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C Stornowski

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PubMed1983

[Water loss from the skin of preterm and newborn infants under phototherapy with standard-blue-light].

Water loss from the skin of 15 term and preterm newborn infants (gestational age 27-40 weeks; birth weight 670 g to 3,130 g) was measured using the Evaporimeter-method. All babies were treated with standard-blue-light-phototherapy on their first days after birth. The mean value, calculated by a special graphic method (approximation), was 14.3 ml H2O/kg . 24 h (8.8 g H2O/m2 . h) in babies weighing greater than 1,900 g. Below this birth weight the rate of water loss increased markedly up to ten-fold. Altogether there were no critical water losses under phototherapy with standard blue light when only one side of the patient's body was radiated. The values under blue light were a little higher than under daylight-white-phototherapy.

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PubMed1981

[Transepidermal water loss in preterm and newborn infants (author's transl)].

69 measurements of water loss from the skin were made on 57 preterm and newborn babies (gestational age 31-40 weeks; body weight 900 g-350 g) in their first week of life using the Evaporimeter-method. All measurements were made at 18 different skin sites of the naked baby in a standard single-walled incubator. A graphic method described the correlation between transepidermal water loss and body weight. The mean value of water loss in babies weighing greater than 1850 g was 6,6 g/m2h (10,2 ml/kg 24h) and increased up to threefold values when body weights were smaller. A similar course was found during phototherapy: average values of 8 g/m2h (12,7 ml/kg 24 h) were measured in babies weighing greater than 1900 g increasing markedly in lower birth weights. Some single observations are reported.

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[Water loss through the skin and rectal temperature under phototherapy with a doped halide radiating lamp].

A new metal-halid phototherapy-lamp with a bilirubin-effective radiant energy of 11 W/m2 (focus distance 45 cm) was tested with regard to its influence on transepidermal water loss ("TEWL") and rectal temperatures. 23 term and preterm newborn infants (gestational age 28-40 weeks, body weight 980-3450 g) were examined on the first days after birth using the Evaporimeter-method. The mean value of TEWL in babies weighing greater than 2000 g (33 gestational weeks) calculated by a special graphic method (approximation) was 14 ml H2O/kg X 24 h increasing in the smallest babies in an exponential relationship. We recommend to compensate the raised TEWL with 10 ml/24 h and only in preterm babies weighing less than or equal to 1000 g (less than or equal to 28 gestational weeks) with 15 ml/24 h. Rectal temperatures raised only insignificantly under phototherapy.

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