsis and skin infections than the control groupDarmstedt recommends using low-cost moisturizers such as sunflower oil for premature newborns in hospital in resource-poor environments