Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Karin Cadwell, Ph.D.
Doctors Nashwa Samra, Amal El Taweel and our own Professor Karin Cadwell
recently published their research findings, “The Effect of Kangaroo
Mother Care on the Duration of Phototherapy of Infants Re-admitted for
Neonatal Jaundice,” in The Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal
Medicine. Out of the 50 jaundiced infants studied at an oasis hospital
in Egypt, those that received intermittent kangaroo mother care (KMC:
held by their mother in skin-to-skin contact which allows on-demand
breastfeeding, among other benefits) required significantly shorter
periods of phototherapy to recover from jaundice. Although further
research is recommended to confirm these results, the study indicates
that KMC is a safe, effective treatment to reduce the duration of
necessary phototherapy and frees up ICU resources for sicker infants.
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