Patient's question:
9 days discovered the newborn suffers from laryngeal cartilage development defect, how to care for it, what kind of assistance is needed: How to care for a newborn with laryngeal cartilage development defect, how to treat it?...Doctor's answer:
Diagnosing neonatal cartilage development defect, it is recommended to actively treat. Advice: If the baby is breastfed, regardless of whether the baby has calcium deficiency, the mother should take calcium regularly on a daily basis. If not supplemented, the body will adjust itself to ensure a certain amount of calcium in breast milk, leading to calcium loss in the mother and insufficient calcium content in breast milk, which cannot meet the baby's needs. Generally, before six months, breastfed babies only need the mother to supplement calcium appropriately, and the baby to digest fish oil properly and get enough sunlight. In this case, additional calcium supplementation for the baby is not necessary. However, if the baby has congenital laryngeal stridor, calcium supplementation should be considered. As long as vitamin D is not excessively digested, a slight excess of calcium is usually not a problem, as the excess will be excreted from the body. However, a deficiency can interfere with the baby's growth and development. Experts from the Children's Hospital say that there is no particularly recommended calcium supplement. As long as the baby can digest it and the symptoms improve without excessive constipation, it is a good calcium supplement for the baby. Small babies should avoid using calcium carbonate and should instead digest organic calcium, such as calcium gluconate and calcium lactate.